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    • e2fsck complains that either super block or partition table is corrupt.

    edited Jan 27, 2025 4:32PM in Linux

    Applies To:

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

    Oracle Linux

    Symptoms:

    While doing a file system check using 'e2fsck', it complains as follows :

    bash-3.2# e2fsck /dev/mapper/vg_name-lv_name
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 66584576 blocks
The physical size of the device is 65798144 blocks
Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!
Abort<y>? yes
The size of the file system does not match the size of the device.
e2fsck fails to read block numbers after the specific size and aborts.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Error reading block <block-number> (Invalid argument) while getting next inode from scan. Ignore error? no
Error while scanning inodes <inode-number>: Can't read next inode
e2fsck: aborted
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