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.

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?

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.

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.

January 4, 2018 - fsck -y /dev/sda2 · If I have helped you solve a problem, please add [SOLVED] to your first post title, it helps other users looking for help. Regards, Deepak Mint 22.2 Cinnamon on 2 disks/8gb · Top · Mute Ant · Post by Mute Ant » Thu Jan 04, 2018 5:51 pm ·

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 ....

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 ...

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.

@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 ...

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

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.

February 3, 2025 - You need to boot from a "live system", e.g. your mint install stick and run fsck from that.

Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.1 and 22.2. ... Ignore the missing file error -- it's a bit of a red herring. the real issue is that you cannot run fsck on a mounted partition, and you cannot unmount the partition the OS is running from.

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.

September 14, 2019 - dev/mapper/mint--vg-root: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY (i. e. without -a or -p options) fsck exited with status code 4 done, Failure: file systrem check of the root filesystem failed. The root filesystem on dev/mapper/mint/--vg-root requires a manual fsck I know, but I don't think markus understood that since fsck -c -y /dev/sda2 was run