I know there is filesystem there.... I just wrote it. What in the world? dd if=/dev/sda2 bs=16 count=1 | od -a says records in and records out and then so maNY BYTES WERE COPIED IN how much time. . Then it says..... oh how stupid I am! I created the d drive on a logical partition..... sda5 not sda2 hmmmm.... it didn't mount it read-only but I'm getting other errors wh.en I run fsarchiver. This time it says: executing [ntfs-3g -h]. . . command [ntfs-3g -h] returned 9 executing [ntfs-3g -o streams_interface=xattr -o efs_raw -o ro /dev/sda1 /tmp/fsa/20120114-164053-00]. . . command [ntfs-3g -o streams_interface=xattr -o efs_raw -o ro /dev/sda1 /tmp/fsa/20120114-164053-00]. . . returned 0 Analising filesystem on /dev/sda1. . . [error5 (and then it gives a directory that my folks deleted before they gave my brother this computer)] [error5 more text I don't want to type [executing fusermount]. . command fusermount returned 1 executing fusermount -u ]. . . command fusermount -u returned 0 removed This is so frustrating. I can't create an account on the fsarchiver forum so I need to ask you guys. On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Michael Havens > > After searching fir an answer I found mount.ntfs-3g so I type in > > mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /c > > > > and the machine tells me I have an invalid argument. This is strange > > because when I mount sda1 with the same command it does it with no > > problems. > > Is there a filesystem on sda2? If "mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/somewhere" > works and it doesn't work with sda2, then check. Doing "dd if=/dev/sda2 > bs=16 > count=1 | od -a" should return a line or 2 with "N T F S" immediately > visible. > If you get nothing but zeroes, then there isn't an NTFS filesystem there. > Figure out what is there and go from there. If there isn't anything there, > sda2 isn't an extended partition, and you *want* to have an NTFS filesystem > there, mkntfs could do that, but I don't know what Windows would do with > it. > It tends to get irritated when everything isn't exactly like how it > expects. > > Also, when Windows creates more than one partition on a disk, it generally > makes those extra partitions logical, not primary, or at least it *used* > to in > 2000/XP. "fdisk -l /dev/sda" and post the results. > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: