>>>>> "TT" == Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> writes:

TT> In general it's safe to quit using ^C.  In your particular case, the
TT> superblock was clearly corrupted before e2fsck started, and so I see
TT> no justification of your assertion that this left your filesystem
TT> "even more wrecked".

Actually comparing fsck.ext4 vs. cfdisk, with cfdisk we pretty much know
when we will be writing our changes to disk. The user guesses that with
fsck.ext4 every step is writing to disk...

TT> I'll leave this bug open and retitle it because we can do a better job
...
TT> in check_super_block().  But that's really all I can really do with
TT> your request.

No problem, glad you found something that could be improved.

TT> I would suggest that you try to figure out what might have happened to
TT> cause this kind of file system corruption in the first place.  Based
TT> on your comment about the mke2fs -c vs mke2fs -c -c, I'm going to
TT> guess you're trying to use some really crappy disk drives or flash
TT> devices?

OK next trip to Taichung I will pick up some 'real brand name' cards and
card readers and promise to stop complaining until then!


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