Hi. Command executed focusing on an USB device's whole block: # fsck /dev/sdc | sed '1,2d' e2fsck 1.44.3 (10-July-2018) e2fsck: need terminal for interactive repairs: Are printed the very rows aimed not to be printed; then *Sed* behaved according to command sed '1,2!d'. For comparison (*whole* output is here mentioned) : # fsck /dev/sdc fsck from util-linux 2.32.1 e2fsck 1.44.3 (10-July-2018) ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 or e2fsck -b 32768 Unexpectedly there is no mention of the output resulting from the first command. Regards.