file system inconsistency


I'm running RedHat 7.1 on a HP Pavilion 6635 PC with Netscape 4.76.
I went to the website http://www.geocities.com/zoomkat/ppswitcher.htm
and its parent http://www.geocities.com/zoomkat/ and found that Netscape
hung while I was trying to bookmark it, and then the whole machine
hung. When I rebooted and the machine tried to deal with the fact that
the file systems hadn't been cleanly unmounted, I got a message to the
effect that an unexpected inconsistency had been detected at a certain
inode and that I had to log in as root and run fsck manually, without the
-a or -p options. So, I logged in as root and executed
fsck /
and later on
fsck /boot

obediently typing y everytime it asked me if it was ok to do something
where y seemed to be the default. I'm sure the program knows a lot more
about what ought to be done than I do, but I don't like not knowing
anything about it. In general, before agreeing to a particular change,
I'd like to be able to ask the system what the file in question is,
when it is only given by its inode, and what exactly the different numbers
associated with it mean (e.g. when it says it has a certain number of something
but nominally has another number). The latter kind of information always
comes up when the machine boots after not being cleanly unmounted. I don't
know what it means for the file system to become inconsistent and how that
is reflected in things I can check directly.

One of the things it asked me was whether I wanted one of the nodes that
wasn't connected to anything to be placed in /lost+found, which I agreed to.
I just looked there and found two items. I executed, as root,
file /lost+found/*
and was told:
/lost+found/#606195: GIF image data, version 89a, 1 x 1,
/lost+found/#607292: broken symbolic link to allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:1053187777

I would guess the former refers to part or all of the page I was looking at,
or maybe a pop-up window connected with bookmarking, or maybe an unsolicited
one from the website. I'm not sure what the symbolic link might be.
--
Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and
* comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.
.

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