Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "deleted inode referenced"
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:26:31
Message-Id: CD571DE8-128D-43E4-8A64-DBFCCFA23381@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "deleted inode referenced" by Philip Webb
1 On 7 Nov 2009, at 17:05, Philip Webb wrote:
2 > ...
3 > There are files in /var /tmp which I can't remove:
4 > the msg is "EXT2-fs error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced:
5 > 16388".
6 >
7 > I got round the problem by creating new dirs, copying everything else
8 > & renaming the dirs, but that leaves me with /bad1 , which I can't
9 > remove
10 > as it contains a reference to an inode which no longer exists. ...
11
12 Have you tried running fsck on the filesystem?
13
14 Stroller.