"deleted inode referenced" on boot -- Solved!

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"deleted inode referenced" on boot -- Solved!

#1 Post by davec51 »

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, 21:02, edited 1 time in total.

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#2 Post by Aitch »

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

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Puppy pfix=purge
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

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e2fsck -v <the name of your save file>.2fs
...as checks cannot be made on a live/mounted savefile

http://oreilly.com/linux/command-direct ... h=e/e2fsck

more rarely -c can be used instead of -v for badblocks checks - as above

HTH

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Thanks

#3 Post by davec51 »

thanks, aitch. This forum is amazing. Every question I have ever asked is met with a very fast, knowledgeable answer.

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#4 Post by Aitch »

You're welcome

Please post what you try and any results you get, especially what worked... :wink:

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ran e2fsck

#5 Post by davec51 »

I ran e2fsck on the partition. Many errors to correct, but now no error messages.

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#6 Post by Aitch »

Excellent :D

Will you edit your initial post, subject line [icon top r/h side] adding 'Solved', please

thanks

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#7 Post by bugman-2.0 »

Thank you Aitch, this worked perfectly. I started getting the error after I re-partitioned my drive.

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e2fsck

#8 Post by James186282 »

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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