mounting external hard drive EXT4: "the unlocked device does not have a reckognizable filesystem on it"?
- by user824924
I'm having problems mounting ext4 partitions(inside a LUKS partition) in external drives. The drives are fine, there is no problem whatsoever with the drives and no filesystem corruption.
This happened since a recent automatic system upgrade, and a manual upgrade to kernel 3.12.0.
It goes like this:
I plug in the external drive
Passphrase is asked for luks device
luks partition correctly unlocked/opened
Instead of proceding with mounting the now exposed ext4 partition there's a pop-up saying: "the unlocked device does not have a recognizable filesystem on it".
Same happens in this case:
$ gvfs-mount -d /dev/sdc2
Enter a passphrase to unlock the volume
The passphrase is needed to access encrypted data on WDC WD250... (250 GB Hard Disk).
Password:
Error mounting /dev/sdc2: The unlocked device does not have a recognizable file
system on it
Doing a manual sudo mount /dev/dm-1 /mnt/testfolder works with no errors and there is no problem with the filesystem (fscked). Also there doesn’t seem to be anything useful written to dmesg when this happens.
What gives?
