Failed to start File System Check on

boot startup fstab

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Solution 1

My guess for your situation would be that environmental changes have affected you HDD. So from the error message from journalctl -xb which points to file inconsistencies and the instruction to run manual file check. Use the fsck command to correct this error:

fsck /dev/sda2

And simply accept all the options give during the process. Then reboot you system.

Solution 2

Similar to the answer before https://askubuntu.com/a/1095536/676490

In my case helped:

sudo fsck /dev/sda1
sudo fsck /dev/sda2
sudo fsck /dev/sda3
sudo fsck /dev/sda4

And I accepted everthing with y (yes)

If you want to accept all automatically you can use ihmo the -y-flag:

sudo fsck -y /dev/sda4

or simmilar

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Pablo

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Pablo almost 2 years

A couple hours ago tried to start my Ubuntu laptop after a few months without using it and I found myself with this:

I'm far from understanding what's exactly happening here. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this?
- George Udosen over 5 years
  
  type journalctl -xb and see what it has to say!
- Pablo over 5 years
  
  Added a screenshot of the part where it mentions the same error. Does it help?
- George Udosen over 5 years
  
  run this command fsck /dev/sda2 and accept all options
- George Udosen over 5 years
  
  Is it back up ?
- Pablo over 5 years
  
  It's working! yes!
- George Udosen over 5 years
  
  Make sure you do an update on your system to bring it up to speed with the latest updates! Cheers!
- George Udosen over 5 years
  
  @wjandrea I have done so!
Sashko Lykhenko almost 5 years

How to find out which sda or sdb is it in my case?
George Udosen almost 5 years

I think the error message should tell you which it is! @sashkolykhenko
Sashko Lykhenko over 4 years

Well I never found it in the message, I brute-forced through all drives instead :)