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How to Fix Read-Only FileSystem Error on Ubuntu

#linux #ubuntu #terminal #bash

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  • Open your terminal pressing the Ctrl + Alt + T keys.
  • Check your available partitions from your terminal 
df -h
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Alternatively :

ls -lt /dev/sda*
# sda partitionlarının hepsini görüntüle
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  • You will see an output similar to the following. 
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Nis 20 12:48 /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Nis 20 12:48 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Nis 20 12:48 /dev/sda5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Nis 20 12:48 /dev/sda3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Nis 20 12:48 /dev/sda
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  • You will use the partition currently system works on. In my example, i will use sda5 as current partition. 
fsck -f -r /dev/sda5
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  • At this stage, the corrupted and orphan file structures will be corrected one by one. Answer by pressing the y key each time to the questions that appear on the screen. It will fix the corrupted files.
  • After this operation, reboot your system.

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