Fixing ‘mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock’ Error

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I added a new hard drive (/dev/sdb) to Ubuntu Server 16, ran parted /dev/sdb mklabel gpt and sudo parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary ext4 0G 1074GB. All went fine. Then I tried to mount the drive 

mkdir /mnt/storage2
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/storage2

It resulted in 

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

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

I tried mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/storage2 with identical outcome. I've done this stuff many times before and have never ran into anything like this. I've already read this mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb on CentOS 6.0 to no avail.

fdisk output regarding the drive

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000 GiB, 1073741824000 bytes, 2097152000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 0E136427-03AF-48E2-B56B-A467E991629F

Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdb1   2048 2097149951 2097147904 1000G Linux filesystem

Best Answer

You still need to create a (new) file system (Double-check that you really want to overwrite current content of the specified partition!)

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

Parted User's manual https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/mkpart.html:

2.4.5 mkpart

Command: mkpart [part-type fs-type name] start end

Creates a new partition, without creating a new file system on that partition.

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