Could it be exfat? I sometimes see NTFS messages appear in syslog when I try to mount exfat drives using pmount.

> On 11 Aug 2019, at 11:51, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> 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?
>
> -- hendrik
>
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