Mounting a dataset from AWS

Question

I am trying to mount the Wikipedia Pafe Traffic Statistics Dataset V3, and after following the steps that are indicated in the web side I fail in the last one. After typing the instruction:

mount /dev/sdf /mnt/wikidata

I got all the time the next error, and I don't know how to follow.

mount: /dev/xvdf is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/xvdf,
   missing codepage or helper program, or other error

   In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
   dmesg | tail or so.

Thanks a lot in advance!

P.S.: Just to add some info about the problem. After doing dmesg | tail, that is what I obtained:

[597690.810220] udevd[626]: starting version 173
[597691.355869] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x206d7, pf=0x1, revision=0x70a
[597691.357174] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <[email protected]>, Peter Oruba
[597691.389434] alg: No test for crc32 (crc32-pclmul)
[597693.100615] EXT4-fs (xvda1): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[597693.965499] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[597701.672666] type=1305 audit(1396861711.653:2): audit_pid=1014 old=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
 res=1
[597923.451874] blkfront: xvdf: barrier or flush: disabled; persistent grants: disabled; indirect descriptors: disabled;
[597923.686899]  xvdf: xvdf1

PS2: Ok! I've solved the problem and now it is mounted. After checking with lsblk the available devices i saw:

NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvdf    202:80   0  170G  0 disk 
└─xvdf1 202:81   0  170G  0 part 
xvda1   202:1    0    8G  0 disk /

So mounting xvdf1 instead of xvdc was done!

Answer 1

you cannot mount using /dev/xvdf but you can with the underlying /dev/xvdf1

• run $lsblk and find the volume you wanted to mount

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT xvdf 202:80 0 170G 0 disk └─xvdf1 202:81 0 170G 0 part

• run the correct command sudo mount /dev/xvdf1 /mnt

Answer 2

What worked for me was a little different.

I got the same error when running sudo mount /dev/xvdf data. It turned out I had forgotten to create a file system...

$ sudo file -s /dev/xvdf
/dev/xvdf: data

so I did that next.

$ sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/xvdf

File system created.

$ sudo file -s /dev/xvdf
/dev/xvdf: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=9570ea53-2da5-41ae-a682-7c3044c20bd8 (extents) (large files) (huge files)

Then, unlike the other answers, there was no xvdf1 partition under xvdf...

$ lsblk
NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvda    202:0    0    8G  0 disk
└─xvda1 202:1    0    8G  0 part /
xvdf    202:80   0  100G  0 disk

...but I was able to mount xvdf directly.

$ sudo mount /dev/xvdf /data