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Is it safe to interrupt fsck?
I'm using a 100TB(~2TB used) ext4 HDD for data, but its primary gpt partition table was corrupted so i repair it with the backup partition table via gdisk.
And i tried to mount this disk but failed, ...
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Gparted shows Linux filled less than it actually is. How to fix it?
I've had Ubuntu System with the size of 100 GiB. I've made some manipulations for repairing the system and, as a result, my Linux cannot boot, and GParted shows there are only 1 GiB filled on the ...
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Ubuntu 22-4.3 Boot Issue [duplicate]
I'm not technical but have been using the above for some time now without any issues. However I just tried to start my desktop and got a message at boot up stage talking about "Unexpected ...
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How to solve `fsck:error 2(No such file or directory)` while executing `fsck.ext2` for `/dev/nvme0n1p2`?
I’m facing this error while executing fsck.ext2 for /dev/nvme0n1p2:
fsck:error 2 (No such file or directory)
Can anyone help me out with this?
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Files app aka Nautilus shows lots of strange file icons and is slow
After I ran fsck the Files app aka Nautilus in Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS always takes approx. a minute to startup and then shows approx. 50-100 file icons/symbols in the left sidebar.
How can I get rid of ...
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FileSystem Corrupted
I'm having this issue from a very long time and tried different solutions to address the problem but couldn't find the rootcause on how the FileSystem is getting corrupted.
I have the Ubuntu OS 22.04 ...
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boot ubuntu server from live media to repair previous install
I'm trying to boot ubuntu server from live media. I'm trying to repair my current ubuntu server I'm using my original install thumb drive. I'm working on asus hardware. When I try to launch from ...
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Filesystem error while booting
I know there are some other posts similar to this one. But since I am a beginner, i would love to hear opinions specifically to my questions. When i boot, it fails with the following error:
I ...
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WARNING: Filesystem system has error. couldn't fIx parent of node 47322B43 Couldn't find parent directory entry
WARNING: Filesystem system has error. couldn't fIx parent of node 47322B43 Couldn't find parent directory entry.
I have Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) OS installed every time i boot getting ...
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How to fix ubuntu not starting error fsck fill systrm
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the root filesystem /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv requires a manual fsck
I have a server running on Ubuntu Server 20.04.5 LTS.
Sometimes the os goes in read-only mode and I have to do a "sudo reboot" and every time it reboots i get this error:
"the root ...
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Warning: Filesystem still has errors
After I rebooted my Ubuntu (20.04) laptop, it hung at the purple screen and the login page never appeared. I pressed the power button to turn it off, and after I turned it on again, I ran into the ...
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File system corruption on ubuntu
My computer crashed while I was developing a C++ program. When I rebooted my computer everything seemed fine until I ran my C++ program. Everything acted... weird and wrong, I've tried some stuff, ...
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Dual boot: File system errors on startup: "RUN fsck MANUALLY" - how to prevent in the future?
I've recently had an SSD disk problem after booting Ubuntu 20.04 Linux:
The file system had errors, but fortunately, after running fsck the machine is working again. The fsck fixed many errors, ...
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Repeating problem with root filesystem on SSD becoming read-only randomly
I replaced system SSD drive 1TB with a larger one 2TB and cloned the content using CloneZilla utility. Then in the OS the drive still appeared 1TB but I was able to extend it to 2TB. All the data ...
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Inexperienced user needs help resolving boot issue
Summary of issue:
I had to hard power off my laptop while a program was working with a file, and, upon booting back up, Ubuntu attempted to fix the resulting file system issues. During this process, ...
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Is it natural for e2fsck taking too much time at force rewrite?
I have got some bad blocks in my HDD and I can not login now.
I boot from a USB and try to fix it.
Before e2fsck I badblocks -nvs the partition first so that I know that bad blocks are in /dev/sda3 (...
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Do I need to check readonly disks on boot?
