Data loss after power out - fsck: bad inode number to nextinode

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Wed Jul 9 05:13:47 UTC 2008


> What should I do?

In theory,

  clri {special-file} 306176

should wipe the inode containing the bad pointer and allow fsck to
continue, perhaps recovering the files pointed to by that directory
into lost+found.

Definitely try this on a copy first if at all possible.


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