Re: inode data corrupted

[Jan Kara]

> I've found a corrupted inode on my root ext2 partition, and ext2ed shows:
> 
> i_mode               = 25755 (0x649b)   octal = 062233 -w--wx-wx
> i_uid                = 3621 (0xe25)
> i_size               = 813892114
> i_atime              = 2590066260       Thu Dec 23 08:22:44 1915
> i_ctime              = 1999214142       Mon May  9 02:15:42 2033
> i_mtime              = 3372617645       Wed Oct  9 16:45:49 1940
> i_dtime              = 0                Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
> i_gid                = 46204 (0xb47c)
> i_links_count        = 1 (0x1)
> i_blocks             = 1211272292
> 
> I'm not sure how this happened, but I'd like to get rid of it (it used to be
> an empty directory). It may have something to do with the version of linux I'm
> running (2.2.14pre2) or with the fact that internal support just switched my
> computer off rather than shutting it down properly over the new year period.
> 
> Any idea how I can clear it out and delete it? I've tried various things
> through ext2ed, but I've not had any success in persuading it to change
> things.
  I think that deleting inode through debugfs and than letting fsck do its
work should do what you need...

							Honza.