Every x startups, fsck will scan the disks for errors. This takes a very long time for large Disks.
Suppose I made a harddisk read-only with the command sudo tune2fs -O read-only /dev/sdXY.
Are those ...
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superblock bad magic number in external ext4 hdd; no backup superblocks work
I have an 8TB external HDD formatted as ext4, one single partition per gparted. I do NOT have any data on it at this time that I care about, so there is no issue of extracting data from it.
The drive ...
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Ubuntu filesystem becomes corrupt after reboot (cron)
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Basically I set my root cron to reboot every week. At first this was the line I used:
0 1 * * 0 /sbin/shutdown -r now
As the weeks went by I began to notice small but annoying ...
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Filesystem full but empty after corruption
I have a drive of 17 (18TB) which I know had a lot of files on it.
After corruption, i did a fsck on seid drive.
Now, when using df -h the result is the following:
/dev/sdk 17T 7.5T 8.1T 49%...
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Accidentally ran fsck against mounted esp partition
I accidentally ran fsck against my esp(EFI boot) partition while it was mounted. Fsck reported that the filesystem's boot sector backup differed from it's current state at offset 65. This means that ...
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Ubuntu boots into emergency mode. ^D and other recovery options fail. How can I fix it?
From similar questions, I thought it would be useful to run blkid and cat etc/fstab for your reference to help me figure out what is going on.
blkid has only 1 entry: /dev/sda1 which is my HDD with OS,...
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File system becomes read only
I've been operating ubuntu 18.04 for over a year. It was running smoothly until recently I ran into a problem. It keeps saying Read Only file system
When I try to cd into any directory and tap Tab for ...
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Why does Ubuntu start file checking on every reboot?
I have disks with UUID in the below;
pc@User:~$ sudo blkid | grep UUID=
/dev/sda2: UUID="1337da3f-187f-4d2a-b3d9-a6997bba783b" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="3bb046df-4be2-4148-a039-...
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sda2 contains a file system.with errors , check.forced
Every time i start ubuntu this message will appear and after few seconds another messages appear as shown in pictureenter image description here
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Cannot mount external disk, input/output error, cannot write to block 1
Trusting this exact situation has not been addressed.
External, old hard drive was in a RAID with another drive, just briefly to test and only as two separate drives, not contiguous or arrayed ...
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Since the beginning of 2021 I get sometimes d????????? (question marks) for linux file permissions; a reboot resolves it
since the beginning of 2021 I get for my ubunut 18.04 bionic from time to time for different directories the situation that the directories and files show up with file permissions d????????? (nine ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 won't boot (filesystem has errors), fsck didn't fix, recovery mode fails
In late November 2020, I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on an external hard drive,
and I was using it with no significant problems. Then when I tried to boot
it and log in (via the usual way) on Dec 21, it ...
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How can I recover from read-only filesystem when operating on VMWare?
I run Ubuntu 18.04 in a VMWare virtual machine. Something has happened that caused there to apparently be an I/O problem. Every time I boot the machine, after only about 1 minute, the entire ...
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Ubuntu read-only filesystem, then initramfs, how run fsck?
Apparently corruption got into my Ubuntu 20.04 samba server. At first it would still launch as a read-only filesystem. A number of forums and blogs recommended running fsck from a live disc. But that ...
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Filesystem damaged and can't be fixed
For a while now I've had this problem. When I start, most programs don't work because they can't access files apparently.
As I reboot, the system seems to get stuck. So I run a hard restart (from the ...
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Ubuntu runs filesystem check on every boot
I recently used gparted on the Ubuntu live USB to move/extend my / and /home partitions. No errors arose but now every time I boot Ubuntu, I get a long filesystem check that I can't skip.
I have used ...
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The fsck shows error for the mounted root directory, but no error for the unmounted one when executing on a bootable USB stick. How should I fix?
I am stuck in the problem. The fsck commands on the desktop computer showed the error of the file system for the mounted root directory. So, I created the bootable USB stick of Ubuntu, and made it ...
