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I bought a Razer Blade Stealth a week ago, took windows off and installed Ubuntu 17.10. Used until today when it started saying that my hard disk was write protected while I tried to save simple files. Then I reboot and this happens:

fsck error on boot: /dev/...: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

for my root partition. I found several answers here telling me to run fsck. I did and it fixed for some time, but then the error happened again.

I just want to know if this is hardware or software related, and if I should worry, or if this is just a bug in the 17.10 version. I'm downloading 17.04 now.

Zanna
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You may have a hardware or a software problem. This is not a 17.10 bug, and installing 17.04 won't solve it.

First, as you've done before, lets check/repair your file system...

To check the file system on your Ubuntu partition...

  • boot to the GRUB menu
  • choose Advanced Options
  • choose Recovery mode
  • choose Root access
  • at the # prompt, type sudo fsck -f /
  • repeat the fsck command if there were errors
  • type reboot

Once completed, and rebooted, start the Disks application. Select your disk in the left column, then click on the "hamburger" icon and select SMART Data & Tests. Review the data and run the tests. This will give you some indication about the condition of your hard disk.

heynnema
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