This morning I noticed one of my drives wasn’t mounted so I attempted to mount manually and got the following error message:

$ sudo mount /dev/sdi1 /mnt/my_drive/

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdi1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog – try
dmesg | tail or so

Strange. Following the messages advice I checked out dmesg:

$ dmesg | tail

[ 213.962722] EXT4-fs (sdi1): no journal found

The Solution

If this happens to you, you can ignore the error and mount in readonly mode using the following command:

sudo mount -o loop,ro,noexec,noload /dev/sdi1 /mnt/your_broken_partition/

Thanks to Computer Forensics for their useful post on this issue.

ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR DATA