Hi All,
I have discovered a Ubuntu Boot-Repair -Disc which avoids syntax issues,
I was unable to come up with a satisfactory syntax for the commands
needed to solve this problem. Suitably chastened I have located a laptop
which has Thunderbird so now I can keep the thread on the list. My
atte
Hi Manoj,
Thank you for your response. I have had a look at those links, and they
are quite a bit "over my head", so I wonder if I should use the rescue
disk to facilitate shifting my ~/working directory to my RAID disks.
(Nothing else is of any consequence) and then use a Ubuntu 18.10 DVD to
Hi Andrew,
To run a file system check on sda3 boot from a rescue disk an run:
fsck -n /dev/sda3
This will tell you the problems with the filesystem on the partition
If the data on sda3 is critical to you, or there is major corruption,
then you should backup the raw partition before trying t
Hi Andrew,
* It is a good idea to backup whatever you can, before you do anything else.
* Once you have that out of the way, try
$btrfs scrub start /dev/sda3
* I personally haven't used btrfs much, but I believe it may be better to
try a
$btrfs check --repair /dev/sda3
before you do the fsck
