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davec51
Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 522 Location: Virginia
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Posted: Sat 03 Mar 2012, 09:19 Post subject:
"deleted inode referenced" on boot -- Solved! |
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Lately when I boot Puppy I get a message when bootup starts:
"ext2-fs (sdb4): error: ext-lookup: deleted inode referenced 798126"
I get this nine times in quick succession, with different numbers.
The sdb4 partition is formatted ext2, with various frugal installs of Puppy.
Does anyone know what's happening, and how to eliminate the messages?
Last edited by davec51 on Sat 03 Mar 2012, 17:02; edited 1 time in total
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Aitch

Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK
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Posted: Sat 03 Mar 2012, 10:03 Post subject:
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Sounds like file corruption errors, maybe just be occurring at shutdown, and if it keeps happening, may indicate a flakey hard drive
Try copying your drive contents that you want to keep elsewhere, [DVD/USB HDD?] then reformat the drive, and dead/flakey sectors should get locked out
A quick simple check is to boot with
which does a full filesystem check
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/BootParametersPuppy
or, To check the save file, boot from the CD with puppy pfix=ram and go to the directory where the save file is.
In a console/terminal enter Code: | e2fsck -v <the name of your save file>.2fs |
...as checks cannot be made on a live/mounted savefile
http://oreilly.com/linux/command-directory/cmd.csp?path=e/e2fsck
more rarely -c can be used instead of -v for badblocks checks - as above
HTH
Aitch
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davec51
Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 522 Location: Virginia
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Posted: Sat 03 Mar 2012, 11:50 Post subject:
Thanks Subject description: instant response |
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thanks, aitch. This forum is amazing. Every question I have ever asked is met with a very fast, knowledgeable answer.
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Aitch

Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK
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Posted: Sat 03 Mar 2012, 13:30 Post subject:
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You're welcome
Please post what you try and any results you get, especially what worked...
Aitch
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davec51
Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 522 Location: Virginia
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Posted: Sat 03 Mar 2012, 14:44 Post subject:
ran e2fsck |
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I ran e2fsck on the partition. Many errors to correct, but now no error messages.
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Aitch

Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK
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Posted: Sat 03 Mar 2012, 15:10 Post subject:
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Excellent
Will you edit your initial post, subject line [icon top r/h side] adding 'Solved', please
thanks
Aitch
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bugman-2.0
Joined: 06 Jul 2012 Posts: 84
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Posted: Thu 07 Feb 2013, 08:29 Post subject:
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Thank you Aitch, this worked perfectly. I started getting the error after I re-partitioned my drive.
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James186282

Joined: 08 Sep 2009 Posts: 257 Location: Minnesota
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Posted: Fri 15 Feb 2013, 00:32 Post subject:
e2fsck Subject description: Compressed volumes |
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I've got some inode problems on a compressed save file. I tried running puppy in ram only and running e2fsck on the unmounted compressed save file and it lists a series of errors mentioning compression and suggesting I need a newer version of e2fsck. Has anyone had success fixing a compressed volume and if so... How was it done? Thanks in advance for any wisdom on this.
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