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Date:      Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:09:38 -0700
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        freebsd@edvax.de
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Data loss after power out - fsck: bad inode number to nextinode
Message-ID:  <48744812.rPIv7fZj6F/Uf5C8%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080709041051.bad001ab.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <20080709041051.bad001ab.freebsd@edvax.de>

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> What should I do?

In theory,

  clri {special-file} 306176

should wipe the inode containing the bad pointer and allow fsck to
continue, perhaps recovering the files pointed to by that directory
into lost+found.

Definitely try this on a copy first if at all possible.



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