From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francis Stevens Subject: Re: missing files? Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:07:00 +0000 Message-ID: <4200EC94.2080009@bristow.co.uk> References: <1107318853.18354.214122527@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1107318853.18354.214122527@webmail.messagingengine.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com michael@styer.net wrote: > 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 > ' 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. > Not used resier4 myself, but this looks like an effect I had on reiser3 when the filesystem had gone bad, the only solution I found then was a --rebuild-tree with reiserfsck. FAS