[Discuss] memory stick issue

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 12:34:07 -0400
dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us> wrote:

> moylan cmd[1051] sudo mke2fs -text4 -LBCKUP1n /dev/sdb
> [sudo] password for moylan:

You are creating a file system on the raw device, not on a partition. I
don't know if this is relevant or not, just that it's an uncommon
practice.

> dmesg:
> 1102 [168206.124660] JBD2: no valid journal superblock found
> 1103 [168206.124671] EXT4-fs (sdb): error loading journal

What I think is happening -- or, rather, not happening -- is "mke2fs -t
ext4" creates an ext4 file system without journaling since you didn't
specify "-j" and "-J <options>", and you didn't use mkfs.ext4 which
provides reasonable default options for ext4 file systems.

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