I changed from Windows Desktop to Ubuntu almost a year ago due to blue screen errors that damaged my productivity. Prior Linux environment experience was on deployment servers, cloud containers and WSL. My other 3 partitions on the hard disk are still NTFS after installing the Ubuntu desktop. I document the issues I face and how I overcome them.
Background
Upon upgrading from Ubuntu 23.01 to Ubuntu 23.10, I encountered a strange error when the Ubuntu desktop GUI file explorer Icon was active and I rushed to check my three partitions. The error read "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error". You can imagine how terrified I was!
Problem
Research
Listing all the block devices showed two device partitions with no mount path with the following command:
lsblk
navigating to the media folder to check the available directories, the two media paths were missing
kesa@KESA-DESKTOP:/$ cd media/
kesa@KESA-DESKTOP:/media$ ls
kesa
kesa@KESA-DESKTOP:/media$ cd kesa/
kesa@KESA-DESKTOP:/media/kesa$ ls
XYZ
Solution
Manually mount the device or partition. Create mount paths with the label of the partition that can be found using lsblk -f
In my case:
kesa@KESA-DESKTOP:/media/kesa$ sudo mkdir WORKSPACE
mount the device partition using the mount command to the newly created mount path
kesa@KESA-DESKTOP:/media/kesa$ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /media/kesa/WORKSPACE
kesa@KESA-DESKTOP:/media/kesa$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/kesa/New\ Volume
change the device name and path in your scenario. Ensure you use the root user when you encounter permission issues. Check final block devices with the list block command.
Using disks application
Turn User Session Defaults Off and click OK
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