The folder that goes on forever

[watkinsjc]

I'm way out of my depth here.

 

I have recently upgraded my home media server to V 6.1.2.  Everything with the upgrade went flawlessly. Afterwords I added some new hardware, including a SATA card and three new 3TB hard drives.

 

To make matters more complicated, I also decided that it was the perfect time to migrate my existing REISERFS drives to XFS drives.

 

I managed to migrate all but 2 (of 10 data drives) to XFS before disaster struck. One of my existing drives redballed as I was copying from one of the remaining REISERFS drives to a newly formatted XFS drive.  (If it's simpler, DRIVE1 failed while I was copying data from DRIVE7 to DRIVE6.)

 

I installed a spare (new) drive in the #1 position and let it rebuild from parity. Everything finished and appeared to be successful until I looked at one of the directories under a SMB share.

 

I have a share named "Movies" when navigating to this share, there is a (New and not placed there by me) folder inside of that share titled "Movies". When I navigate to this folder it returns me to the "Movies" share like the screen was just refreshed. When this happens the last modified date/time on the new folder is updated.

 

I am assuming this is something simple that I don't understand - some kind of symlink or hard link that was created when my drive failed or during the copy process.

 

All of my data appears to be intact, but I am unable to scan the folder with PLEX because it gets caught in a loop when it reaches the "nested" Movies folder.

 

I apologize for not having any useful syslogs - I wasn't that there was an anomaly until I had rebooted several times.

 

If anyone has advice for me, I'm all ears!

 

-Josh

[watkinsjc]

Nobody?

 

[trurl]

From console or telnet, what do you get with?

ls -lah /mnt/user/Movies

[lionelhutz]

That's an interesting one. All I can suggest is go to the disk shares and check-out the disk structure on each disk. If you find the issue is on one disk then you may have to check it for corruption. Here's the wiki describing how.

 

https://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Check_Disk_Filesystems

[watkinsjc]

Trul and lionelhutz, thanks for the replies!!

 

When I run

ls -lah /mnt/user/Movies

the nested folder is not there! This confuses me even more - I could have sworn that it was present there the last time that I looked!

 

I also looked at the contents of every disk individually and did not see anything abnormal.

 

I will be able to take my array down tomorrow to run file systems checks on all of the disks.

 

If nothing makes itself apparent I have enough space to create a new share and move the 2000 directories under "Movies" to that share. Hopefully then I would be able to delete the existing share with the nested folder.. Any thoughts on this?

 

Thank you both a ton for helping me out here - I'm not well versed enough to make much more progress without some guidance.

 

-Josh