[Trisquel-users] Filesystem Issues

[leestrobel]

I seem to be having some problems with my root filesystem, and I'm wondering  
if someone could give me some advice?

I have my root filesystem on a separate partition to my home filesystem on my  
laptop. Over the past few days, I seem to keep running into an issue where  
certain things I'm trying to do are not working, because I'm told the root  
filesystem is mounted 'read only'. I've run e2fsck on it from a root system  
on a different partition and it is finding errors in the filesystem (ext4).  
When, I fix those errors, everything seems to work properly again for a  
while; however, after an hour or two, similar errors seem to reappear.

I'm thinking this probably indicates that the root filesystem is messed up,  
so I should probably back up the data and re-format the partition. Does that  
sound right? The same issue doesn't seem to be affecting the home partition,  
so it doesn't appear to be a problem with the HDD.