On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 18:38:58 +0200, Zavi wrote: > Thank you Ryusuke for the quick reply > > Of course dmesg is the first thing I looked at. > All I see is a not very informative message > > NILFS: Can't find nilfs on dev sdc. > This message is printed when no super blocks are found on the device. Does nilfs-tune command work for the partition ? $ sudo nilfs-tune -l /dev/sdc It tries to read super block, and displays file system information if a valid super block was found. Regards, Ryusuke Konishi > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Ryusuke Konishi > <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 11:10:12 +0200, Zavi wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm trying yo mount nilfs on a device without success. > >> mkfs works just fine, but when I try to mount I keep getting an error > >> > sudo mkfs -t nilfs2 /dev/sdc > >> > sudo mount -t nilfs2 /dev/sdc ~/nilfs > >> mount.nilfs2: Error while mounting /dev/sdc on ~/nilfs: Invalid argument > >> > > > > Were there any related messages in logs? Please try dmesg command or > > make sure system logs: > > > > $ dmesg > > > > or > > > > $ sudo cat /var/log/{messages,syslog} > > > > Regards, > > Ryusuke Konishi > > > >> I've installed nilfs-utils, and this is what I get from fsck > >> > sudo fsck0.nilfs2 -f -v /dev/sdc > >> fsck0.nilfs2: cannot read super block (device=/dev/sdc) > >> > >> just to be sure the problem is not in the device, I mounted ext4 on it > >> successfuly. > >> I can also do block requests (dd, iometer) without a problem. > >> > >> I'd appreciate any suggestion. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Zavi > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in > >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html