On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
The problem was a bad ssector on /home. Fsck solved it.
Question: how to fsck on / which is mounted and busy in emergency mode?
I think the answer is you don't.
Boot from a floppy or something and run fsck from there.
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