The command ls -la has always displayed all the directories first and then individual files. Suddenly it just displayed the directories. But then I discovered that it did display individual files for other folders, the problem was only with one folder: /media/jjj/Movies. And that folder is a Mediasonic USB enclosure holding a 6TB and an 8TB SATA3 disk set up as Raid0.
I decided to umount it and then mount it again, but I kept getting busy error messages, even though anything that might be accessing it is shut down. Finally I just powered it down and then turned it back on. The display lights on the front of the case look normal, but it does not appear. I also swapped the cables, but no joy. The device is 99.9% backed up to my Synology; the only thing I might lose is one movie that I ripped this morning from a DVD that I own. A quick check tells me that I bought the Mediasonic case and the 8TB WD drive in the summer of 2016. The 6TB is also WD, but a couple years older. Where would you start to sleuth out what went wrong? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
