Setup external HD with ext4

[harmenzon]

Hi All,

Apologies for this basic question, but i could not find the answer on the net.

I had successfully setup a sabnzbd, sickbeard and couchpotato server with an external usb pen-drive.
The pen-drive was formatted as VFAT.
But now I am trying to replace the small pen-drive with an 1TB external hard drive. Because I intend to download large movies, I formatted the drive as ext4.

The problem now is that I can not get to mount the external hard drive.

The old command for the pen-drive was:
sudo mount -t vfat -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /var/multimedia/

Now I try:
sudo mount -t ext4 -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda5 /var/multimedia/

Resullting in the following error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Any ideas?
Or even any link to get knowledge on how to setup an ext4 formated external hard drive on a raspberry pi?
Thanks!

[jamesh]

First, are you sure sda5 is the external HD?

[harmenzon]

blkid
/dev/mmcblk0p1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="9DCF-4197" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: UUID="f10ba0bd-17e0-4800-b0af-19bb2ed45acd" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="f85f92e9-bcbc-cd01-905f-92e9bcbccd01" TYPE="ext4"

I rather change this to sda1 though, but don't know how to do this either...

[RaTTuS]

sudo fdisk -l
how is the HD powered
has it been formatted
then you should be able to
mount /dev/sda1 /var/multimedia

[harmenzon]

how is the HD powered - it is powered with an external power adapter.
has it been formatted - using MiniTool Partition Wizard (Windows 7)

maybe it is better to reformat using commands?
Can anyone give me the format instruction for ext4 using command line?
Thanks.

[harmenzon]

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 121008 cylinders, total 7744512 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000dbfc6

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 122879 57344 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 122880 7744511 3810816 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 808.9 GB, 808888614912 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 98341 cylinders, total 1579860576 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x44349f34

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1985 1579847679 789922847+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2048 1579847679 789922816 83 Linux

[RaTTuS]

sudo fdisk -l
this will show you all the partitions and drives
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/partitionname will make the partition as ext4

[harmenzon]

should sda1 and sda5 not be merged together first?

[harmenzon]

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 121008 cylinders, total 7744512 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000dbfc6

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 122879 57344 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 122880 7744511 3810816 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 808.9 GB, 808888614912 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 98341 cylinders, total 1579860576 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
mkfs.ext4: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a
filesystem with 0 blocks, specify higher inode_ratio (-i)
or lower inode count (-N).

thanks for your help!

[RaTTuS]

you need to make partitions
sudo fdisk /dev/sda
then [from memory]
n [for new]
p [primary]
1 [1st partion]
enter [start]
enter [end]
w [write and exit]
then
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

[harmenzon]

Thanks a lot! That worked!

Mount works with:
mount /dev/sda1 /var/multimedia

But not with:
sudo mount -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /var/multimedia/

Hopefully the -o uid=pi,gid=pi part is not that important......

[pluggy]

mount usually supplies sensible defaults. I always use plain old

mount <what> <where>

and it generally works.