Questions tagged [fsck]
tool for file system check
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*Continuous* 'file system with errors' issue. What does it indicate?
Edit: adding Disks Screenshot as recomended.
There are other threads on this issue. However, they don't have clarity as to why this problem keeps repeating.
I'll define the problem.
On switching on ...
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What to do after running fsck and messing up partitions?
Wasn't sure how to format the question in the title, but bear with me here. Earlier today, I (stupidly) ran fsck. Now, I get a kernel panic message (not syncing), and Ubuntu will not boot.
After doing ...
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ubuntu won't boot error
What I think caused the error
I have installed ubuntu on an external SSD Drive, I was using it for several days, But when I booted it up it just gave me this error :
busybox v1.30.1 built-in shell ...
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Truncated ext4 partition after trying to access my partition from windows with ext2fs
After trying to access my Linux partition from Windows operating system, my Linux partition is now truncated to a size 1K byte and I am no longer able to mount that partition.
"fdisk" shows ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 fsck.ext4: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs'
When I reset my pc after an update for windows, my ubuntu terminal can no longer look at data within my c and d hard drives of the mnt file. When I use ls it produces.
:/mnt$ls
ls: cannot access 'd': ...
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Having issues with fixing /dev/sda2 recovering journal
Today I saw that Ubuntu was cleaning up orphaned inodes. Here's the boot log message:
/dev/sda2: clearing orphaned inode 396229 uid=1000 gid=1000 mode 0100600 ,si
/dev/sda2: clearing orphaned inode ...
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ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: usci_handle_connector_change: GET_CONNECTOR_STATUS failed (-110)
On boot the following message appears and I cannot login (well I can but only if I go to tty3 and login via cli):
ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: usci_handle_connector_change: GET_CONNECTOR_STATUS failed (-110)
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Explanation of errors found by fsck on ext4 filesystem
I restarted my system from the terminal using shutdown -r now (instead of the usual option in the menu), and then I ran fsck on the filesystem and got errors like:
Free blocks count wrong ...
Free ...
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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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I am on ubuntu 2.31.1 and I need to manually fsck [duplicate]
The error message I am getting is:
(/dev/mapper/isw_dbjigffjdb_RADIOIMSVolume2 contains a file system with errors, c heck forced.
Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.
(/dev/...
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Recurring need to run fsck because system won't boot
Once in a while my Linux system won't boot and gives filesystem errors. I can "fix" them by booting with a LiveCD and running:
sudo fsck -y /dev/sda1
The command says it finds bad blocks ...
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Hard disk not recognised as ext4 on reboot
I have a 12TB internal hard disk on my Ubuntu 18.04 workstation that when I boot, is assigned a 17MB 'Microsoft Reserved' partition and the rest is allocated to a second partition as free space (...
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Read-only file randomly
I use my Ubuntu PC as a Server to host a Minecraft Server and other stuff developed by me. I noticed frequent crashes of the Minecraft Server that made me look further into the error. When I opened ...
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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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fsck failed on all (unrelated) servers
I am curios how this happens? I came in from the weekend and had to reboot two unrelated servers, exhibiting the same similar message:
fsck from util-linux 2.26.2
/dev/sda1 contains a file system ...
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Boot stuck on HP logo after initramfs fsck
Update: I bit the bullet and did a fresh install, so this is no longer an issue. I don't think I'd consider it "solved" though.
Went to fire up my computer this morning and was met with the ...
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Recovering partially wiped hard drive
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and long story short, I accidentally ran a terminal command to write over my hard drive with zeros. It ran for a few seconds before my machine crashed. Now I've been struggling ...
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Fsck does not work
Fsck isn’t doing its job here. When I try running it, I get a
(No such file or directory) while executing fsck.ext2 for /dev/nve1n1p3.
What should I do?
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Mechanisms that trigger `fsck` on boot
Question: Which mechanisms (other than the one in /etc/fstab) automatically trigger fsck at the boot?
Details: My computer currently runs Ubuntu 21.04 without any issues, it works properly. At the ...
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How to force fsck on reboot for Ubuntu 20.04
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on an embedded device. I will like to ask how to force automatic fsck on bootup? In older Ubuntu versions, this can be achieved by editing the /etc/default/rcS and setting ...
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Is my Hard disk failing?
I used to have Windows 10 in my Laptop prior. Out of nowhere the updates were not installing properly and the system always had a 100% disk usage problem due to which it was very very slow. I found on ...
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Recovery Ubuntu hard disk info
Some weeks ago I had a problem with my computer and my ubuntu 18.04 crashed (here I provide some details). I don't have success runing the commands to run that ubuntu again. I had too much to do then ...
