On 7 Nov 2009, at 17:05, Philip Webb wrote:
... There are files in /var /tmp which I can't remove:the msg is "EXT2-fs error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 16388".I got round the problem by creating new dirs, copying everything else& renaming the dirs, but that leaves me with /bad1 , which I can't removeas it contains a reference to an inode which no longer exists. ...
Have you tried running fsck on the filesystem? Stroller.