On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 08:03 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 03:49:36PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > I am running Debian Stretch on am eight thread AMD GPU platform. > > Lately, it seems if I have been plagued by surfeit of orphaned > > nodes. > > > > I have goggled the causes. cures and prevention, but have gotten no > > results that make any sense to me. I've been using computer since > > the > > early 1960's but am an organic chemist by training and experience, > > not > > a hardware expert. > > > > The problem may not be hardware. From reading the details you > provided, > it looks like you are using ext4 filesystems on your disks. Is that > correct? We occasionally get people on here reporting problems with > more > esoteric / exotic file systems (cue the cries of protest from > various > corners that super-duper-dijeridoo-fs isn't exotic, and that I'm a > dinosaur) but ext4 is in very wide use and as far as I know, stable. > > Anyway worth confirming what filesystem(s) is/are actually on the > disks > where orphaned inodes are occurring. If it is something more > unusual, > you might have found a bug in the filesystem. Also, do you use > encryption on your disks eg LUKS? > > Just a couple of thoughts > > Mark.
I appreciate your suggestion. Here are the results of blkid: Installed drives: root@AbNormal:/home/comp# blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="8fa0b985-70ca-4d3e-a448-1a419d8b078b" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="b5226506-01" /dev/sda5: UUID="3d0d7ebe-26f4-4f0e-be01-dca7ce9c9132" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="b5226506-05" /dev/sdb1: UUID="d65867da-c658-4e35-928c-9dd2d6dd5742" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0003d403-01" /dev/sdb2: UUID="007c1f16-34a4-438c-9d15-e3df601649ba" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0003d403-02" External USB Thumb drive: root@AbNormal:/home/comp# blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="8fa0b985-70ca-4d3e-a448-1a419d8b078b" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="b5226506-01" /dev/sda5: UUID="3d0d7ebe-26f4-4f0e-be01-dca7ce9c9132" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="b5226506-05" /dev/sdb1: UUID="d65867da-c658-4e35-928c-9dd2d6dd5742" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0003d403-01" /dev/sdb2: UUID="007c1f16-34a4-438c-9d15-e3df601649ba" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0003d403-02" /dev/sdc1: UUID="28C1-0F73" TYPE="vfat" External Backup drive: root@AbNormal:/home/comp# blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="8fa0b985-70ca-4d3e-a448-1a419d8b078b" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="b5226506-01" /dev/sda5: UUID="3d0d7ebe-26f4-4f0e-be01-dca7ce9c9132" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="b5226506-05" /dev/sdb1: UUID="d65867da-c658-4e35-928c-9dd2d6dd5742" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0003d403-01" /dev/sdb2: UUID="007c1f16-34a4-438c-9d15-e3df601649ba" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0003d403-02" /dev/sdc1: LABEL="Seagate Expansion Drive" UUID="F0DAF608DAF5CABC" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="6cccaf93-01" However, I usually gt et the orphaned inodes where there are no exteranl drives mounted. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Consultant www.molecular-modeling.net (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1
