Unable to mount USB drive: "wrong fs type"

[ucrbuffalo]

I have been trying to get my USB mounted so I can use it for an SMB share, but keep running into this issue every time. I have formatted the drive to ext4 and when I use

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sudo fdisk -l

I get this result for my drive:

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Disk /dev/sda: 58.8 GiB, 63065554944 bytes, 123174912 sectors
Disk model: Cruzer Fit      
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 2214CEF2-8830-5A40-AF74-E30CBA5AA291

Device     Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1   2048 123174878 123172831 58.8G Linux filesystem

Next I made a directory in the pi user's folder

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mkdir /home/pi/ps2smb

Then I ran

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sudo mount /dev/sda1 ps2smb -o umask=000

This is the point where I am stuck. I don't understand what is wrong with the fs type.

[fbe]

The whole error message is:

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mount: /home/pi/ps2smb: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

You must not use the option "umask=000" when mounting a Linux filesystem.

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sudo mount /dev/sda1 /home/pi/ps2smb

should work.

[thagrol]

As fbe pointed "umask" isn't a valid option for many linux filesystems.

If the optionless mount suggested doesn't work it's unlikely anyone will be able to help further without knowing which "linux filesystem" it actually is. There are many and not all are installed/supported out of the box (i.e. you have to install them).

To find out which you have, try:

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 blkid -o value -s TYPE /dev/sda1

Once you have that, read the "Filesystem Independent Mount Options" section of the man page for mount and the "Mount options for ..." for the relevant filesystem.

You can get the docc by

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man mount

Given your umask option, I'm guessing you want to force full read/write permissions to everyone on that partition all the time, regardless of who created or owns the file/directory.

With the linux/unix security model that's not going to be possible. You can do a recursive chmod a+rwx on the mount point after mounting but any new files or directories will have the default permissions of the person who created them along with that person as the owner and their primary group.

Read up on the linux/unix security model for more info.

The umask option exists for some non-linux filesystem that have no concept of owner, group, and world permissions (or owner and group for that matter) e.g. FAT and some that have some of those concepts but not in a way that can be easily mapped.

[ucrbuffalo]

The umask option exists for some non-linux filesystem that have no concept of owner, group, and world permissions (or owner and group for that matter) e.g. FAT and some that have some of those concepts but not in a way that can be easily mapped.

Oh that makes more sense then. I guess I didn't realize that part. Not using a umask didn't work for me at first either, but I realized that what I wanted to do might not work in Raspbian Lite and switched to full. I followed a very helpful tutorial where I understood 99% of what he was talking about, but didn't realize that's how to do it. I instead mounted the drive in /mnt/usb1 (which I should have thought to do in the first place). The tutorial showed me which step I had missed in the first place which was sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda1 (I thought I had done this step, but hadn't).

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!