I'm having some weird issues with Helix (a Sid / Knoppix based distribution). For whatever reason, I periodically get an "input/output error" while a disk is mounted, and the only way to fix it is to umount and then mount again via ntfs-3g. Here's a more detailed list of what I've been doing.
So, I mount with ntfs ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/bigusb/ Once I see that ok, then I create folders and files in that mount point. After a while, however, something dies, and if I do an "ls", I'll get "input/output error", and I have to umount /dev/sdb1 and if says the device is busy, then I close whatever other thing (usually LinEn or another terminal window) that might be accessing it. Once it dismounts, then I try it again with ntfs-3g. I've never had this problem on any other implementation of ntfs-3g (on Knoppix or on the Gentoo-based System Rescue CD), and I'm wondering how to best narrow down the problem. i.e. (1) quirks with ntfs-3g? (2) quirks with LinEn (Encase imaging tool)? (3) hard drive errors? In one case, I simply took out the hard drive, formatted in Windows XP (e.g. format e: /fs:ntfs /q), popped it back in, remounted, and all was ok for a while. Perhaps there is a "better" way to do this in the Debian / Linux environment? Thanks
