Questions tagged [fsck]
tool for file system check
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fsck error on boot: /dev/sda6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7.
I was browsing on FireFox in Ubuntu and all of a sudden I get some error message, so I rebooted.
Now when I try to boot into Ubuntu I get this message:
fsck from ...
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How to repair a corrupted FAT32 file system
I'm using the FAT32 file system for my pen drive. It frequently has file/data corruptions.
In Windows, I used the scan disk utility to fix the FAT32/NTFS file systems. How can I do this in Ubuntu?
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Fix corrupt NTFS partition without Windows
MY NTFS Partition has gotten corrupt somehow (it's a relic from the days when I had Windows installed).
I'm putting the debug output of fdisk and blkid here.
At the same time, any OS is unable to ...
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"Welcome to emergency mode!" Think it is a fsck problem
My computer booted to a black screen with this error message.
Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in,type "journalctl -xb" to view
system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl ...
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Where are fsck results logged at boot time, after /forcefsck?
When working remotely, I set a server to force an fsck at boot time with the command:
sudo touch /forcefsck
and rebooted.
After it restarted, I checked in /var/log/fsck for the results of the disk ...
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/dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced [duplicate]
After booting into Ubuntu this shows up
/dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.
/dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED ...
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fsck can't find fsck.ntfs
On several machines that I've upgraded from Natty to Oneiric, I get an error every boot (one for every NTFS partition):
Serious errors were found while checking the disk drive for /windows/c.
Press ...
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What's lost+found and where did it come from?
I reformatted a hard drive to ext4, planning to use it as a backup drive. After mounting the freshly-formatted drive, I discovered a single empty directory inside it: lost+found. What's the purpose of ...
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How to fix the hard-drive Bad Sector
I tried to fix my hard drive using Ubuntu but I encountered an error message and didn't know how to proceed. I need to fix my bad sectors
fsck /dev/sdb
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42.5 (...
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e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting
I got this output:
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root is mounted.
e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.
after I used the fsck command. Any answers?
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/dev/sda1: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found
I was using my Ubuntu 2015.04 (with ecryptfs-encrypted user home) laptop normally when suddenly, the hard drive became read-only.
I rebooted and now it is stuck on this:
[ 0.703206] ACPI PCC ...
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How do I find out if there will be a fsck during the next boot?
Is there a way to find out if a filesystem check is scheduled for the next boot?
Maybe it's similar to a forced check, which gets triggered by the existence of the file /forcefsck?
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Force fsck.ext4 on reboot, but really "forceful"
One of my Ubuntu 10.04 servers is giving me trouble.
When I run fsck.ext4 -n /dev/sda5 it tells me there are errors in the free inode count, free block count, and more.
I have tried:
touch /...
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Persistent "disk will be checked..." in the message of the day (motd) even after reboot
I see that there are some other threads that mention this error, but I have tried the solutions with no luck.
When I log into my 12.04 Server, I get the message:
/dev/sdb1 will be checked for errors ...
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How can I make fsck run non-interactively at boot time?
I have a headless Ubuntu 12.04 server in a datacenter 1500 miles away. Twice now on reboot the system decided it had to fsck. Unfortunately Ubuntu ran fsck in interactive mode, so I had to ask someone ...
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My Ubuntu is running fsck on every bootup
On every bootup it's the same:
/dev/sda1: clean, 908443/38690816 files, 44176803/154733312 blocks
Is it some kind of option Ubuntu uses to ensure filesystem consistency or is there something wrong ...
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Recover from a corrupted filesystem when fsck do not help
Something went wrong with my filesystem, Ubuntu set it to read-only and now under Ubuntu Live Disc, fsck can't fix it.
I'm running 13.04 and it won't boot - at startup, it just shows the grub rescue ...
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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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Trying to repair LVM disk with fsck
I'm on Ubuntu 16, and I'm trying to repair my startup disk. I have followed the instructions here, but once I'm at the root access of Recovery mode, it still says that the disk is mounted and it can't ...
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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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How to use fsck in Ubuntu?
I intend to use fsck for checking my Linux partition of the main disk, because its file system is suspicious of being not unmounted cleanly by shutting down the system. I have searched in my ...
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How to delete/edit files from readonly filesystem
I am having problem with my memory device (actually a memory card that act external memory device like pendrive).
experimentx@workmateX:/var/www/zendtest$ sudo rm /media/A88F-8788/python-2.7.1-...
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Can I run fsck or e2fsck when Linux file system is mounted?
I mean I'm already here right. If not, why?
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How do I do a manual fsck?
My pc doesn't want to start saying:
/dev/mmcblk0p2p cointais a file system with errors, check forced.
Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.
/dev/mmcblk0p2: UNEXPECTED ...
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Fsck gets mad when the file system is mounted
When I run fsck -fy in a terminal it says something similar to:
WARNING!! FILE SYSTEM MOUNTED!! You will cause seviere damages.
Why is that? This might be a little off-topic but I ran that ...
