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Author: Michael
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To: PLUG
Subject: Re: rm
What do the p r e f a i l attributes look like?

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 00:28 Carruth, Rusty < wrote:

> You might want to check syslog (or messages) to see if the drive is
> getting errors. (which is to say, getting ready to die)
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> Or use smartctl -a to see what the SMART attributes say (look for the
> ‘pre-fail’ attributes). Or, best, do both.
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> Rusty
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> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Michael
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 22, 2018 8:50 AM
> *To:* PLUG
> *Subject:* Re: rm
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> I ran fsck. It just returned through. So then I reformatted it with
> gparted. So all is well (I guess). I did have to restart the computer after
> the reformat though (don't remember why) but everything seemed okay. Oh
> yeaaaaa! I think I had to restart it because it would not unmount and I
> figured I would try to restart it and if it would gracefully do so it would
> be good. And it did and upon restart the drive auto mounted.
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> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:56 PM Eric Oyen <> wrote:
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> Ok, unmount the drive, then run
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> Sudo fsck <your device here>
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> When completed, remount and then try to remove the files using:
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> Sudo rm -rf <name of files here>
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> -Eric
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> On Nov 21, 2018, at 8:53 PM, Michael <> wrote:
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> this is interesting: I tried accessing 'Neil' from the GUI but get an
> error:
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> Sorry, could not display all the contents of "Neil": Error when getting
> information for file '/media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion
> Drive/Documents/Business/CablingJobs/Neil/IMG_20150205_180721.jpg':
> Input/output error)
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> and when I attempt to access it from a tty get:
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> $ ls Neil/
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> ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180604.jpg': Input/output error
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> ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180721.jpg': Input/output error
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> ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180827.jpg': Input/output error
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> ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180903.jpg': Input/output error
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> ls: cannot access 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180917.jpg': Input/output error
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> ls: cannot access 'Neil/quote.docx': Input/output error
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> IMG_20150205_180559.jpg IMG_20150205_180827.jpg quote.docx
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> IMG_20150205_180604.jpg IMG_20150205_180903.jpg
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> IMG_20150205_180721.jpg IMG_20150205_180917.jpg
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> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:44 PM Michael <> wrote:
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> how do I delete the following files>?
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> /media/bmike1/Seagate Expansion Drive/Documents/Business/CablingJobs $
> sudo rm -rf Neil/
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> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180604.jpg': Input/output error
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> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180721.jpg': Input/output error
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> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180827.jpg': Input/output error
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> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180903.jpg': Input/output error
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> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/IMG_20150205_180917.jpg': Input/output error
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> rm: cannot remove 'Neil/quote.docx': Input/output error
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> these are the only files on the drive.
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