1. Create a bootable USB pendrive, flashing Trisquel Mini in it. 2. Boot from USB pendrive (you should press a special key while booting) 3. Mount internal drive from this "live" session and backup your data 4. Run "sudo fsck -kccy" on your internal drive
El 8/8/19 a les 3:05, jimgarr...@posteo.net ha escrit: > Hi Trisquelers, I would welcome some perspective and advice regarding an > apparently corrupted hard drive. > > Last Christmas I gave my brother a laptop from MiniFree, with Trisquel > installed. Just days ago he told me he booted it and it went straight > to a busybox console. Reading up on this, I understand that his boot > partition is corrupted, and some flavor of fsck may fix it. (Or at > least some partition is corrupted, but he said it comes up in a few > seconds.) > > But why would a hard drive be corrupted? With a journaling file system, > it's hard to corrupt it through user activity. Might there be a > hardware failure? If this is the case, trying to fix it would actually > make it worse, if it writes incorrect data to the drive. Right? The > laptop is "new" although of course it was manufactured by Lenovo many > years ago. Is it odd for a drive to become corrupted? (It's a > solid-state drive.) > > He lives in another city, so I can't simply stop over and check things > out in person. > > I could possibly talk him through using a simple application of fsck, > but if it's wise to copy data first, that would probably be too hard to > manage. > > What would you do? > > Thanks, > > -Jim >
