Fsck output does not match tutorials...

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 at 20:23, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have an erroneous disk (it ran out of disk space during a sudo apt
> full-upgrade operation and Linux crashed).
> Linux won't boot now.
>
> I can put it into a USB carrier and examine it on another system:
>
> sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL
> UUID                                 NAME        FSTYPE  SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL
> MODEL
>                                      sda                 7.4G
> UHSII_uSD_Reader
> 1591-0E10                            +-sda1      vfat    256M
> c14f2d5f-b499-41df-b7ce-15bdf933cdff +-sda2      ext4    7.2G <== repair?
>
> It turned out that free space on sda2 is zero, that is why Linux crashed, I
> guess.
> But now I have freed up 40% by deleting a few very big files in the home dir.
> But there is more to do because Linux will not boot anyway.
>
> So I figured I could do as several on-line tutorials suggest:
>
> sudo fsck -N /dev/sda2
> fsck from util-linux 2.33.1
> [/sbin/fsck.ext4 (1) -- /dev/sda2] fsck.ext4 /dev/sda2
>
> This response is not shown in any of the tutorials I found....

I think that is just telling you which variant it is using.  Is that
all it showed and then returned to the command line?

Colin

>
> What am I doing wrong?
> Can the disk be repaired?
>
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> Bo Berglund
> Developer in Sweden
>
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