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Amos Elberg [amos.elberg at gmail.com]
Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:39:02 -0500
Hi. I attempted to run your script at http://linuxgazette.net/issue66/tag/2.html on a directory on a USB drive, ext3 partition, on a gentoo box with a 2.4 kernel. The result (it seems to be from your script, but maybe I'm wrong) is that many of the subdirectories linux now thinks are not, in fact, directories, and for many others, it gives an "Input/Output Error" on ls. Any suggestions?
Benjamin A. Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:59:45 -0500
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:39:02PM -0500, Amos Elberg wrote:
> > Hi. I attempted to run your script at > [1]http://linuxgazette.net/issue66/tag/2.html on a directory on a USB drive, > ext3 partition, on a gentoo box with a 2.4 kernel. The result (it seems to > be from your script, but maybe I'm wrong) is that many of the subdirectories > linux now thinks are not, in fact, directories, and for many others, it > gives an "Input/Output Error" on ls. Any suggestions?
I seriously doubt that it has anything to do with the script; it sounds as though your directory inode is rather badly broken. My suggestion would be to back up everything you can and run '/sbin/e2fsck -p' on your device. In my experience, "Input/Output Error" is the message you get when read() fails on a piece of hardware.
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Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:27:40 +0000
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:39:02PM -0500, Amos Elberg wrote:
> Hi. I attempted to run your script at > http://linuxgazette.net/issue66/tag/2.html on a directory on a USB drive, > ext3 partition, on a gentoo box with a 2.4 kernel. The result (it seems to > be from your script, but maybe I'm wrong) is that many of the subdirectories > linux now thinks are not, in fact, directories, and for many others, it > gives an "Input/Output Error" on ls. Any suggestions?
Heh -- I wrote up a separate script to do this sometime later in issue81, I believe it was. Your errors, however, are as a result of hardware.
It was indeed issue81 - here . - Kat
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