---
title: "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on network drive"
date: "2013-06-24"
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Just setting up a backup drive for a VPS and needed to remember about the default missing NFS software which means that you get an error running a mount on system:

```
root@server:~# echo "7126679-hostbackup.com:/backups/11.22.33.44 /backups nfs rw,hard,intr,noexec,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nfsvers=4,noatime,_netdev,nolock 0 0" >> /etc/fstab; mount -a
```

Resulting in:

```
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 7126679-hostbackup.com:/backups/11.22.33.44,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might
       need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so
```

With a simple install of the `nfs-common` package we can get this up and running without issue:

```
apt-get install nfs-common
```

Running `mount -a` then correctly mounts the network volume, in this case used for backups.