On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joost Roeleveld wrote: >> >> On Thursday 28 July 2011 18:37:24 Dale wrote: >> >>> >>> Pardon me. My brain passed gas here. lol Could it be that my drives >>> file system has ran out of inodes or whatever they are called? That may >>> explain why I can't copy anything to it but it works fine as far as >>> reading goes. >>> >>> Thoughts? How do I check/change it? Headed to some man pages too. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >> >> To check this, you could try creating a new file (with size = 0) on the >> root of >> that drive, like (After you close and save all your work): >> >> touch<mountpoint of drive>/LetMeseeIfThisWorksOrIfTheKernelPanicsAgain >> >> If it doesn't panic, check if that file actually exists. >> >> -- >> Joost >> >> >> > > It worked fine and it was there with 0 bytes. Weird. > > I sort of gave up on this drive. I had a very kind soul to send me a video > card when I did this build. He also sent me a 250Gb drive. I copied all I > could to that but did lose a LOT of my videos and such. Anyway, I'm doing > this right now: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc > > I figure that will put it back like brand new and very blank. I'll recreate > my partition, throw a file system on it and see if it will let me copy back > to it or not. > > While I am at it, what is the best file system for videos? That is the > biggest thing I use that drive for. I had a LOT of NCIS, CSI and other > shows that are now gone. Anyway, what are opinions on a file system for > videos on a 750Gb drive? I had reiserfs on it before.
I had a few terabytes of my own DVD rips on ext4 on a 3TB RAID5 once upon a time. Worked very well. -- :wq
