you try running a e2fsck on it ? run e2fsck -c too, i think that is the option to check for bad blocks. if its on the root partition you'll have to bring the box down, fastest way is to init 1, mount -o remount,ro / and run e2fsck on it then mount -o remount,rw / and init 2 to get back to normal
nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 11:52am up 75 days, 23:19, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.28, 0.28 On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Debian Mail wrote: > When I do a ls I get: > > host:~/m> ls > file > > But ls -la gives: > > host:~/m> ls -la > ls: file: Input/output error > total 3 > drwx--S--- 3 user group 1024 Nov 3 16:34 . > drwxr-sr-x 28 user group 2048 Nov 3 16:33 .. > > I tried rm -rf /home/user/m but this also gives an I/O error: > > host:~> rm -rf m > rm: m/file: Input/output error > rm: m: Directory not empty > > How can I get rid of that file/directory? > > btw: I have no quota so I didn't exceeded it... > > Stef > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >