Kevin Van Workum wrote: > I've been having some mysterious problems when trying to delete some > files in my cygwin home directory. It might not be a cygwin problem at > all, maybe hardware. But I thought I'd start here since the problem is > isolated to my cygwin directory. > > It takes about 10-20 seconds for "ls" to print the file list. From a DOS > prompt "dir" prints the same list, hangs for 5 seconds and says "File > not found". If I try to "del" a file from the DOS prompt, I get an > error: "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)". It seems to only happen > when deleting .* files. > > Any ideas? Might this be a hardware problem or related to cygwin?
Sounds most likely to be hardware to me, and that should most certainly be ruled out first anyway. Assuming this is a local hard disk, you should run scandisk on it (right-click the drive; select properties, then error-checking under tools). Since you may have a data error anywhere on the disk you should select "scan for bad sectors" [These are NT instructions; 9x/2k/XP may be subtly different.] In all probability this is OT for Cygwin. -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
