this is what FDC say: based on the error on the screen and what you said you did, it sounds like you forgot to format the drive. after partitioning it you added the line in fstab but since the newly created partition was not yet recognized by the OS, you couldn't format it. then the server was rebooted and when trying to mount the newly added /backup, it failed because it does not contain a valid filesystem. i removed the /backup line from fstab, make sure to format the drive and mount it manually before adding it to fstab again.