Author: Erik Christiansen Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] why does mount expect NTFS?
On 10.08.19 21:51, Hendrik Boom wrote: > So I want to find out what's in /dev/sda4 on my hard drive. The
> computer has *never* had Windows on it. So I try to mount it, and am
> told:
>
> april:/farhome/hendrik# mount /dev/sda4 /test
> NTFS signature is missing.
> Failed to mount '/dev/sda4': Invalid argument
> The device '/dev/sda4' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
> Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
> partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way
> around?
> april:/farhome/hendrik#
>
> Why would it try for and NTFS file system on a Linux machine?
To move from speculation to analysis requires information. One way to
read the filesystem type of an unmounted filesystem is with blkid, e.g.:
As you have not specified an fstype in the mount command, it'll normally
use the blkid libraries to discover the fstype in just this way, so
let's see what it finds.