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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Mark Ballard <markjballard@googlemail.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Corrupted superblock? But disk still mounts.
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:37:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F247D5.4030502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMJSjjuRj5-VNs0TeoMEvrozyeJVQH+BUxsBaqO07WH9eKD88w@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/18/14, 1:14 PM, Mark Ballard wrote:
> Found bad superblock when trying to rename partition using e2label.
> 
> The same problem has prevented me using dumpe2fs, e2fsck and fsck to
> try and resolve the problem.
> 
> But I can still mount the disk and use it.
> 
> The disk is encrypted.

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?

What does "blkid /dev/sdb1" say?

I'm guessing that it's the encryption getting in your way.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-18 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-18 18:14 Corrupted superblock? But disk still mounts Mark Ballard
2014-08-18 18:37 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2014-08-18 20:23   ` Mark Ballard
2014-08-19 14:36     ` Eric Sandeen
2014-08-22 14:19       ` Mark Ballard
2014-08-22 16:09         ` Eric Sandeen
2014-08-22 16:40           ` Mark Ballard
2014-08-22 17:19             ` Darrick J. Wong
2014-08-22 17:38               ` Eric Sandeen
2014-08-22 17:20             ` Eric Sandeen
2014-08-22 18:21               ` Mark Ballard

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