Hello everyone. I'm running qubes 3.2 and I love it. Today I messed up and it's got my stomach in knots. I switched to my windows ssd for a legacy task that i have yet to migrate to linux. After I finished, i told the laptop to shut down. Then, perhaps too quickly, i closed the lid, flipped it over, pulled off the cover, took out the windows ssd and put in the qubes ssd. When i flipped it back over, to my horror i realized the laptop was still powered on.
Immediately i fear i have either shorted the ssd or corrupted it. When I boot, it reached the password screen. After I enter my password it enters emergency mode. As instructed, i ran journalctl. The only errors are near the end, where it says: /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root contains a file system with errors, check forced. Then fsck failed with error code 4, and then a file system check failed on qubes_dom0-root. (See attached picture) I ran fsck /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root, but said no to every prompt, as I have no experience in this situation and I fear making things worse. But I did want to see what it had to say. Next I boot to the qubes install USB stick and choose Rescue a Qubes system. It reaches a point where Rescue asks me to choose: 1. find and mount the installed OS to /mnt/sysimage, 2. Mount it as read-only, 3. skip to shell, or 4. quit. I chose to continue. I enter my password when prompted, then it tells me that it has been mounted under /mnt/sysimage, and that I am able to mount it with chroot /mnt/sysimage. I ran chroot /mnt/sysimage, and it said: bash: /tmp/.bashrc: Structure needs cleaning I'm not sure what to do here but I assume I would be able to do something if I only knew what. It appears I have two potential courses of action: run the fsck, say yes to everything and hope for the best, or perhaps attempt something else from the chroot. However, I am new to linux. Usually I'm fairly cautious and don't get myself into these sorts of situations, but alas, here I am. I'm terrified of making things worse. I would rather wait to hear from the community on how to proceed. I would be grateful for any help in rescuing my data. I promise to do a full backup immediately after getting it running again. I am at your mercy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/2886d1f5-e63a-4b86-b8f2-ab42aff30dd9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
