diff --git a/Kernel/FileSystem/Ext2FileSystem.cpp b/Kernel/FileSystem/Ext2FileSystem.cpp
index 9d428b4c13..e6cdc52490 100644
--- a/Kernel/FileSystem/Ext2FileSystem.cpp
+++ b/Kernel/FileSystem/Ext2FileSystem.cpp
@@ -507,6 +507,8 @@ void Ext2FS::flush_writes()
     DiskBackedFS::flush_writes();
 
     // Uncache Inodes that are only kept alive by the index-to-inode lookup cache.
+    // We don't uncache Inodes that are being watched by at least one InodeWatcher.
+
     // FIXME: It would be better to keep a capped number of Inodes around.
     //        The problem is that they are quite heavy objects, and use a lot of heap memory
     //        for their (child name lookup) and (block list) caches.
@@ -514,6 +516,8 @@ void Ext2FS::flush_writes()
     for (auto& it : m_inode_cache) {
         if (it.value->ref_count() != 1)
             continue;
+        if (it.value->has_watchers())
+            continue;
         unused_inodes.append(it.key);
     }
     for (auto index : unused_inodes)
diff --git a/Kernel/FileSystem/Inode.h b/Kernel/FileSystem/Inode.h
index 131d83cbd8..6914563cea 100644
--- a/Kernel/FileSystem/Inode.h
+++ b/Kernel/FileSystem/Inode.h
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ public:
 
     static void sync();
 
+    bool has_watchers() const { return !m_watchers.is_empty(); }
+
     void register_watcher(Badge<InodeWatcher>, InodeWatcher&);
     void unregister_watcher(Badge<InodeWatcher>, InodeWatcher&);