Hi, over the holiday period some weirdness occurred and rectifying is
proving troublesome. On a USB drive I have a very deeply nested folder
structure of the same repeating name which probably ultimately ends in
the same name and has a few 100MB of photos in it i.e.
Roger Searle wrote, On 01/17/2011 01:27 PM:
Hi, over the holiday period some weirdness occurred and rectifying is
proving troublesome. On a USB drive I have a very deeply nested folder
structure of the same repeating name which probably ultimately ends in
the same name and has a few 100MB of
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Roger Searle ro...@stepahead.org.nz wrote:
/media/drive/2003/2003/2003 (repeat many MANY times)
/2003/somephotos.jpg. Attempting to do rm -rf may be doing something
(shows in htop, taking a few % of a core) but a few hours later is still
not done. Looking at
Jim Cheetham wrote, On 01/17/2011 02:02 PM:
Not sure what caused your problem, but I like to leave marker files on
my mount pounts, where they exist when a device is unmounted (i.e. not
/media/...)
So when my drive is unmounted I might have /data -- so in there I'll
create a file called
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:05 PM, C. Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
Jim Cheetham wrote, On 01/17/2011 02:02 PM:
create a file called /data/STOP. When the correct device is mounted
At home I automount NFS shares, and at work its also used for USB drives
for backups.
I've spent
Thanks Jim and Craig for the suggestion to do fsck and possibly write
off the partition, as noted it is a backup drive and 1 of 2 that are
regularly rotated because you never know when something might go wrong!
I expect (and will check) that my rsyncs will have the correct files
copied over
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Roger Searle ro...@stepahead.org.nz wrote:
Thanks Jim and Craig for the suggestion to do fsck and possibly write
off the partition, as noted it is a backup drive and 1 of 2 that are
regularly rotated because you never know when something might go wrong!
Well,
On 17/01/11 14:02, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Not sure what caused your problem, but I like to leave marker files on
my mount pounts, where they exist when a device is unmounted (i.e. not
/media/...)
So when my drive is unmounted I might have /data -- so in there I'll
create a file called
On 17/01/11 14:56, Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Roger Searlero...@stepahead.org.nz wrote:
Thanks Jim and Craig for the suggestion to do fsck and possibly write
off the partition, as noted it is a backup drive and 1 of 2 that are
regularly rotated because you never know
