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How to fix read-only file-system on 18.04
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 23, 2019 at 23:30 UTC (7:30pm US/Eastern)Frequent change of file-system to read-onlyUbuntu 12.04 lts won't boot after system crash + corrupt file systemUbuntu 13.04 doesn't see my 2TB hard driveExt4 constantly mounts as read-onlycouldn't open output file: Read-only file systemCorrupt external hard diskPartition not showing after fresh installationfsck results in a lost+found file that causes fsck to fail and cannot be removedMalfunctioning USB port: is it safe to mount read-only?External hardrive is read only: how to add write permissions
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Today, after several uninterrupted weeks of happily using my Ubuntu machine again, I ran into another error, this time just after okaying a typical software update. Instead of giving me a successful package installation message, it gave me some sort of notification that "the daemon that allows installation is not working". I can't remember if that was exactly it or not, but I hit "ok" and the box went away. Strange I thought.
Suspecting something was up, I immediately hooked up my external drive to make a backup -- but my drive wouldn't mount. It was visible in Nautilus, but when I clicked on it, it said: 
So apparently my file system has up and decided to go read-only. Is there a way to fix this, or must I purchase a new hard drive and start over? Is there a way to somehow mount my external drive and backup my data first? Can this somehow be fixed using fsck, a command I don't know about?
My system is set up with my / Ubuntu partition on a 250GB SSD, and my /home on a separate 500GB HDD. I believe the problem must be with my / drive, since I can still edit and save anything in my home directory as normal.
I seem to be unable to edit anything on the / drive though.
Here is a screenshot of the errors I got when trying to make a backup using Aptik: 
I'm still new to computers so am rather clueless here. Any help would be really appreciated.
mount hard-drive filesystem fsck
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Today, after several uninterrupted weeks of happily using my Ubuntu machine again, I ran into another error, this time just after okaying a typical software update. Instead of giving me a successful package installation message, it gave me some sort of notification that "the daemon that allows installation is not working". I can't remember if that was exactly it or not, but I hit "ok" and the box went away. Strange I thought.
Suspecting something was up, I immediately hooked up my external drive to make a backup -- but my drive wouldn't mount. It was visible in Nautilus, but when I clicked on it, it said:
So apparently my file system has up and decided to go read-only. Is there a way to fix this, or must I purchase a new hard drive and start over? Is there a way to somehow mount my external drive and backup my data first? Can this somehow be fixed using fsck, a command I don't know about?
My system is set up with my / Ubuntu partition on a 250GB SSD, and my /home on a separate 500GB HDD. I believe the problem must be with my / drive, since I can still edit and save anything in my home directory as normal.
I seem to be unable to edit anything on the / drive though.
Here is a screenshot of the errors I got when trying to make a backup using Aptik:
I'm still new to computers so am rather clueless here. Any help would be really appreciated.
mount hard-drive filesystem fsck
asked 2 hours ago
KalebKaleb
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Today, after several uninterrupted weeks of happily using my Ubuntu machine again, I ran into another error, this time just after okaying a typical software update. Instead of giving me a successful package installation message, it gave me some sort of notification that "the daemon that allows installation is not working". I can't remember if that was exactly it or not, but I hit "ok" and the box went away. Strange I thought.
Suspecting something was up, I immediately hooked up my external drive to make a backup -- but my drive wouldn't mount. It was visible in Nautilus, but when I clicked on it, it said:
So apparently my file system has up and decided to go read-only. Is there a way to fix this, or must I purchase a new hard drive and start over? Is there a way to somehow mount my external drive and backup my data first? Can this somehow be fixed using fsck, a command I don't know about?
My system is set up with my / Ubuntu partition on a 250GB SSD, and my /home on a separate 500GB HDD. I believe the problem must be with my / drive, since I can still edit and save anything in my home directory as normal.
I seem to be unable to edit anything on the / drive though.
Here is a screenshot of the errors I got when trying to make a backup using Aptik:
I'm still new to computers so am rather clueless here. Any help would be really appreciated.
mount hard-drive filesystem fsck
asked 2 hours ago
KalebKaleb
113
Today, after several uninterrupted weeks of happily using my Ubuntu machine again, I ran into another error, this time just after okaying a typical software update. Instead of giving me a successful package installation message, it gave me some sort of notification that "the daemon that allows installation is not working". I can't remember if that was exactly it or not, but I hit "ok" and the box went away. Strange I thought.
Suspecting something was up, I immediately hooked up my external drive to make a backup -- but my drive wouldn't mount. It was visible in Nautilus, but when I clicked on it, it said:
So apparently my file system has up and decided to go read-only. Is there a way to fix this, or must I purchase a new hard drive and start over? Is there a way to somehow mount my external drive and backup my data first? Can this somehow be fixed using fsck, a command I don't know about?
My system is set up with my / Ubuntu partition on a 250GB SSD, and my /home on a separate 500GB HDD. I believe the problem must be with my / drive, since I can still edit and save anything in my home directory as normal.
I seem to be unable to edit anything on the / drive though.
Here is a screenshot of the errors I got when trying to make a backup using Aptik:
I'm still new to computers so am rather clueless here. Any help would be really appreciated.
mount hard-drive filesystem fsck
mount hard-drive filesystem fsck
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