/home can't be mounted (unknown filesystem type 'jmicron_raid_member')

[Christoph Bier]

Rashkae schrieb am 11.12.2007 00:43:

> Christoph Bier wrote:
>> Christoph Bier schrieb am 10.12.2007 19:52:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> Stress and mental pressure make me blind. Now in the shower I had an
>> idea ... Telling mount via the -t option that the filesystem to be
>> mounted is an ext3 filesystem works :-). Though this is a clean
>> workaround (at least at home---I will try it tomorrow at office) I
>> still wonder why
>> 
>> mount /dev/sdb1 /home
>> 
>> suddenly stopped working.
> 
> I'm only guessing here, but I think some of the data in your superblock 
> is corrupt.  The interesting part is why "Jmicron Raid Member" would get 
> stuck in there. It's almost as though a mobo tried to make the USB drive 
> part of a Mobo software raid.

Thanks for your explanatory approach!

> In any case, now that you can mount the drive, I would copy off all the 
> data from it, then do a complete badblocks check.  Assuming the drive is 
> still ok, do a re-partition/re-format.

Ok, I'll do this. But what do you mean by a "complete" badblocks
check? The -f option? (BTW: No need for copying as I'm backing up my
data :-).)

Best wishes!
Christoph
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