for running fsck instructions say: Restart your system and select “Advanced options for Ubuntu” > “Recovery mode”. Select fsck from the menu. but when I do this, it says can't 'cause it is mounted...
next sez: Boot from a live CD/USB. Open a terminal and use fsck on unmounted partitions: bash sudo fsck -f /dev/sda1
I use sda5 (my linux), again sez mounted...
can't find any method that works...
when I run: sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda5 | grep Mount
I get: Mount count: 355
...this doesn't seem right...
when sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda5 is run, this is in it:
Mount count: 2 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Thu Mar 20 19:43:39 2025 Check interval: 0 ()
and yet...
Filesystem state: clean
tried to run sudo fdisk -l
and get this:
Disk /dev/loop0: 8 KiB, 8192 bytes, 16 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop1: 4 KiB, 4096 bytes, 8 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop2: 103.99 MiB, 109043712 bytes, 212976 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop3: 104.19 MiB, 109252608 bytes, 213384 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop4: 55.36 MiB, 58052608 bytes, 113384 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop5: 55.36 MiB, 58052608 bytes, 113384 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop6: 63.7 MiB, 66789376 bytes, 130448 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop7: 63.75 MiB, 66842624 bytes, 130552 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/sda: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Disk model: TOSHIBA MQ01ABD0 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x6be66be6
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 204800 100M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 205006847 204800000 97.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 205006848 307406847 102400000 48.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 307406848 976773119 669366272 319.2G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 307408896 512208895 204800000 97.7G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 512210944 757970943 245760000 117.2G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 757972992 976773119 218800128 104.3G 83 Linux
Disk /dev/loop8: 73.87 MiB, 77459456 bytes, 151288 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop9: 73.89 MiB, 77479936 bytes, 151328 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop10: 258.29 MiB, 270831616 bytes, 528968 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
...and it goes on to loop52?
any ideas what's up?!?
