[LarryB1607]

Sorry if posting in the wrong spot.  Received some updates Wed and now I cannot get into my system.  Even an older package does not work as well as a recovery one which goes on forever.  Typing in help brings up a long line of cryptic to mestuff that I cannot copy to post.  Using LLOS 4.8???  I have an old backup, but not sure how to get to it and it would be way to old anyway.  I will run Gparted and find out the drive.  I have  a system and a user partition.  If I need to reinstall, will my user partition remain usable?  This happened once before from an update, but I was able to use an older package , but not this time.  thanks for any help

[stevef]

Don't know if the information in this link will be relevant.

https://ostechnix.com/how-to-fix-busybox...on-ubuntu/

[LarryB1607]

Saw that page already.  The help command is not giving me that response.  I plan to run fsck nayway once I figure out the partition name.  I need something that will read ext-4 partitions in Windows.  Downloaded the newest versionof Gparted live and hope that works better than the older version I have.

[LarryB1607]

The only exe file I can find is a 32bit and a 64 bit.  The 64  bit file does not  open anything.

[stevef]

Not sure what exe file you are referring to.

According to the instructions in the link, this might work from the Busybox (initramfs) prompt.

You can use cat /proc/partitions or blkid or lsblk commands to get your Linux partition details in Busybox

Good luck.

[LarryB1607]

Found the partition name with another utility and ran fsck and said Y to everything and it seemed to fix things.