[gentoo-user] "deleted inode referenced"

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

In the course of trying to get X to work on my ASUS 1005HA netbook,
I had to power the machine off several times.  In the course of this,
some damage seems to have occurred to the file system.
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 remove
as it contains a reference to an inode which no longer exists.
NB this is not the more common problem of a bad file name,
which cb dealt with simply by removing the inode (which still exists).

Can anyone help ?

BTW is Ext2 the best fs for this machine ?  Might Ext3 or Ext4 be better ?
-- I use Reiserfs on my desktop machines.

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