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SubjectRe: Can't format hard disk
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> 4 root@red:/# mke2fs -c -b 4096 -i 4096 /dev/hdc1
[..]
> Block 0 in primary superblock/group descriptor area bad.
> Blocks 0 through 2 must be good in order to build a filesystem.

This is a bug in e2fsprogs, and has something to do with the,
well, uhm, funny way in which libext2fs keeps track of bad
blocks. This causes mke2fs to think that block 0 is bad when in
fact it isn't.

I'm not sure if it is legal to start a filesystem on block 0,
though.

Cheers
Michiel


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