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ubuntu taking too long to boot, constantly needs fsck, and often can't find the boot drive
I started having problems with ubuntu 18.04 forcing me to fsck the boot drive every other time I turned my desktop pc on. I figured maybe it's not supported anymore, so I went for 20.04. However it ...
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Avoid exit mode when a partition is not mounted
Everytime a HDD partition is not mounted with /etc/fstab due to errors, system halts on emergency mode.
I want my server auto check itself using fsck on emergency mode or avoid the emergency mode when ...
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Cannot mount microSD card
I am trying to mount my micro SD card but it shows write-protected. I have tried disabling using the notch on the adapter. I also ran the following commands:
lsblk -p
/dev/mmcblk0 ...
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Ubuntu fsck + black /purple screen (problem)
Yesterday I was working on my computer but it was freezed when I was working. So, I turned off pushing the bottom. When I started again the computer show me a message about the filesystem and I have ...
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I used fsck and now I can't change the favourites?
My computer took too long to boot, so I turned it off and back on again, then it demanded I repair something.
I learned online that I needed to fix some errors in my boot drive by using fsck -vf /dev/...
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e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdi
I have a WD Mybook Live disk which stopped working one day.
I took our the HD and connected it to my Linux box to try and rescue the data but so far without success.
The fdisk shows the below:
Disk /...
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Ubuntu 18.04 stuck at fsck boot after installing nvidia drivers
Overall gist,
I recently installed Nvidia drivers for GTX 1050 Ti Mobile for the first time. After installation, I restarted the laptop and "boom..", It's forever stuck with the "fsck&...
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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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Recurrent fsck /dev/sda1 error - should I reinstall Ubuntu 20.04?
Last week I booted Ubuntu 20.04 but I got the error initframfs: /dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors. I fixed it by manually entering fsck /dev/sda1 but today I got the same problem.
Shall I ...
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Ubuntu 21.04 nothing happens when message: "Press Ctrl-C to cancel all filesystems checks"
Ubuntu 21.04, my computer also get message: "Press Ctrl-C to cancel all filesystems checks", and does not go on...
Any final solution?
Temporary solution is:
If your computer also get ...
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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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"0 bytes free" after partition resizing, but there is much unused space [duplicate]
Using GParted, I resized two Ext4 partitions on my external HDD, making them smaller.
But now the OS says there is no space available on both of them.
This is the outptut of df -H for those partitions....
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Issue with fsck on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
I have an Intel Nuc with Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS installed and all the latest updates.
My NUC randomly crashed and the disk went into read-only mode. I had to force the NUC to shut down and power back on ...
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File system check at boot time fails
My Ubuntu 20.10 installation was showing a blank screen after booting, so I started it in recovery mode and tried sudo fsck -f /. The error it gave was:
sudo: unable to resolve host dk: Temporary ...
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Recurrent bad superblocks errors on my hard disk when trying to mount EXT4 filesystem on Ubuntu 20.04
I ran into a problem earlier this week where I booted my computer and one of my drives gave me an error about bad superblocks. I run Ubuntu 20.04 x64 on my laptop with EXT4. This error prevented me ...
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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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Unable to restart NetworkManager
ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Kernel 4.15.0-135-generic
On a dualboot laptop, normal boot was stopped because of an error message that said to run ckfs. I did it but since then, I can't connect to the wifi network....
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WIn10 upgrade from Win7 trashed my existing multi OS instal
I had an old windows 7 installation, which I used occasionally when wine didn't work, which I used alongside my Ubuntu 20.04. I had 5 partitions including an extended Unix with data and swap on 1 1TB ...
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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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fsck (or e2fsck) - Example of difference between -p and -y options
Looking at the manual for e2fsck, there are two options that appear very similar:
e2fsck -y (which answers 'yes' to any question answered)
e2fsck -p (which does not ask any questions, and just goes ...
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Fix read-only partitions on Ubuntu 18.04
Few of partitions in my file system have become read-only and I cannot create/copy any file to those partitions.
@Charles Green says here to boot from a live USB and run the below command.
sudo fsck -...
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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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Boot won't get past auto fsck, any help?
I restarted my computer and after an error booting, I got into initramfs, from there I did fsck, e2fsck all the sorts. However e2fsck was taking too long so I just forced shut down my pc. Then when I ...
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Stuck on boot after adding fsck.mode=force
Inside the grub menu, I used e to add fsck.mode=force to the linux line and continued booting. As a result, the screen only shows a blinking cursor in the upper left for 10 hours now. Disk led is off ...
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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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CTRL + ALT + F7 shortcut
Can someone explain what this combination does? I mistakenly pressed it on Ubuntu 20.10 and it showed me a screen with the same output of fsck (“clean” and the number of blocks)... now I am worried ...
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Can you help me please about fsck [duplicate]
Check the image or ask me for details. Thanks