What is "unattached inode 37138" ?

[cgkeller]

It looks like I have a file system error.
What is "unattached inode 37138" ?
Is this a program ?
Where does it belong ? to /etc/fstab ?

Your help would be very much appreciated.

Charles, Kelowna

 

[stefanwagner]

I guess if it is a FS-inode, you can not decide by the number, which file it has been. It will be different from user to user and change ...

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[arn0ld]

at what point and/or what are you doing when you get this error?
does it repeat?

 

[arn0ld]

I did not see your original post. Did you:

nawlej (Programmer) Jul 20, 2004
try "fsck -a"

??
after the filesystem is recovered, you may be able to find the node.

 

[cgkeller]

Hi arnOld:
Thank you for your answer.
Here i my problem:
My computer says:
- checking Root file system
- / contains a file system error
- unattached inode 37138

Then I gave my Root password, for maintenance:
then the screen said:
(Repair filesystem) 1 #

My question is: what is the right command I should use here ?

I tried to use fsck <Enter> and then the screen said:
Parallelizing fsck Version 1.18 (11-Nov.1999)
If I type "exit" the screen says:
can't create lock file /etc/mtab ~88 (or ~89) read-ouly file system
By the way, my computer has RH6, and I upgraded it to RH7.0

I am really at a loss of what to do, your help would be very much appreciated.

Charles, Kelowna, BC

 

[arn0ld]

fsck -Ap