June 3, 200917 yr I was moving two directories from my cache drive to disk5 -- which is an ESATA drive. disk5 decided to power off for some reason, so there was a failed write = red ball. At some point, I'm going to remove the drive from the enclosure and attached to a SATA port -- I knew the problem was not the drive, but the enclosure, so I rebooted the machine, made sure disk5 was powered up, de-assigned it, re-assigned it and rebuilt it. The cache drive had two directories on it before the failed write: drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 200 Jun 3 05:10 Sin\ City\ (2005)/ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 136 Jun 3 03:31 The\ Graduate\ (1967)/ Looking at disk5, just 9.44MB of Sin City was moved to that drive. However, there is nothing on the cache drive. It's empty. But, looking at /mnt/user, there are the two directories above, Sin City and The Graduate. These are in the root, not in disk5\Movies. I have checked the files, and they are intact. This suggests the data is on the cache drive, but is hidden. I don't care about nuking the data, as I have it elsewhere, but I did a reiserfsck of the cache and nothing happened -- do I need to reiserfsck with some "--" options? Thanks. EDIT: I've found the stray data. It's on disk6! Which was a a completely empty drive. That's very worrying, as I definitely started the move to disk5 -- it can't be a user error, as there are a few files on disk5. What could have happened?
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