Timeline for Why is my ext4 filesystem recognizable only on the machine it was formatted on?
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| Jan 17, 2014 at 20:03 | history | edited | Faheem Mitha | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited body |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 18:26 | comment | added | SitChris | Oh my gosh I just realized something I've been doing wrong... The raid array is partitioned, I've been assembling the entire /dev/sda disk with mdadm when I should be assembling individual partitions: mdadm -A /dev/sda1 /dev/md5 and mdadm -A /dev/sda2... That doesn't answer the question though. because the non-raid ext4 partition was unrecognized on the good machine, and even if I correctly assemble the raid array, I might not be able to transfer it to a different machine and the different machine be able to recognize the ext4. | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 18:24 | comment | added | SitChris | The encryption thing seems unlikely. It's got a consumer grade gaming motherboard, but I won't rule it out. I tried to access the file system through the raid array by first assembling the raid array, mdadm -A /dev/sda /dev/md5 then mounting the md device mount -t ext4 /dev/md5 /media/seabreeze | |
| Jan 17, 2014 at 4:29 | history | answered | coteyr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |