Formatting a filesystem failed with error " Read-only file system while setting up superblock"
Issue
- Cannot format filesystem getting below eror.
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
/dev/sdb1: Read-only file system while setting up superblock
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All)
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