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I ended up mounting the main hard drive (with the operating system on it) a second time. It didn't mess anything up right away - just when I had to reboot.
Fair enough, this isn't something I've had to deal with before though and searching it doesn't show up much. Have you tried what @Ghengis_Khan mentioned?
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I wonder if this is a possible bug. Just to clairify because you were a little vauge.
You:
Mounted the / when you booted (automatically obviously).
You mounted it again while you were logged into your computer say to /mnt or any folder really.
Life continued on without interuption for a good while.
You turned off you computer and something was corrupted?
It doesn't seem right to me that that should break a computer.
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[–] thisisntright [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I ended up mounting the main hard drive (with the operating system on it) a second time. It didn't mess anything up right away - just when I had to reboot.
[–] Disappointed 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Fair enough, this isn't something I've had to deal with before though and searching it doesn't show up much. Have you tried what @Ghengis_Khan mentioned?
[–] thisisntright [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Some dude on Omegle helped me out a lot. He had to go, but I feel like I'm almost there. Dump of relevant part of the convo:
You: ok, something new:
You: when rebooting from recovery
You: [ 1754,478704] EXT4-fs (dm-1): Unrecognized mount option "x-gvfs-show" or missing value
Stranger: gah
Stranger: okay to back to the root recovery shell
You: moment
You: ok
Stranger: are you there?
You: yup
Stranger: nano /etc/fstab
Stranger: remove x-gvfs-show
Stranger: but JUST THAT
You: not the ' 0 1' after it?
Stranger: Keep that
You: x-gvfs-show is there twice
You: remove it both times?
Stranger: Yes
Stranger: What is left on that line?
Stranger: or those lines?
You: /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root / ext4 errors=remount-ro, 0 1
You: on one
You: and
Stranger: Remove the , after remount-ro
You: UUID=B6A5-EFD7 /boot/efi vfat devaults, 0 1
Stranger: devaults is typo?
You: yes
Stranger: remove the , too
You: is my type
You: *typo
You: kk
You: removed both ','
Stranger: save with Ctrl+o
You: file name to write: /etc/fstab
You: press enter?
Stranger: yes
You: Error writing /etc/fstab: Read-only file system
You: ..............
Stranger: ERrr
Stranger: Ctrl+x
Stranger: don't save
Stranger: mount -oremount,rw /
You: Save modified buffer (ANSWERING "No" WILL DESTROY CHANGES) ?
Stranger: No don't save... won't work anyway
Stranger: Then go back in the same file
Stranger: nano /etc/fstab, do the same edit, save, and reboot
You: so cancel where i'm at now?
Stranger: Yes cancel.
Stranger: Don't forget to do
Stranger: mount -oremount,rw /
Stranger: before going back in nano
You: exactly like that?
You: -oremount?
Stranger: Yes exactly like that.
Stranger: mount -oremount,rw /
Stranger: Okay i need to go away a bit
You: k
You: i'll keep this open
You: let you know if this worked
You: thanks for taking the time
You: ugh i'll be back too. gotta get some food in me by this point.
btw it said 'mount: / not mounted or bad option'
[–] luckyguy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
I wonder if this is a possible bug. Just to clairify because you were a little vauge.
You:
Mounted the / when you booted (automatically obviously).
You mounted it again while you were logged into your computer say to /mnt or any folder really.
Life continued on without interuption for a good while.
You turned off you computer and something was corrupted?
It doesn't seem right to me that that should break a computer.
[–] thisisntright [S] ago (edited ago)
Orly? Yeah, computer froze eventually (possibly because it's a POS and I was running too much on it), and when I rebooted, mounting couldn't happen.
What I did: -Connected a dead hard drive
-Tried to mount it but ended up mounting the laptop's HD a second time
-I know this, because when I tried to select the newly mounted drive, it gave me the same stuff that's on the laptop.
-Both drives are 250 gigabytes in size, which is how I made the mistake
-The external drive I was trying to view doesn't even spin up, so I'm not sure it'd even be recognized by the disks utility.
Edit: Problem solved, breakdown is comment next to yours.