New here(and to Linux), hope someone can help me. I'm trying to mount two HDDs that come from a FreeBSD box (mainboard died) on my freshly installed Ubuntu (16.04). I get the following error...
tv@Media-Centre:~$ sudo mount -r -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2 /dev/sdb /home/tv/ufs_mount
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so.
Any pointers please?
/dev/sdb refers to a whole disk, whereas file systems typically reside inside disk partitions. There should be more device nodes with the same prefix and a numerical suffix: /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2, and so on. Consequentially, the device path given to mount command should be like this:
sudo mount [OPTIONS...] /dev/sdb1 /path/to/mountpoint
You can explore the partition geometry and file system types with blkid or lsblk -f:
sudo blkid /dev/sdb*
sudo lsblk -f /dev/sdb
