Forcing fsck and smartctl on Ubuntu

If you’re running into hard drive issues, sporadic error messages, or other problems, it’s time to backup and test your drive.

If you’re on a journaling file system ext4 or other, these errors might sometimes get corrected, but you need to replace your drive.

apt-get install smartmontools

smartctl -a /dev/sda1 (or your problematic drive)

Any errors or queued reads/writes can mean a problem.

Try forcing a fsck.  You need to download and burn the latest copy of Ubuntu.  Boot into rescue mode and you will get a system prompt.  Then run:

e2fsck -f -c -v /dev/sda1

or your problem drive.

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