Re: Corrupted superblock? But disk still mounts.

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On 8/18/14, 3:23 PM, Mark Ballard wrote:
>> I'm guessing that it's the encryption getting in your way.
> 
> Cheers, Eric. Does rather look that way. But for the sake of a user report...
> 
>>
>> How is /dev/sdb1 encrypted?  Usually this is done with something like dm-crypt.
>> Or is it hardware encryption managed in the bios?  Did you unlock it?
> 
> Done with crytpsetup using luks.
> 
>>
>> What does "blkid /dev/sdb1" say?
>>
> 
> It says Luks.

and not ext4 - so you need to unlock it via mumblemumbleLuksStuffmumblemumble
before you can operate on it with e2fsprogs tools.

# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 <name>... or something.  Sorry, I'm not a LUKS
expert...

Anyway, not an ext4 problem.  Your superblock isn't corrupted, it's encrypted.  :)

-Eric

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