Orphan Inodes After Power Outage
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
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