I would say do and fdisk -l /dev/sda and show us the output. then we can see what partitions are where and move on to checking filesystems On Jan 14, 2012 5:11 PM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > 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~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >