May 22, 2022 - karlchen wrote: ⤴Sun May 22, 2022 2:21 pmAt the (initramfs) prompt, try fsck /dev/sdb2, please. As above, I'll add to fsck /dev/sda2, use the -y , it will look like this fsck /dev/sda2 -y to answer yes to all prompts, and when it's through press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot.

To fsck /dev/sda2 from the terminal, boot the Mint live media and run fsck from there on /dev/sda2

November 27, 2018 - Phd21: Mint 22 Cinnamon & KDE Neon 64-bit Awesome OS's, Dell Inspiron I5 7000 (7573, quad core i5-8250U) 2 in 1 touch screen ... Recently, I'm also receiving this message, and failure to boot, and I have been using MInt for years without problems. In my case, it fails to boot, but the OS it provides a basic shell to run commands. fsck isn't listed on the list of available commands, however it's available as a command. I run `fsck /dev/sd5` and it fixes the device errors, and afterwards I'm able to boot again, in some cases some files are corrupted.

October 21, 2023 - Last edited by LockBot on Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:00 pm, edited 1 time in total. Reason: Topic automatically closed 6 months after creation. New replies are no longer allowed. ... it could be my hard drive is failing. Yes. You need to run fsck after booting up your live USB install stick.

March 30, 2026 - $ sudo mkswap /dev/sda2 #sda2 is swap partition device name $ sudo swapon /dev/sda2 Reply · Doesn’t work. I have a 32 bits Ubuntu-based system. When I try to use Gparted, it says that I must have a more recent version of e2fsprogs.

October 30, 2025 - Welcome to the Linux Mint support forums! ... Forum rules Before you post read how to get help. Topics in this forum are automatically closed 6 months after creation. ... [*SOLVED*]I increased the vm_max_map_count rebooted and now iam stuck in BusyBox v1.36.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.36.1 6Ubuntu3.1) built- in shell (ash). It states that /dev/sda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced.

Hello, i have the following issue: On my Laptop there suddenly was a "lag" and all the files, programs etc. seemed to be empty. It was not

February 8, 2026 - This screen shot is the message I get when I boot my computer:- Running Mint 22.2 How do I run fsck on the partition /dev/sda2?

Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.1 and 22.2. ... Seems like it fails to unmount '/dev/sda2', so it's great that it doesn't continue regardless, else that risks data loss. You could instead try using fsck(8) (research first! IE: man fsck & YouTube) from Recovery Mode, from which you can manually unmount ...

December 20, 2024 - If filesystem need to be repaired ... receive a warning with the problem and solution. On that shell it is possible to run fsck -y /dev/sda2 as all is loaded only on RAM on that moment and partition on disk can be repaired....

sudo fsck /dev/sda1 If you keep getting errors like this it could be that your hard drive is going bad or is bad and needs to be replaced. 3 Useful GUI and Terminal Based Linux Disk Scanning Tools https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ How To Fix A Bad Hard Drive On Linux ...

@guiverc hey I appreciate you reaching out but I was actually able to find and old post on here from 2023 that answered my question. All I had to do was run fsck -yf /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2 in my case and then it corrected the issues after entering ...

August 14, 2025 - A "superblock" is not something special in that sense; just a filesystem's most main data-structure that may get damaged in that sense. If you from that (initramfs) prompt run fsck -fy /dev/sda2 the filesystem checker will (auto-)repair any found damaged filesystem data-structures that it believes ...

July 30, 2021 - sudo fsck -f /dev/sda2 It should run right through without errors At the end, in terminal, type exit Then reboot Start back up again normally. Success ? if you need to read...THIS can give a guide. Condobloke ...Outback Australian ::LINUX MINT 22.1 Cinnamon ....

update-initramfs -u 4. You will probably need to restart your system and use fsck again. 5. I suggest you check hard drive GsmartControl ( there just check log if exist only ) and RAM ( Memtest86 and Memtest86+ ) You can use from live-USB even https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ 6.

May 4, 2018 - Updates und Upgrades mach ich ja schon ständig. Habe auch verschiedene fsck-Befehle versucht: fsck /dev/sda2 fsck.ext4 -C0 /dev/sda2 fsck.ext4 -f /dev/sda2 Zu dem Problem mit der "corrupted orphan linked list" fand ich auch in anderen Foren was, blieb hier auch überall ungelöst.

You cannot run fsck on a file system that is currently mounted or non-existent. While partitions can hold file systems, they aren't the only type of device in linux that can hold a file system. IF you would post the output from lsblk -e 7 -o name,type,fstype,size,FSAVAIL,FSUSE%,label,mountpoint ...

May 1, 2026 - To force fsck to run at boot time on systemd distributions pass the following kernel boot parameters: ... # [File System] [Mount Point] [File System Type] [Options] [Dump] [PASS] /dev/sda1 / ext4 defaults 0 1 /dev/sda2 /home ext4 defaults 0 2 server:/dir /media/nfs nfs defaults 0 0