root@dm7080:~# fsck.ext4 -f -v /dev/mmcblk0p2 e2fsck 1.43-WIP (18-May-2015) dreambox-data: recovering journal Superblock needs_recovery flag is clear, but journal has data. Run journal anyway? yes fsck.ext4: unable to set superblock flags on dreambox-data dreambox-data: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ********** root@dm7080:~# root@dm7080:~# mkfs.ext4 -L dreambox-data -U 65e39b99-3b39-4f47-95ac-43aa4eae2b8a /dev/mmcblk0p2 mke2fs 1.43-WIP (18-May-2015) /dev/mmcblk0p2 contains a ext4 file system labelled 'dreambox-data' last mounted on /data on Wed Jul 17 00:56:53 2019 Proceed anyway? (y,n) y Creating filesystem with 442363 4k blocks and 110656 inodes Filesystem UUID: 65e39b99-3b39-4f47-95ac-43aa4eae2b8a Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (8192 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done root@dm7080:~# mkdir /data mkdir: can't create directory '/data': File exists root@dm7080:~# mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /data mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mmcblk0p2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so. root@dm7080:~#