fsck fails with illegal bitmap blocks

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Issue

  • File system error checking was failing with error below for both primary as well as backup super-block.
fsck.ext4: e2fsck_read_bitmaps: illegal bitmap block(s) 

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • EXT4

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