Today I saw that Ubuntu was cleaning up orphaned inodes. Here's the boot log message:
/dev/sda2: clearing orphaned inode 396229 uid=1000 gid=1000 mode 0100600 ,si
/dev/sda2: clearing orphaned inode 1300596 uid=1000 gid=1000 mode 0100600 ,si
/dev/sda2: clean 578019/30049216 files, 22460578/121120000 blocks
Along with this:
[FAILED] Failed to start Postfix Mail Transport Agent, instance -)
The boot then resumes. I rebooted my system many times and the log varies.Sometimes the Postifix error never shows, sometimes it tells me I'm missing lowerdir, and sometimes it just shows me the first three lines above.Upon further investigation, I managed to pinpoint the errors to /dev/sda2, but I cant seem to tamper with it, even as superuser.After that I ran a partial fsck on the filesystem and it tells me this:
fsck from util-linux 2.36.1
e2fsk 1.46.3 (27-Jul-2021)
Warning! /dev/sda2 is mounted,
\Warning : skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list is found. Fix? no
Inode 390774 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED.
Inode 390808 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED.
Deleted Inode 1300596 has zero dtime. Fix? no
Inode 2087213 extent tree (at level 1) could be shorter. Optimize? no
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Block bitmap differences: -(189466--189467) -(189956--189963) -(261644--261652)
Fix? no
Free blocks count wrong (98659422, counted=98643826).
Fix? no
Inode bitmap differences: -390774 -390808 -1300596
Fix? no
/dev/sda2: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors **********
/dev/sda2: 578019/30049216 files (0.8% non-contiguous), 22460578/121120000 blocks
At this point, I have tried to umount the filesystem to actually fix the error, but it tells me it's busy, even though I ran the "kill all processes command".I also tried to do it through grub shell prompt, with no luck either.I may be forgetting something (I'm still a beginner), but I would like some help with fixing this filesystem
Also, I would prefer a method that does not require a live usb, simply because I dont have one, and It's pretty hard to get one in my area, but i am still open to all solutions.
