well.... this is what the output of dmesg is. Is my USB drive dead? bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ ./Backup\ bmike1 building file list ... done rsync: mkdir "/mnt/backup/bmike1" failed: Read-only file system (30) rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(605) [Receiver=3.0.9] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (9 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(605) [sender=3.0.9] bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ dmesg | tail -n 30 [74384.693378] type=1701 audit(1373570392.790:842): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7116 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=33 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74384.757274] type=1701 audit(1373570392.854:843): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7116 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74506.322125] audit_printk_skb: 3 callbacks suppressed [74506.322138] type=1701 audit(1373570514.438:845): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7127 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74506.504999] type=1701 audit(1373570514.622:846): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7127 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74506.551324] type=1701 audit(1373570514.670:847): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7127 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74506.607251] type=1701 audit(1373570514.726:848): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7127 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74506.685245] type=1701 audit(1373570514.802:849): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7127 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74507.230515] type=1701 audit(1373570515.350:850): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7127 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74700.145045] type=1701 audit(1373570708.298:851): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7139 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74832.010270] type=1701 audit(1373570840.186:852): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7153 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74832.010299] type=1701 audit(1373570840.186:853): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7153 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74832.010316] type=1701 audit(1373570840.186:854): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7153 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74832.043030] type=1701 audit(1373570840.218:855): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7151 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74832.043056] type=1701 audit(1373570840.218:856): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7151 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74832.043073] type=1701 audit(1373570840.218:857): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7151 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74832.043089] type=1701 audit(1373570840.218:858): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7151 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74832.043105] type=1701 audit(1373570840.218:859): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7151 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [74832.050368] type=1701 audit(1373570840.226:860): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7151 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=33 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [77452.893137] audit_printk_skb: 6 callbacks suppressed [77452.893149] type=1701 audit(1373573461.534:863): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7416 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [77452.893172] type=1701 audit(1373573461.534:864): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7416 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [77452.893189] type=1701 audit(1373573461.534:865): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7416 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [77452.951771] type=1701 audit(1373573461.590:866): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7412 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [77452.951797] type=1701 audit(1373573461.590:867): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7412 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [77452.951814] type=1701 audit(1373573461.590:868): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7412 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [77452.951830] type=1701 audit(1373573461.590:869): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7412 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [77452.951846] type=1701 audit(1373573461.590:870): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7412 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=195 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [77452.959698] type=1701 audit(1373573461.598:871): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7412 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=33 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 [77453.098346] type=1701 audit(1373573461.738:872): auid=4294967295 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=4294967295 pid=7412 comm="chromium-browse" reason="seccomp" sig=0 syscall=5 compat=0 ip=0xb63eb424 code=0x50000 bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ :-)~MIKE~(-: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Michael Havens > > bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ ls -la /mnt/backup > > ls: reading directory /mnt/backup: Input/output error > > This is not a good sign. ls should never return "I/O error"; that usually > means either filesystem problems or hardware problems. After you see > something like that, you should always do "dmesg | tail -n 30" and see if > anything in the output from dmesg has anything like "sdX: unrecoverable > error > reading sector 131072". > > > cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/backup/Backup bmike1': > > Permission denied > > I think this means I need to change the ownership of /mnt/backup > > Not really. As root, you need to create a dir in /mnt/backup/ which is > owned > by your user. > > > bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ ls -l /mnt > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 5 19:06 backup > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 5 19:06 sdc > > When you mount a filesystem on a dir, the mountpoint may or may not change > ownership. Take a look: > > workstation:~$ ls -l /mnt > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 9 15:37 bigred > workstation:~$ mount /mnt/bigred > workstation:~$ ls -l /mnt > drwxrwxrwx 8 mhgraham mhgraham 4096 Dec 31 1969 bigred > > ...bigred is a FAT32 filesystem on a USB device. FAT32 doesn't have > permissions, so they're faked at mount time with a umask of 000 and > ownership > of me. If this were an ext3 device, the / of the device would be owned by > root:root by default. > > > bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:~/Desktop$ sudo chown bmike1 /mnt/backup > > chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/backup': Input/output error > > Are you sure this disk is OK? > > > rsync: mkdir "/mnt/backup/bmike1" failed: Read-only file system (30) > > Check the output of dmesg and see what's going on. > > > drwxr-xr-x 4 bmike1 root 4096 Jul 5 19:06 backup > > Is this looking as it should? What does the 4th place mean (the place > that > > says 'root'). > > ls -l output is: 1 char for filetype, 9 chars for permissions > (user,group,other), link count (the number of things that are in a > directory, > or 1 for non-directories that don't have hard links), user who owns the > file, > group who owns the file, size of the file, date, filename. > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >