Searching by File ID Number...

I've been trying to use idefrag and am coming up a message that says there is a problems with reading the file extents for file: 2,235,692.
How can I find this file on my system?
Thanks in advace for any help- without defraging I can't partition...
Ben

Try this one:
find -inum number

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