bad entry in directory unaligned directory entry

rjo98 · 04-01-2011, 07:15 AM

I have the following error on one of my servers. Is there a way to tell which directory is exactly having the problem? if there is, if i delete that directory, will that resolve the problem or no?

kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #10158084: unaligned directory entry - offset=0, inode=605471640, rec_len=7606, name_len=177

stress_junkie · 04-01-2011, 07:29 AM

I would boot a live CD and run fsck on the partition.

You can find the inode of any file by using ls -i.

Code:

$ ls -id Documents
3047525 Documents

You could combine this with grep to search for the inode number.

Code:

ls -iR / | grep 605471640

Nevertheless I expect that running fsck on the partition should fix the problem.

rjo98 · 04-01-2011, 07:33 AM

Sounds like it might not be too bad of a problem maybe? there's like a TB of data on there, so i'll have to schedule some long downtime to run the check. I'm guessing thats the only thing that will truly clean this up, even if i could delete the bad folder?

stress_junkie · 04-01-2011, 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjo98

I'm guessing thats the only thing that will truly clean this up, even if i could delete the bad folder?

I wouldn't try to delete the bad folder. I think that the results could be unpredictable.

rjo98 · 04-01-2011, 07:39 AM

ok, thanks