Ubuntu 20.04.1 - EXT4-fs error

Concluding everything said here, it is unfortunately rather likely, that the sorage medium experiences a hardware fault.

The more random the errors are, the more likely it is a hardware fault. Especially with random file corruptions all over the place, without reason. Usually software related issues like that get resolved at least by a full clean upgrade or reinstallation.

You probably need to replace your current sorage medium with a newer, working one. If you have still warranty on this one available, you should make use of that.

You could try using the badblocks utility, however I am not sure how effective it is for solid state drives.

I just read through the bug thread on launchpad and discovered, that the guy says pretty much the same as I do:

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