Re: e2fsck malfunction?

[Tim]

On Thu, 2025-03-13 at 16:47 -0700, Dave Close wrote:
> Later, after mounting the ext4 partition on the card under Fedora and
> doing two or three minutes of exploration, I encounter a bad block.
> So I unmount the partition and use e2fsck to locate any bad blocks
> and mark them:
>
> e2fsck -y -c /dev/sdb2
>
> But after that when I try to remount the partition, it seems that
> e2fsck has destroyed the filesystem!

Gonna ask the obvious question, since I haven't noticed it get brought up:

Are you sure you have the file system you think you have?