How to obtain list of installed packages

[Bret Busby]

On 20/05/2016, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2016 16:27:16 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>the HDD has the partitions that existed when the system was purchased
>>(about four or five, I believe)
>
> They are unlikely Linux journaling file systems. This shouldn't be
> related to a warning or error, but it might be better to use Linux file
> systems.
>
>>If I knew how to reproduce the particular error message, it would
>>probably be quite helpful, in all of this, as I may be completely
>>wrong, in my perception of the need to rebuild the file systems on the
>>HDD.
>
> When did you see the error message? By startup messages? When running a
> program?
>
> What do you get when running on or all of the below programs?
>   sudo parted -l
>   sudo fdisk -l
>   sudo gparted
>
> Take a look at
>   man fsck
> or perhaps it's easier to read
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilesystemTroubleshooting
> I didn't read the help, but I noticed that "touch /forcefsck" perhaps
> should be run as "sudo touch /forcefsck".
>

I had a look at man fsck, then thought that running fsck -A might be
the thing to do.

"
bret at bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE:~$ fsck -A
fsck from util-linux 2.26.2
e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
/dev/sda15 is mounted.



WARNING!!!  The filesystem is mounted.   If you continue you ***WILL***
cause ***SEVERE*** filesystem damage.


Do you really want to continue<n>? no
check aborted.
bret at bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE:~$
"

/dev/sda15 shows in gparted (the attachment that I was banned from
posting), as the Mountpoint /

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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