Tips to resolve “NOTICE:HTFS Out of iNodes.. ” Error Message in SCO Open Server

Inode, in HTFS (High Throughput File System), is an important metadata structure, which saves the critical information about files, directories, and file system objects. Every file stored on your hard drive contains a unique inode number. Corruption or damage in Inode primarily occurs due to various logical factors including unexpected system shutdown, operating system malfunctioning, improper use of fsck command, virus attack, and more. The data stored in the hard drive becomes inaccessible once your Inode structure gets corrupted due to any of the above reasons. To overcome such situations, an easy way is to restore data from an updated backup. However, if no backup is available, or back file itself gets corrupted, then you will need to opt for advanced SCO Data Recovery software.

As a practical instance, you encounter any of the below error messages when you attempt to boot your system from SCO Open Server:

“NOTICE: HTFS: Out of inodes on HTFS dev hd(1/42)
WARNING: HTFS: error 28: logging disabled”
Or
“NOTICE:HTFS Out of inodes on HTFS dev hd (1/42)”

The same error messages appear each time you attempt to boot your system. Furthermore, you encounter the same error message each time you attempt to boot your system using SCO OpenServer.

Cause:

Two causes for any of the above error messages are discussed below:

There are no free inodes for your file system.
Inode corruption.

Resolution:

To resolve the above error message and access the data, you will need to use “df -k” command. However, if the above command fails to resolve your issue and the data remains inaccessible, then you will need to reinstall the SCO OpenServer operating system. A clean reinstall of SCO OpenServer erases all the previously saved data on your hard drive partition or volume. In such situations, you will need to use powerful SCO Data Recovery application. Such SCO Data Recovery applications employ high-end scanning methods to recover all the lost data. These applications are built with highly graphical user-interface that makes them easy to understand without any prior technical knowledge.

Stellar Phoenix SCO OpenServer Data Recovery is a non destructive SCO Data Recovery tool that performs recovery without altering even a single bit of your data. This SCO recovery software supports recovery from HTFS and EAFS file system volumes and is compatible with Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, and 98 operating systems.

How to recover data after HTFS and EAFS corruption

SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) Open Server is a UNIX operating system that supports two file systems (HTFS (High Throughput File System) and EAFS (Extended Acer File System)). An HTFS file system is the journaling file system that is primarily used by latest versions of SCO open server. Data stored in HTFS file system is considered to be safer in comparison to the non-journal file system. Another most commonly used SCO open server file system is EAFS. While EAFS is a widely used file system, a major drawback of this file system is that it does not provide the same level of security as HTFS does. Corruption in these file systems primarily occurs due to improper system shutdown, virus infection and more. Two major hazards that you might encounter after any of the file system corrupts are unmountable hard drive and data inaccessibility. To overcome the hazards created after file system corruption, you will need to use efficient SCO Data Recovery software.

In most cases of the file system corruption, you encounter an error message such as “Failed to mount /d filesystem”, “Permission denied error on /etc in root filesystem” and more. To troubleshoot such error messages, the best solution is to restore the data from an updated backup. However, in case of absence of an updated backup or backup failing to restore the required data, the best solution to restart your system is by reinstalling the file system. These file systems acts as pointers to all the files and folders saved on your hard disk. Reinstalling any of the file system will completely erase all those entries and makes the hard drive data inaccessible.

To recover your data after reinstalling the file system, you need to opt for an effective SCO Data Recovery application. These SCO Data Recovery utilities incorporate high end scanning methods to comprehensively scan and recover your lost data. Built with highly interactive and intuitive user-interface, these applications are self-explanatory without any prior data recovery experience. Such recovery utilities recover data even after FSCK command is unable to resolve corruption in system data structures.

Stellar Phoenix (SCO Open Server) Data Recovery software is a feature rich SCO OpenServer Recovery application. This read only SCO OpenServer Recovery software works with HTFS and EAFS file systems. It supports recovery from SCSI, EIDE and IDE hard drives and is compatible with Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME and 98.