CIRCLE WITH A DOT

It wasn't a Linux issue. My SSD failed.

Okay Linux people, I'm in a bad way over here.

My Ubuntu desktop will not boot. I get to LUKS decryption, I enter my pw, and it goes to an initramfs terminal. fsck gives a massive amount of "./.. is missing. fix?" stuff, along with messages asking me if I want to force overwrites (which I said no to).

A couple nights ago, a mysterious 78MB mounted volume appeared at /media/myname or something like that. A quick search suggested it was leftover from a deleted snap. Weird, but okay.

The GUI file explorer showed a bunch of boot-looking things, but ls -al in a terminal was empty. VERY weird, so I decided to copy a backup into my home dir just in case and delete the original.

I am now feeling like this might be related, but it's still not the behavior I would expect to see. And if I do need to restore that thing to media, I'm worried it won't work because I did the copying and deleting in the terminal.

One other piece of info here is that I ran a SMART check just a couple weeks ago and it said my SSD was fine.

I CAN nuke and start over without losing anything catastrophic, but it would certainly be a big annoyance and I'd like to avoid that if possible.

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