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[–] thisisntright [S] 0 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.

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[–] Disappointed 0 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?

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[–] thisisntright [S] 0 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'

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[–] luckyguy 0 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.

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[–] 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.