I have a game server hosted on my Ubuntu Server 16.04 and out of the blue I cannot start/restart it because of the following file:
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? proceduralmap.3000.1499245715.149.sav
This seems to be the only file in the fs with this situation.
Now, the server is a dedicated server purchased from a hosting provider.
The drive on which the file resides is a SCSI mounted HDD (/dev/sdb1).
The df -hT output:
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 3.7G 0 3.7G 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 744M 81M 663M 11% /run
/dev/sda4 ext4 21G 16G 4.7G 77% /
tmpfs tmpfs 3.7G 24K 3.7G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs tmpfs 3.7G 0 3.7G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3 ext4 946M 143M 739M 17% /boot
cgmfs tmpfs 100K 0 100K 0% /run/cgmanager/fs
/dev/sdb1 ext2 985G 265G 670G 29% /storage
tmpfs tmpfs 744M 0 744M 0% /run/user/1011
What would be the appropriate way of repairing/removing that file? I would prefer repairing it, but removing will do as well. I already ran:
debugfs -w /dev/sdb1
In which I typed:
clri home/steam/serverfiles/server/rustserver/proceduralmap.3000.1499245715.149.sav
I understand, from what I could find on the web, that I would need to run e2fsck, but I understand I would need to unmount the drive first. I wouldn't want to do that just for this one file, if possible.
Thanks!
1 Answer
What's up with the "structure needs clearing" error message
The error "structure needs clearing" is the error which file systems (in particular ext4 and xfs) return when they have detected a file system corruption problem. Unfortunately, the only safe thing to do to repair the corruption is to unmount the disk and run e2fsck on the file system. (Technically, you won't need the the -f option because the file system has already detected problems and has marked the file system as being in trouble. So when you run e2fsck it will do a full scan to fix those issues and you don't need the -f option to force a check.)
