[Tfug] mount troubles

[Mr Brevity]

On 9/7/2014 10:16 AM, erich wrote:
>     I have an old PATA disk drive (Seagate ST360021A)
> It was shelved when an old box that I had died.
>
>     I now want to install a new operating system
> on it (Gentoo). Gentoo takes a long time to build/
> configure so I've been unmounting it @ the end of the
> day, & starting where I left off from the previous.
>
>    Unfortunately I'm having trouble remounting this
> drive partition:
>
> %>mount /dev/sda4 /mount/(point)
>
> Returns:
> wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock ... /dev/sda4

Have you tried mounting it with an alternate superblock?

> This is the 2nd time this has happened. The 1st time I
> thought I made some mistake unmounting it, & started
> all over again (Reformatting the partition, installing
> the software & configuring it)
>
> 1) Is the disk drive too old. Should I ge a new one?
>
> 2) Is there some way to recover from the error? (The FBI
> can do it.why can't we?)
>
> Erich
>
> PS: I've been thinking of using my EZ-connect USI-2535
>     to see what I can see.