Comment 9 for bug 209416

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 209416] Re: fsck not repairing corruption on boot

sam tygier [2008-04-02 1:14 -0000]:
> is there a way to deliberately cause this sort of disk corruption? i had
> a google for way to do it, but is seems that most people want to fix
> corruption ;-)

In my experience, this triggers a fatal error, which is correctable
well:

  sudo tune2fs -s 0 /dev/...; sudo tune2fs -s 1 /dev/...

I. e. flip the 'sparse superblock' bit back and forth.