<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.24.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> It is very important IMHO to perform a low level test of the disk anytime possible corruption occurs. A sector or group of sectors can become marginal. Manufacturers of disk drives provide free low level testing software. I would run the low level test before I tried to fsck the drive, it could mask the problem -or- make it worse. I recommend turning on S.M.A.R.T on your drives and running S.M.A.R.T reporting software on your system. Many times S.M.A.R.T testing or low level testing will let you know if the drive is failing or about to fail and if this is the case, then you are wasting your time running high level OS file recovery routines suck as fsck, chkdsk, drvchk etc. Know your drive is good before you mess with the data. Barry On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 15:20 -0500, Mike Rambo wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:31:50 -0500 "Stanley C. Mortel" <<A HREF="mailto:mortel@cyber-nos.com">mortel@cyber-nos.com</A>> wrote: > Mike, > > Have you tried badblocks and fsck? > fsck was the first thing I did. It doesn't see anything wrong with the file system. Guess whatever is the cause is not something that offends fsck. I did not try bad blocks though. I thought that was for marking bad blocks on the disk so they were not used at all. Not so? All I really need to do is delete the now extraneous entry although if it were it recoverable I think it would be an interesting learning exercise. > Stan > > Mike Rambo wrote: > > I had a problem with a raid 5 array. When I got it back up I found > > everything looks ok except one directory that now appears as > > follows. > > > > ?r---w-rwx 33444 3714798861 2557849272 2593351921 2017-08-26 12:38 > > mdk > > > > Notice the ? instead of the usual d at the far left plus the weird <snip> > > > > I can't even delete this item. > > > > > > </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Barry A. Tigner Electronics Shop manager Physics and Astronomy department Michigan State University tigner@msu.edu 517-884-5538 </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>