After a power outage, a Debian box (without a UPS) had orphan inodes on 4 different partitions: /usr, /var, /tmp/, and /home. The /usr partition alone had 74 orphan inodes. Does that mean there are 74 missing files under /usr? There are no files in the lost+found directories for the partitions. The box seems to be OK. Please tell me there is some harmless explanation.
The WD hard drive is less than 1 year old, but it is a replacement from the manufacturer (an RMA) and might be more likely to fail. A dmesg excerpt is below. Thanks. Win kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda8, internal journal ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1586955 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1586782 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1586272 EXT3-fs: hda8: 3 orphan inodes deleted EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda7, internal journal ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 12232 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 12231 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 12230 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 12229 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 12226 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 12225 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 12224 ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 12223 EXT3-fs: hda7: 8 orphan inodes deleted EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 162939 [!!!MANY LINES DELETED!!!!] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 321338 EXT3-fs: hda5: 74 orphan inodes deleted EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 16126 EXT3-fs: hda6: 1 orphan inode deleted EXT3-fs: recovery complete. EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. /dev/hda5=/usr /dev/hda6=/var /dev/hda7=/tmp /dev/hda8=/home -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]