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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> this is my third computer where the BL3 e2fsck is not working correctly. 

The BL3 e2fsck works fine.  The reason it can't check
your BL2 partition is because you created it (mke2fs) 
with the sparse-super flag.  The e2fsck in BL3 pre-dates 
sparse-super partitions, so it doesn't know how to deal 
with them.

The mke2fs (libc5) in BL3 does not create sparse-super 
partitions.  However, more recent mke2fs (glibc2) do 
sparse-super by default.  Therefore, to keep your
partitions compatible between BL2 and BL3, you should
turn off sparse-super in the BL2 mke2fs (-s 0) or use
the BL3 mke2fs.

Cheers,
Steven