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mke2fs Trouble Shooting

NetBSD cannot mount ext2fs: "incorrect super block"

When receiving that error when trying to mount a partition formatted with mke2fs, instead of doing mke2fs <device>, try to type the following command, like I was in this page of the netbsd mailing list:

# mke2fs -r 0 -O none <device>