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I booted my machine this morning and was greeted by a busybox shell.
I booted from a live USB, mounted the drive with cryptsetup, but when I try to open it it says my ubunutu--root-vg has an unrecognized filesystem.

So I ran fsck /dev/mapper/ubuntu--root-vg and it says possible bad superblocks, scans the drive for a minute, and then starts endlessly spitting out block numbers that look like (9232934579-9232934589). I think it's trying to tell me that all of these blocks are bad or something. But the command is still running spitting out random block names.

Does this mean all of my data is gone forever? All I did was apply the latest Ubuntu update. How could that corrupt my entire drive?

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Answer from OP:

Solved by letting fsck run for about an hour of random output. I thought it might be glitched out but it was doing its job properly. Imagine my excitement when it completed and all my files were back :)

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