Recently I noticed something odd. I haven't been paying much attention
to my logcheck emails within recent months because I'm behind a
firewall, and am not worried as much about outside attacks. But I
started noticing an odd problem. One of my cron jobs is trying to
access /dev/sdh13 (that is, it's running 'find' which hits sdh13 in
its search) but is getting a "permission denied." So I tried accessing
/dev/sdh13 via ls, rm, cp, etc. but I get something like:

rm: cannot lstat `/dev/sdh13': Permission denied

even as root. I can access all other sdh device nodes, but this one is
an enigma. I don't have any SCSI drives on my system.

I'd like to solve this problem somehow. Is there anything that I can
do. I'm not using devfs, and the filesystem on which /dev resides is
reiserfs. Is it somehow possible to access the filesystem without
performing any permission checks? Or, is there some way to learn
whatever is blocking my access to /dev/sdh13 and work around it? I'm
thinking that perhaps filesystem corruption may be involved, as I
recently purchased a UPS and experienced quite a few power failures
due to storms which the UPS wasn't charged enough to handle (or so I
think.) But I'd thought that reiserfs wouldn't corrupt because of
power failures, so I'm not sure whether this may be an issue. Any
suggestions? I've worked with ext2 before, but reiserfs is relatively
new to me, so I'm not entirely sure how to diagnose problems with it.

Thanks.
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