OSMC Troubleshooting

Potentially corrupt microSD Card can occur when a linux system is rebooted without running shutdown or reboot. This usually occurs because of a power cycle.

Running the following command

$ sudo dmesg Grep | fsck

FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.

The way to repair this is to do the following:

Open a terminal window and ssh into the raspberry pi and run the following commands

$ sudo umount /boot

$ sudo fsck.fat -V /dev/mmcblk0p1

fsck.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)

0x41: Dirty bit is set. Fs was not properly unmounted and some data may be corrupt.

1) Remove dirty bit

2) No action

? 1

Starting check/repair pass.

Starting verification pass.

Perform changes ? (y/n) y

/dev/mmcblk0p1: 484 files, 73404/489976 clusters

$ sudo fsck.fat -a /dev/mmcblk0p1

fsck.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)

/dev/mmcblk0p1: 484 files, 73404/489976 clusters

$ sudo mount /boot

$ sudo reboot