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Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files


Chuck wrote:
At first I thought my recent problems with cygwin were limited to the
occasional "ls" command listing nothing. Run it again an it works
(usually). Now the problems are getting worse. I tried to "rm" a file
that I own and it didn't fully delete it. It corrupted it. An ls of the
file shows this (that is, when the ls command works).

$ ls -l
ls: cannot access bin_dirs.txt: No such file or directory
total 14
drwxr-xr-x+  2 CHamilto Domain Users    0 Feb  9 14:50 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 19 CHamilto Domain Users    0 Feb  9 14:33 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 CHamilto Domain Users 3196 Feb  9 14:48 all_bin_dirs.txt
???????????  ? ?        ?               ?            ? bin_dirs.txt
-rwx------   1 CHamilto Domain Users  368 Feb  9 14:33 chuck.sh*
-rwxrwx---   1 CHamilto Domain Users 3069 Feb  9 11:06 cleanup_rman.sh*
-rw-r--r--   1 CHamilto Domain Users 1491 Feb  9 14:08 servers
-rwxrwx---   1 CHamilto Domain Users  270 Feb  9 14:50 upload.sh*


What is up with that? I can't access or remove the bin_dirs.txt file now with either cygwin or windows. I tried resetting the owner but chown fails too.

$ chown "CHamilto:Domain Users" bin_dirs.txt
chown: cannot access `bin_dirs.txt': No such file or directory


I have tried reinstalling cygwin and coreutils to no avail. Did something happen in a recent release of cygwin to explain this bizarre behavior? I've been using cygwin for years and never experienced anything like this. Please help!


Have you checked if you can do similar operations with DOS commands?  I
believe what you're seeing here is a hardware (probably disk) problem.
Years ago I had a failing disk pick off files randomly for a while until
the whole thing finally went.


-- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746

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