[debian-non-standard] Strange file system error

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Am 13.04.2010 23:44, Sven Nieslony wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>>> Do a write test on all surface, with:
>>>
>>> badblocks -v -w /dev/sdX
>
> A few days later here my results:
>
> Badblocks didn't find any errors on my USB stick after running on my computer.
> So I've tried again, flashed again the kernel to be sure and copied the root file system to the USB stick.
> After 3 hours the tmp folder vanished and made the system going mad.
> asus-debian:~# ls -alh /
> total 80K
> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4.0K Apr  6  2010 .
> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4.0K Apr  6  2010 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Apr  4  2007 bin
> [...]
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root    0 Jan  1 01:00 sys
> ?---------  ? ?    ?       ?            ? tmp
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Mar 14  2006 usr
> drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4.0K Nov  1  2006 var
> asus-debian:/# file /tmp
> /tmp: ERROR: cannot open `/tmp' (Input/output error)
>
> Immediately after unplugging the USB stick I checked it with the computer and everything was there. A fsck gave me no result and rsyncing (with -avn option) the stick with the extracted tar showed only the usual files (e.g. some files in /var) had changed.

Did you run "dmesg" on the router as the error happened?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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