Greetings,
I have a computer running fc25.x86_64. It has one folder, /home/photo,
with ~100 GB of photographs (about 40K files) organized in many
subfolders named like username/year/YYYYMMDD-event
I use rsync to have a full copy of that folder on an external drive,
connected via USB. This morning, rsync copied many new files without
problems, but at a certain point it failed. It left behind on the drive
a folder which "looks" empty, but it isn't, and cannot be removed.
Commands and error messages are below.
The questions are
- may this be a software-only problem? Maybe caused by "system
overload"? I also had a text-analysis script running, using all the RAM
and CPU it could get. Also, probably irrelevant: at some point one of
the kids plugged a smartphone into another USB port, to recharge it :
- assuming the fault is not in the drive... how should I get rid of that
corrupted folder? I already tried unmounting and remounting, but no
difference.
Thanks,
Marco
RSYNC COMMAND:
rsync -rvt --delete --no-o --no-g /home/photo/ /run/media/marco/TOSHIBA\
EXT/photo/
FILE SYSTEMS:
/dev/sda5 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered)
/dev/sdb1 on /run/media/marco/TOSHIBA EXT type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2)
RSYNC ERROR: many lines like this (many files copied properly before and
after that folder...)
rsync: mkstemp "/run/media/marco/TOSHIBA
EXT/photo/marco/2016/20161116-family/.P1370745.JPG.2esTOB" failed:
Input/output error (5)
RSYNC FINAL MESSAGE:
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors)
(code 23) at main.c(1178) [sender=3.1.2]
SIZE OF ORIGINAL FOLDER ON THE COMPUTER (57 files):
ls -l /home/z/photo/marco/2016/ | grep 20161116-family
drwxrwxr-x. 2 marco marco 4096 Jan 1 20:23 20161116-family
SIZE AND CONTENT OF SAME FOLDER on the USB drive:
#> ls -l | grep 20161116-family
drwxrwxrwx. 1 marco marco 20480 Jan 1 20:23 20161116-family
#> ls -la 20161116-family/
ls: reading directory '20161116-family/': Input/output error
total 0
FOLDER CANNOT BE REMOVED (EVEN sudo rm -rf fails the same way)
#> rm -rf 20161116_1117-family/
rm: cannot remove '20161116-family/': Directory not empty
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