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How do you fix a broken filesystem, other than letting fsck have its way |
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with it? |
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On 11/17/19 12:39, Dale wrote: |
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> n952162 wrote: |
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>> I'm not seeing how doing an fsck from a live cd helps. |
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> Generally speaking, something ends up being mounted rw and if it isn't |
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> clean, that can cause issues that may have been fixable before to become |
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> issues that are no longer fixable. This is why a lot of people put a |
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> rescue system in /boot and add it to their boot loader menu. Sadly, my |
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> /boot partition isn't large enough or I'd do that as well. If you have |
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> data you don't want to lose and no backups or only older backups, you |
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> don't want to do anything that involves risk. Booting something else |
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> and fixing file system errors is the safest way. |
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