I have a 2T external hard drive connected via USB to the desktop. It's formatted ext4. It has four directories: /salmo-root/, /salmo-home/, /salmo-opt/, and /salmo-data/. In /etc/fstab/ it's entered as: /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backup ext4 defaults 1 2
/etc/divish/master.conf has been written (mimics that of the old server). Following the HOWTO-DIRVISH I mounted /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/backup (fdisk identified that drive as sdc; sda is the SSD boot drive and sdb is the hard disk with everything else. Navigating to /mnt/backup/salmo-data/ (since that's the first alphabetically in the list of directories) I made the dirvish/ directory and created default.conf containing: client: r...@salmo.appl-ecosys.com tree: /data xdev: 0 index: gzip Saved and navigated to /salmo-home/. Created the dirvish subdirectory and the default.conf file. But when I tried saving that file I was told: error opening file: Input/output error #ls reading directory '.': Input/output error Now I cannot list files or directories anywhere on that backup drive: [root@salmo /mnt/backup/salmo-opt/dirvish]# ls ls: reading directory '.': Input/output error [root@salmo /mnt/backup/salmo-opt/dirvish]# cd .. [root@salmo /mnt/backup/salmo-opt]# ls ls: reading directory '.': Input/output error [root@salmo /mnt/backup/salmo-opt]# cd .. [root@salmo /mnt/backup]# ls ls: reading directory '.': Input/output error [root@salmo /mnt/backup]# If I umount and remount the drive I can add one default.conf to a backup subdirectory. What might I have done incorrectly? Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug