automount external hdd

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:52:43 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
>On Sun, 2017-08-20 at 06:18 +0000, thufir wrote:
>> I'm trying to auto-mount an external hdd enclosure with nautilus:
>> thufir at doge:~$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
>>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error  
>
>Looks as if the filesystem is not ext3. Try letting mount figure it out
>for itself:
>
>   sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

+1

>If that doesn't work, it may still give you some info about why.
>
>> /dev/sda1  *     2048 156301311 156299264 74.5G 83 Linux  
>
>Type 83 is not, as far as I know, specifically ext3.

That's correct!

You even can't trust the output of

  parted -l

it does display correct ext versions of used, large ext3 and ext4
partitions, but at least very small and unused ext4 partitions are
shown as ext2. It's better to run gparted, to see the correct fs type.