The restoration of backup superblocks seems to be reversed in the current e2fsprogs: When running without preen mode, e2fsck searches and locates a backup superblock and fixes the primary superblock without any user intervention. When running in preen mode, e2fsck prints a message describing how the user can specify the location of a backup superblock, and exits without doing any repair. This patch corrects the issue. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <d.drake@xxxxxxx> Index: e2fsprogs-1.39/e2fsck/unix.c =================================================================== --- e2fsprogs-1.39.orig/e2fsck/unix.c +++ e2fsprogs-1.39/e2fsck/unix.c @@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ restart: } else retval = ext2fs_open2(ctx->filesystem_name, ctx->io_options, flags, 0, 0, io_ptr, &fs); - if (!ctx->superblock && !(ctx->options & E2F_OPT_PREEN) && + if (!ctx->superblock && (ctx->options & E2F_OPT_PREEN) && !(ctx->flags & E2F_FLAG_SB_SPECIFIED) && ((retval == EXT2_ET_BAD_MAGIC) || ((retval == 0) && ext2fs_check_desc(fs)))) { - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html