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    The easiest way is to boot 'live' media (eg. Ubuntu install media and selecting "Try Ubuntu") then fsck your partition(s) from there. By booting the 'live' media your hdd/ssd won't be in use, so you won't have any in-use issues blocking you. You can use commands, or if you boot a desktop media, can do the fsck using gnome-disks, gparted or another GUI tool using point & click. Commented Jun 7, 2020 at 13:43
  • This question is similar to: fsck error on boot: /dev/sda6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. If you believe it’s different, please edit the question, make it clear how it’s different and/or how the answers on that question are not helpful for your problem. Commented Mar 28 at 5:32