On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:39:38AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend > to have to log on to very often. I checked the bad directory and get > this: > > [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX > total 0 > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? reportX/2009-r...@? > > At this point this is the only file in the directory. Originally the > directory was "report" but I changed it to "reportX" and moved all the > other files out of that directory and into the new one (since my rsync > cron job only backs up specific directories). If there are more files > in that directory, I get just the file names, but this rogue file shows > up in the listing with the directory name first -- every time. I've > tried this: > > [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ rm reportX/* > rm: cannot lstat `reportX/2009-raw\...@\037': No such file or directory
Sounds to me like you may be dealing with a (hopefully) minor case of filesystem corruption. Have you tried running fsck over that device? (Don't forget to unmount it first!) -- Dave Sherohman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org