On 18:10, Fri, 7 Jul 2023 Mick Ab <recoverymail123890@gmail.com wrote:
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> On 16:22, Fri, 7 Jul 2023 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mick,
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 04:01:23PM +0100, Mick Ab wrote:
> > > Twice, when trying to reboot my PC, I have had error messages which
> > > indicate the root file system is corrupted and needs the manual use of fsck
> > > to fix the root file system before a reboot can be done.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts please as to what might cause the above problem ?
> >
> > It's something that happened in the past so difficult to tell. You
> > will keep getting the message until you run fsck to fix it. You did
> > not say whether you had done that so I'll assume not.
> >
> > I would be booting into a live or rescue environment and running
> > fsck -n first to see what it will do, before running a real fsck.
> > Also have backups.
> >
> > Most likely thing is that fixes it and you have no further
> > problems. If it keeps happening to you, however, then this will need
> > more investigation.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andy
> >
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> Sorry, I should have said that fsck was manually run on the root file system (as advised by the error message) each time that the error occurred. On both occasions, the system was rebooted okay.
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> I am concerned that this error might keep recurring, so am keen to find out what is causing this error.