<div dir="ltr">Hi There,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 23:09, Udvarias Ur <<a href="mailto:udvarias1@gmail.com">udvarias1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The output from 'mount | grep -i sd' in root option of recovery mode is …<br>
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/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)<br>
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This output indicates that the root filesystem is automatically mounted <br>
in 'recovery mode' exactly the same way that it is mounted with a normal <br>
boot.<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">From what I can see, it appears:-</div><div class="gmail_quote">* You are running Linux with a root partition on /dev/sda6<br clear="all"></div><div>* This means /dev/sda6 is mounted</div><div><br></div><div>My understanding is you can't run fsck on a mounted partition.<br></div><div><br></div><div>My approach to this would be to boot Linux from a live CD / USB Ubuntu media. This should mean that /dev/sda6 will mounted at that time and you should be able to fsck /dev/sda6<br></div><div><br></div><div>What do other people think?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Also, there is a package called smartmontools that contains the smartctl program that can be used to monitor the health of hard drives. If that is installed then "man smartctl" should give you sufficient information.<br></div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>