RE: random file corruption on NTFS

2006-05-11 Thread Tony Abernethy
Wild guess, but that sounds a lot like a disk drive going bad. An error message like The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. There is essentially no way that an application (including rsync) can cause that kind of thing. You probably can cause that by messing with the controller

Re: random file corruption on NTFS

2006-05-11 Thread darrin hodges
Hi Tony,the volume was previously a FAT32 before it was reformatted to NTFS.  I've wonderedabout the drive being dodgy, is it that FAT32 is more leanient in terms of file errors?thanks.Darrin. On 5/12/06, Tony Abernethy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wild guess, but that sounds a lot like a disk

RE: random file corruption on NTFS

2006-05-11 Thread Tony Abernethy
I wouldn't say that FAT32 is "lenient", HOWEVER it is almost certain that NTFS is extremely dependent on there not being ANY errors anywhere else, or VERY bad things will be done. Cheap shot, if you can identify files (or clusters of files) is to rename the stuff something like BAD-DATA ---