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Have you tried booting into recovery mode and perform a
fsck
on the drive - using the grub menu? Or you could boot via USB and try the procedure.I am a bit apprehensive about messing with the partition any more than I already have. A delay on a weekly boot isn't so much of an issue but wanted to make sure this wasn't something thats waiting to fail.
At least until I backup all my data I'll try above over the weekend when I would have time to reinstall if I mess it up.
Running
fsck
is a harmless and actually pretty useful operation, esp if you boot using a USB stick.But yes, never hurts to have backups - easier said than done 😂