On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 07:56:37PM -0600, jd1008 wrote: > I am reporting this on the advice of the Fedora Users Mailing List Member. > > This the mailing list exchange outlining the problem with specifying -S to > mkfs, > and it's subsequent consequences when fsck is run. If none of the possible superblocks are valid when using mke2fs -b <NNN>, there's a good chance that your partition table (or LVM metadata) has gotten corrupted. You should definitely check to make sure the partition setup is sane before trying to use mke2fs -S. It's also true, as Andreas has stated, that with the large number of new file system options and layouts with ext4, mke2fs -S is much more hazardous unless you __really__ know what you are doing. It would probably be a good idea to have some warning messages to that effect in the man page. - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
