It looks like you have some superblock corruption, since the journal UUID is non-zero, and the journal inode is also non-zero. You can probably use debugfs "ssv" command to clear these fields so that e2fsck doesn't think there is a journal somewhere. Cheers, Andreas > On Mar 15, 2019, at 13:28, Ede Wolf <listac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have to check an ext4 partition, that has been created without a journal. But, as it seems, e2fsck is refusing to check this drive, failing with a "no external journal has been found" error, code 12. That of course is correct, no journal does imply no external journal. > > I am wondering, ^has_journal is well documented in both the mkfs.ext4 manpage as well as tune2fs. So by omitting the journal nothing obscure, hacky or obviously unsupported has been done. > > Why is e2fsck refusing to check the partition? Or what else may I have be doing wrong? > > > ~ # e2fsck -fv /dev/sde1 > e2fsck 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018) > Can't find external journal > > USERDATA: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ********** > > ~ # echo $? > 12 > ~ # > > Filesystem has been created similar to this: > > mkfs -m 0 -O "^has_journal,dir_index,^metadata_csum,64bit,^ext_attr,^huge_file,large_dir,^metadata_csum_seed,^quota,extent" -b 4096 -i 32768 -L USERDATA > > > > ~ # tune2fs -l /dev/sde1 > tune2fs 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018) > Filesystem volume name: USERDATA > Last mounted on: /mnt/userdata > Filesystem UUID: 241d6272-a004-44ef-9998-7fbc3ef98672 > Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 > Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) > Filesystem features: ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype extent 64bit large_dir sparse_super large_file > Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash > Default mount options: user_xattr acl > Filesystem state: not clean with errors > Errors behavior: Continue > Filesystem OS type: Linux > Inode count: 4669440 > Block count: 9338880 > Reserved block count: 0 > Overhead blocks: 1536 > Free blocks: 5602781 > Free inodes: 4247845 > First block: 0 > Block size: 4096 > Fragment size: 4096 > Group descriptor size: 64 > Reserved GDT blocks: 1024 > Blocks per group: 32768 > Fragments per group: 32768 > Inodes per group: 16384 > Inode blocks per group: 1024 > Filesystem created: Wed Jan 30 18:42:35 2019 > Last mount time: Fri Mar 15 20:16:26 2019 > Last write time: Fri Mar 15 20:16:26 2019 > Mount count: 90 > Maximum mount count: -1 > Last checked: Thu Jan 31 18:49:12 2019 > Check interval: 0 (<none>) > Lifetime writes: 204 GB > Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) > Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) > First inode: 11 > Inode size: 256 > Required extra isize: 32 > Desired extra isize: 32 > Journal UUID: 00000000-1b00-0000-0000-000000000000 > Journal inode: 131072 > Default directory hash: half_md4 > Directory Hash Seed: 2416ec00-bef9-437a-a3b1-f626303d72a2 > FS Error count: 41 > First error time: Sun Mar 3 13:15:39 2019 > First error function: ext4_readdir > First error line #: 182 > First error inode #: 3673403 > First error block #: 0 > Last error time: Mon Mar 11 18:22:09 2019 > Last error function: ext4_empty_dir > Last error line #: 2712 > Last error inode #: 639817 > Last error block #: 1 >
