missing files?

[michael@styer.net]

Hello.

I'm using reiser4 on a Gentoo home system with a 2.6.9 kernel. Until
recently, I had everything except /boot on one partition. My small disk
was getting full, so I purchased another slightly bigger disk last week
and moved /usr onto a new partition. 

All seemed fine, until I noticed that my nightly cron job that runs the
Gentoo emerge program to check for software updates was failing. After
investigating I discovered that a number of directories were missing.
That is, they appeared when using 'ls' with no options, but using 'ls
-l' produced multiple 'No such file or directory' results. 

Now it appears I'm unable to remove those directories. 'rm -f
<filename>' doesn't work, and rmdir reports the directory isn't empty. I
can rename the directory, but that doesn't fix the apparent corruption
in the filesystem. Also, fsck.reiser4 doesn't report any problems.

Can anyone explain why this might have happened and what I might be able
to do to fix it?

thanks!

Mike