Hi
I am using Linux Mint 19.2. yesterday I did all the updates, however when I switched on the computer this morning (having gone into recovery) I get a message /dev/mapper/mint--vg--root contains a file system with errors.
I now have a message requires manual fsck
(initramfs)
All the different fsck that I have tried do not work for instance
fsck /dev/sda1

I have also tried with the original USB stick from boot to try and repair it, however it refuses to recognise it.
I am really lost here.
Can someone please help
Thank you in advance

Simon

This type of problem is usually caused by shutting off the power to the computer instead of doing a shutdown command. fsck cannot recover files that were never written to disk. Please post the first page of errors that you are seeing from fsck and we can suggest what to do.

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
I am not too worried about loosing some of my files if I can reboot the system. I turned the computer off because Firefow was failing to respond. I turned it off correctly otherwise.
/dev/mapper/mint--vg--root contains a file system with errors,check forced.
Inodes taht were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.
/dev/mapper/mint--vg--root UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUn fsck MANUALLY
fsck exited with staus code 4
the root filesystem on /dev/mapper/mint--vg--root requires manual fsck

BusyBox v1.27.2 built in shell (ash)

Hope this helps

Simon

Run fsck from the bustbox shell or a USB stick with the "-y" option to repair. Your root filesystem must NOT be mounted. Should be:

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WOW
Thank you very much it worked.
There were a lot of errors that it corrected
Once again thank you
Simon