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I recently used gparted on the Ubuntu live USB to move/extend my / and /home partitions. No errors arose but now every time I boot Ubuntu, I get a long filesystem check that I can't skip.

I have used the live USB to run fsck on both / and /home this question but this made no difference. This question also suggests forcing a skip of the check but I would rather avoid this (and even when I tried this, it didn't stop the check).

What are the next steps I can take to try to resolve this issue?

For reference, I am using Ubuntu 20.04 dual booted with Windows (which boots fine) on an NVMe drive.

To add extra details: I've checked the Maximum mount count and Check interval for both partitions and these are disabled.

Tim Hargreaves
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As far as I understood NVMEs are different from the HDD or SDD disks. So fsck might not get the results you need.

First you should check the NVME wearout of your "disk".

In addition to that you may have a look at the nvme-cli commandline tool. It might help you to get it aligned.

Edit

As sudodus suggested I'd like to clarify my answer. Instead of using the fsck command (or the equivalent in gparted) to format a nvme, the nvme-cli command offers command to do so.

nvme-format,which is part of the nvme-cli suite, will format a namespace (partition).In addition multiple different analyze commands will narrow down the problem of your nvme.

I'm using a nvme on debian, which I had to format with this tool during setup (that was 4 years ago), because the standard tools did not work....

See the debian man page as well

kanehekili
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