Hello. Anyone know to fix "Exiting after unrecoverable error." using mkfs -t reiserfs /dev/sdb3 using mkfs.reiserfs 3.6.25 -error is repeatable: --Glenn # strace -e open mkfs -V -t reiserfs /dev/sdb3 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 mkfs from util-linux 2.23.2 mkfs.reiserfs /dev/sdb3 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/usr/lib64/libreiserfscore.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/lib64/libcom_err.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/usr/lib64/libuuid.so.1", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/lib64/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/lib64/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 mkfs.reiserfs 3.6.25 open("/dev/sdb3", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/proc/mounts", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/etc/mtab", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 Guessing about desired format.. Kernel 4.9.0-3-vanilla is running. open("/dev/sdb3", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/dev/sdb3", O_RDWR|O_EXCL) = 3 open("/dev/sdb3", O_RDWR) = 4 open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 5 Format 3.6 with standard journal Count of blocks on the device: 7079168 Number of blocks consumed by mkreiserfs formatting process: 8428 Blocksize: 4096 Hash function used to sort names: "r5" Journal Size 8193 blocks (first block 18) Journal Max transaction length 1024 inode generation number: 0 UUID: e6999e40-3421-4ddd-9033-d05a038746a6 ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK! ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/sdb3'! Continue (y/n):y Initializing journal - 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100% Exiting after unrecoverable error. +++ exited with 1 +++ # # Tried ext4 -process worked. # # mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb3 mke2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 1770720 inodes, 7079168 blocks 353958 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296 217 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 8160 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done # mount /dev/sdb3 /media/disk3 # umount /dev/sdb3 # Tried reiserfs again -process failed. # mkfs -t reiserfs /dev/sdb3 mkfs.reiserfs 3.6.25 Guessing about desired format.. Kernel 4.9.0-3-vanilla is running. Format 3.6 with standard journal Count of blocks on the device: 7079168 Number of blocks consumed by mkreiserfs formatting process: 8428 Blocksize: 4096 Hash function used to sort names: "r5" Journal Size 8193 blocks (first block 18) Journal Max transaction length 1024 inode generation number: 0 UUID: d867e985-b90a-438d-ba8d-e5a2e4bf699f ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK! ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/sdb3'! Continue (y/n):y Initializing journal - 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100% Exiting after unrecoverable error. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html