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2017 May 09
3
cannot access file: Input/output error
I have a file on a backup usb drive that I get the following error:
# ls -ls P*
ls: cannot access Power usage.xls: Input/output error
How can I delete this file so that the nightly backup will write out the
current version to the backup drive?
I tried:
# rm -f Power\ usage.xls
rm: cannot remove `Power usage.xls': Input/output error
Which you can see did not work.
thanks
2017 May 09
0
cannot access file: Input/output error
...mething is wrong. Possibly seriously.
The blkid command should tell you if this is a FAT32 file system or some flavor of file system. It will also tell you the device being mounted. Eg. /dev/sdc1
If it is FAT32, you would want to unmount it and plug it into a Windows box and run chkdsk or scandsk on it. If it has been formatted to a Linux type file system, unmount it and use fsck to scan the disk for errors with a command similar to "fsck /dev/sdc1". Again blkid or "df -k -l" will tell you the device name. Make sure the device is unmounted when you run fsck or bad...