Sorry in advance for the small essay.
A little backstory...
I've got a customer in our PC repair shop that has an Hp mini 2133 with Suse 10.1.
When she came in the machine would not boot to GUI it was full and could not start a GDM session. I cleared out her /tmp and the machine booted fine. I looked at her Suse 10.1 which was 2 years out of support and filling the tiny SSD and suggested a change to something smaller.
The current problem.
I'm have put Linux Mint Xfce on it twice and twice I have eventually had the following start-up problem.
The error says:
errors found while checking the disk for /
I have used Disk Utility to check for smart errors but it says the drive is healthy.
I'd like to fsck from a live usb, but I can't get /dev/sdb1 to umount.
If the disk is bad and I can prove it then I will suggest a new disk or maybe an SD card install as a workaround. If the disk isn't bad then what is my issue?
What tests should I run, is there a good live usb diagnostic I could use?
Someone from the Ubuntu forums sent me here he said:
"TheeMahn over at Ultimate Edition Linux has been playing with writing operating system to SSD for a while now and says he wouldn't go back to the old mechanical drives. maybe he or one of his good buddies could point you in the right direction."
I have a thread over there too.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1576573