Reboot, from GRUB Menu -> advance option - recovery Get to the maintenance root shell, and: type fdisk -l to get a list of the drives in the system, or from the output of df -h ,then do a fsck on the / (using it's disk-name from the list, for example /dev/sd2 partition To force a disk check. mount -o remount,rw / fsck -f dpkg --configure -a mount -o remount,ro / sync reboot