| Theodore Ts'o | 010c49c | 2012-03-21 23:40:24 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | ext2fs_open2: The ext2 superblock is corrupt |
| Theodore Ts'o | cd53808 | 2007-09-07 16:54:11 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | ../e2fsck/e2fsck: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... |
| Theodore Ts'o | b4db1e4 | 2011-07-09 12:08:10 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | ../e2fsck/e2fsck: The ext2 superblock is corrupt while trying to open test.img |
| Theodore Ts'o | 1e3472c | 1997-04-29 14:53:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | |
| Theodore Ts'o | c32409a | 2013-12-31 23:02:44 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4 |
| 6 | filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4 |
| Theodore Ts'o | 1e3472c | 1997-04-29 14:53:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock |
| 8 | is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: |
| 9 | e2fsck -b 8193 <device> |
| Theodore Ts'o | c32409a | 2013-12-31 23:02:44 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | or |
| 11 | e2fsck -b 32768 <device> |
| Theodore Ts'o | 1e3472c | 1997-04-29 14:53:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | |
| 13 | Exit status is 8 |