Why fsck fails with "unable to set superblock flags"?
Issue
- Filesystem is unmountable, and fsck fails with the error "unable to set superblock flags"
# e2fsck -y /dev/xyz-vg/xyz-lv
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
/dev/xyz-vg/xyz-lv: recovering journal
e2fsck: unable to set superblock flags on /dev/xyz-vg/xyz-lv
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- ext3/4 filesystem
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