[plug] Can't write to home directory input/output error

[russ]

Well, something seems odd. As you both suggested, checking dmesg there's a
whole stack of i/o errors:

"is_tree_node: node level 16438 does not match to the expected one 1
vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 8225. Fsck?
vs-13070: reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data
of [4 40 0x0 SD]"

I'll do an fsck now.

But why would root have no problems? It's one drive but /home is on a different
partition to / . Maybe it's just an error within the partition. But I can still
log in as russ and read everything ok.

And I checked all the permissions, they look fine.

 --- Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote: > 
> Any ideas or pointers? 
> 
> As James suggested, check your system logs for strange errors and fsck 
> your filesystems. Additionally, though, I strongly suggest you use 
> smartctl to query your drives and see if they report any bad sectors etc.
> 
> If you see messages like:
> 
> hda: dma transfer error: status=0x51 ( DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 1231231
> (that's not exact, but something _like_ that)
> 
> then you'll definitely want to check your hard disks, cables and/or 
> connections.
> 
> Running SMART self-tests can occasionally be useful too, but the only 
> drives I've found the self-tests really helpful on so far have been 
> laptop disks.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
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Best Regards,
Russ