Anyway so I have a laptop that only boots to emergency shell. There journalctl says that fsck failed with exit status 4 for /dev/mapper/fedora-root If I run fsck I only get back 'fsck from util-linux 2.37.4' Any advice how to rescue this laptop would be appreciated.

On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 21:09 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Apr 21, 2022, at 11:24, andreas.fournier(a)runbox.com wrote: > > > > Anyway so I have a laptop that only boots to emergency shell. There > > journalctl says that fsck failed with exit status 4 for > > /dev/mapper/fedora-root > > If I run fsck I only get back 'fsck from util-linux 2.37.4' > > > > Any advice how to rescue this laptop would be appreciated. > > The ‘fsck’ needs a parameter. Either give the drive > (/dev/mapper/fedora-root) or just run ‘fsck -a’. Thanks. I ran it and it said it corrected all the errors. There were a lot. After it I've been following journalctl -fl and haven't seen anything special there. What I'm wondering about is what I should think of my harddisk? Was this incident perhaps some software error or the first indication that the harddisk is about to fail completely?