Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:22:36PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Daniel Dalton: > > > > The hard drive in the mp3 just spins up and back down when I plug the > > usb in. Now it's not even showing up under /dev. Do you guys think it's > > a bad hdd and it's time to get a new mp3? > > Yes and no. Th

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel Dalton: > > The hard drive in the mp3 just spins up and back down when I plug the > usb in. Now it's not even showing up under /dev. Do you guys think it's > a bad hdd and it's time to get a new mp3? Yes and no. The hd is probably dying, but if I were you, I would search for a replacement o

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-05 07:25, Daniel Dalton wrote: The hard drive in the mp3 just spins up and back down when I plug the usb in. Now it's not even showing up under /dev. Do you guys think it's a bad hdd and it's time to get a new mp3? Oh and when I ran badblocks, I believe there were some errors, but it

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
The hard drive in the mp3 just spins up and back down when I plug the usb in. Now it's not even showing up under /dev. Do you guys think it's a bad hdd and it's time to get a new mp3? Oh and when I ran badblocks, I believe there were some errors, but it was hard to tell, because there was no outpu

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:33:41PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > rsync has an -- exclude option. How should this be used? In this case? > player's storage. I would wipe it and try a badblock scan. Maybe the > flash is dying. How and what does a badblock scan do? The mp3 player is hdd based btw.

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:26:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-01 05:04, Daniel Dalton wrote: > >If I remount, I can't remove these effected files, the only way to fix > >things is to make use of fsck.vfat > > That seems to indicate that the error is on your mp3 player. Ok. So there is

Re: file system errors

2009-09-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel Dalton: > > However, midway through the sync process, the fs is set to read only as > there seem to be errors with certain files. > If I remount, I can't remove these effected files, What error message do you get? What's in dmesg output? > the only way to fix > things is to make use of fs

Re: file system errors

2009-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-01 05:04, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, Ok, here is what I'm trying to do: Sync music files from my computer, to my 20 gb mp3 player. There is 8 gb of data to sync However, midway through the sync process, the fs is set to read only as there seem to be errors with certain files. If I remou