The root filesystem requires manual fsck

Question

My computer froze. I turned it off and it re-booted with this error:

/dev/sda2 contains a file system with errors, check forced. Inodes that were part of a corrupt orphan linked list found.

/dev/sda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Fsck exited with status code 4.

Please explain it to me what I need to do simply, as I am really new to Ubuntu.

Possible duplicate of fsck error on boot: /dev/sda6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY — David Foerster, Mar 07 '17 at 14:04
@DavidFoerster for some reason the called duplicate was closed as unclear and deleted. I've flagged for moderator attention. — Elder Geek, Mar 07 '17 at 16:11

Soren A · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-27T14:04:56.130

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At the prompt write fsck -y /dev/sda2 to run manual check on the filesystem. The '-y' option will automatically answer yes to all question.

edited Sep 27 '17 at 14:04

answered Mar 07 '17 at 12:55

Soren A

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Is it: fsck -y/dev/sda? – Benjamints Mar 07 '17 at 12:57
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Are there any spaces, and should SDA be SDA2? – Benjamints Mar 07 '17 at 12:58
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/dev/sda2 not /dev/sda – solsTiCe Mar 07 '17 at 13:00
OK thanks but is there a space between -y and /dev/sda2 ??? – Benjamints Mar 07 '17 at 13:13
@Benjamints Yes there is a space there – Elder Geek Mar 07 '17 at 15:42
It seems -y isn't documented?! – Rodrigo Jul 13 '20 at 15:21

The root filesystem requires manual fsck

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