Hi, I am getting some strange errors from an openBSD system that I am using as a backup server.
I transfer some files onto the system via ftp. (1260 files with a total size of 60G.) The transfer works OK and then I try to check the newly arrived files. The last file in the set is an md5 file of the whole set. I now try: sum -c abc.md5 > result.txt I get an error. First, I see a number of IO errors and then finally a message that the file system is full. (It is not.) sum: abc.md5: read error: Input/output error /home2: write failed, file system is full So, I power the system down and then try to reboot. I get the same error and eventually, the system refuses to reboot claiming that one block on the disk cannot be read. I then moved the disk to a Win2K machine and ran a SMART monitor on the drive. The monitor reported that the drive was perfect - no bad sectors and no read errors. What can be going on here? It does not look like a disk error - surely SMART would notice it if it was? It does not look like a hardware error elsewhere in the system - I plugged in another drive and the checksums on that drive all turned out OK. I`m a bit stuck here. Any suggestions welcome. The system is based on a Gigabyte EP35 board and the drive is an almost new Samsung 1.5TB model. It is split into two partitions, first - where I see the error - is 820G and the second is the rest. I have tried ffs and ffs2 with the same result. jpoc