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How to check a mounted filesystem for errors in a reliable way
Following this question:
Force fsck.ext4 on reboot, but really "forceful"
Apparently the output of e2fsck -n is not reliable when you use it on a mounted filesystem, so its output should ...
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Automatically force fsck -fy when encountering "UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY."
I have FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS, however, when I drove down to the site and connected a monitor to this server today, I saw this:
I ran fsck.ext4 -fy /dev/sda1 and rebooted and now the server ...
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FSCK reports that filesystem still has errors [duplicate]
I'm learning a little about fsck on the fly, but what I am finding so far doesn't seem to do very much when I apply it. What would be the next step from this prompt to repair the errors I am having ...
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fsck e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting [duplicate]
When I tried to run fsck on Ubuntu 18.04 recovery-mode I got the following message. Can anyone tell me why?
/lib/recocery-mode/recovery-menu: line 80: /etc/default/rcS: No such file or directory
fsck ...
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Main differences between fsck and chkdsk?
What are the important differences between fsck and chkdsk, and which command will reduce and correct the most hard disk errors?
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Undeletable directory in lost+found
How can I delete this directory? I did fsck and it has found some garbage, I looked through these files and there wasn't something important. So I've tried to delete the contents of /lost+found and ...
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I'm running fsck and getting "ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block"
I'm running: fsck -n /dev/sdb2 and I'm getting:
fsck from util-linux 2.31.1
e2fsck 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block
fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup ...
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File system has become read-only after updating to 15.04?
I stupidly decided to update from 14.04LTS to 14.10 and then 15.04.
Since doing that, my website has gone down and file system has become read only. I have no idea what has gone wrong, as the updates ...
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How can I get rid of the motd message "*** /dev/sdb1 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***"? [duplicate]
My motd persistently has:
*** /dev/sdb1 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
The problem is that I don't have /dev/sdb1 on my system.
I only have /dev/sdb2 (mouted as /) and /dev/sda1 ...
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Ubuntu stuck on boot, won't get past fsck!
This is the second time this has happened. I have disabled mouse acceleration on Ubuntu by following these instructions.
Immediately after that I tried to log out but the system got hung at the fsck ...
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Black screen during boot after TTY1 login
I've got a weeks-young install of 13.04 (3.8.0.29) and the computer has been powered on for a week. I turned it off for the night and now it freezes during boot.
I have already checked this ...
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Why does my root filesystem keep becoming read-only?
I've lately been having an issue with my root filesystem becoming readonly. It happens some amount of time after boot. I don't know exactly when it happens, as I don't usually notice it until ...
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How to disable fsck run on Ubuntu 16.04 boot?
FSCK is running every boot on Ubuntu 16.04. How can I prevent this from happening? I've searched boot parameters and don't see any parameter setting this to be run on boot. Also, there is no /...
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How can I safely fsck my root partition?
There's a new problem in 18.04 and later. I just discovered that the way I've always used fsck at the root access in recovery mode no longer works.
It used to be fsck -f /, but now it tells me that ...
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Is my boot process normal? It takes 50 seconds boot
Here's my boot.log
resume: libgcrypt version: 1.5.0
fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
/dev/sda5: clean, 668102/3276800 files, 4449436/13107200 blocks
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Force fsck safe?
My ubuntu system just froze, and I was forced to run the REIUSB commands. Now, in windows, you can run chdsk. I've read about "touch /forcefsck", but I have also read that's is dangerous to check a ...
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Fsck on every bootup, slow bootup, moved /
Today I started experiencing an annoying issue. When I boot to Ubuntu 15.04, it runs fsck on one disk every time. I've located the cause to this problem on my /home partition, which is located at /dev/...
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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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fsck shows ext4 file system errors, but only when booting from system partition
I'm having a problem with my ext4 system partition. I'm running 17.04 (upgraded from 16.10), but the problem was already present in 16.10.
Occasionally (most commonly after waking the system from ...
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how to do I force-yes on fsck
I have bunch of headless ubuntu server instruments. When various hardware changes happen sometimes we get this error. I'm guessing it was a motherboard replacement that had a slightly different RTC ...
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Stuck at fsck "/dev/sda1: clean xxx/xxx files [...] " after upgrade to Ubuntu 16 from 14
I've updated my Ubuntu distro, and since then everytime I boot the system I am stuck at the fsck screen
/dev/sda1: clean xxx/xxx files, xxx/xxx blocks
I`ve already trying accessing tty 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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Superblock set in the future, fixing system clock
I keep getting errors messages about my Superblock mount time being in the future, and insisting on doing fsck on every boot and I have to go in from the recovery options to do this every time.
Here ...
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dosfsck "Unable to create unique name"
I have an Archos 605 media player that seems to have become corrupted, so I'm trying to run fsck on it. It mounts as a FAT32 hard drive, so I ran
sudo dosfsck -a
and this is what I got:
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Help with corrupted NTFS partition
My Ubuntu isn't able to mount a partition.
It suddenly became unreadable because of a corrupt Master File Table. chkdsk /f is unable to correct it, saying:
Windows will now check the disk.
Corrupt ...
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