Re: ls: file: Input/output error

1999-11-04 Thread aphro
debian > debian >What could have caused this I/O error anyway? almost anything, if the system crashed, or had some bad physical sectors on it ..or a program crashed while it was writing to disk may of curropted some stuff..hard to tell. you can always avoid a reboot and you can always (i believe)

Re: ls: file: Input/output error

1999-11-04 Thread Debian Mail
> you try running a e2fsck on it ? Yes, but it was /home which was always busy, although I stoped every process I could think of using files in /home. Isn't there a tool to check which process is using a certain part of the filesystem? > run e2fsck -c too, i think that is the option to check for

Re: ls: file: Input/output error

1999-11-03 Thread aphro
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