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How to fix file-system error causing read only mode?
Whenever I download any package or anything and in between that process if anything went wrong, my ubuntu goes into read-only mode and always I have to do sudo fsck -fy to fix that and every time ...
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fsck still going 24 hours later
I have a 1TB NVMe with Ubuntu (~300GB used). Using a live USB + GParted, I resized the root partition to 400GB.
When I rebooted I got the error "File system check of the root filesystem failed. The ...
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fsck -fy doesn't fix filesystem errors
When I run fsck.ext4 -fy /dev/sda2 I get lot of errors like that:
'..' in /Martin/Videa (58329818) is <The NULL inode> (0), should be /Martin (26476545).
No other type of error appears, not ...
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Ubuntu froze then when restarting failed to load
I took pic but too large to send. I’ll try to downscale later. This is what it said:
Running/Scripts/local-premonition.... done
Will now check root file systems .... fsck from util-Linux 2.31.1
[/...
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Can't fsck, can't figure out why and I need my files
I need to fsck my drive, It boots saying i need to manually run fsck on ubuntu-studio-vg-root , fsck exited with status code 4, so I booted from livecd and went to run it, I have ubuntu studio 18.4 ...
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keep having fsck error on boot, also the reinstllation of any Ubuntu version gets stuck
I am using a dual boot laptop with ubuntu 18.04.3 lts and windows 10.
For some unknown reason after an ubuntu update and system restart I got the following error:
/dev/sda6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 goes to Read-Only mode automatically
In my Ubuntu 19.04, the system goes read-only mode automatically. I fixed it using
fsck /dev/sda7 -y
But it is not fixed permanently after some time it goes to read-only mode again.
I am using dual ...
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Superblock checksum does not match superblock while trying to open /dev/sda2
I attempted to fix it with fsck and e2fsck -b but it didn't work. Actually, my screen goes full of numbers every time I try to fix this issue with those commands. Looks like it all started when I ...
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Unity settings and programs got messed up after fsck disk check
While doing my normal activity on my Ubuntu 16.04 (Unity) machine I noticed that Firefox stopped playing sounds from any tab (Applications tab in Sound Settings had something unknown to me listed ...
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How to get out of Readonly FileSystem?
I tried many things, but by the end of the week, I will be in this situation again. I am a dual boot user (Windows 10 Pro & Ubuntu 19.04). I keep both OS up to date. Unlike Windows which is very ...
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How to fix read-only file-system on 18.04
Today, after several uninterrupted weeks of happily using my Ubuntu machine again, I ran into another error, this time just after okaying a typical software update. Instead of giving me a successful ...
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Super sensitive file system!
I have my current laptop for almost 4 years, but it's about 7 months that I have been using Linux (Ubuntu 18.04) as my only OS. There have been challenges for me (you know normally as a new user) to ...
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File system error on Ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
I get the following error when trying to open the "Music" folder on my Mp3 player when the device is connected:
"Failed to open directory "Music" -- Error when getting information for file '/media/...
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input/output error when launching any program
Every program I launch on Ubuntu 16.04 generates an input/output error:
$ top
bash: /usr/bin/top: Input/output error
$ pkill firefox
bash: /usr/bin/firefox: Input/output error
$ okular
bash: /usr/bin/...
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fsck is not running on 18.04, even with tun2fs mount count set to 1
fsck is not running on my root drive on Ubuntu 18.04.
I have tried fsck.mode=force in grub on the kernel command line to no success.
I have set the mount count to 1 with tune2fs -c 1 /dev/sda2 and ...
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cannot remount /dev/sda2 read-write, is write-protected [duplicate]
I'm using ubuntu 16.04LTS on intel Core i3-6006U, 2.0GHz Asus pc.When I boot the pc I realized that there are some hard drive problems and it's not able to boot on ubuntu.
I tried the answer mentioned ...
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