I checked my /var/log/messages log file, on every 2 secs interval there is some log getting added..
Mar 20 11:42:30 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 184844
Mar 20 11:42:32 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 184844
Mar 20 11:42:34 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 184844
Mar 20 11:42:36 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 184844
Mar 20 11:42:38 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 184844
Mar 20 11:42:40 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 184844
Mar 20 11:42:42 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 184844
Mar 20 11:42:44 localhost kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 184844
I didn't do any kind of operation on the system, but still error is getting logged. I suppose FS is corrupted.
What should I do?
Best Answer
I encountered this error before as well. A manual file system check fixes it, but you can consider some files lost already.
Syntax:
It is best to do this in single user mode.