opensuse leap 15.4 on asus l210
I have unreadable/unremovable files on a usb fs. Could someone kindly explain the following sequence of commands, and what I might do to get rid of the problem?
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $ ls -l
total 104
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 106496 Jul 21 13:33 i/
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $ cd i
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik/i $ ls -l
ls: reading directory '.': Input/output error
total 0
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik/i $ cd ..
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $ rm -r -f i
rm: cannot remove 'i': Directory not empty
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $ sudo rm -r -f i
[sudo] password for root:
rm: cannot remove 'i': Directory not empty
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $ cd i
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik/i $ rm -f *
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik/i $ cd ..
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $ rmdir i
rmdir: failed to remove 'i': Directory not empty
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $ ls -l i/*.*
ls: cannot access 'i/*.*': No such file or directory
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $ ls -l i
ls: reading directory 'i': Input/output error
total 0
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $
Whatever is on this fs was not created by chattr
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $ sudo chattr -i i/*.*
[sudo] password for root:
chattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat i/*.*
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $ sudo lsattr i/*
lsattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat i/*
If its any help, fdisk lists the device concerned as
Disk /dev/sda: 4.55 TiB, 5000947302400 bytes, 9767475200 sectors
Disk model: Elements 2621
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: F7568B1B-3550-47AB-99FE-0C493E536C41
Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 9767473151 9767471104 4.5T Microsoft basic data
As suggested by Kamil Maciorowski's comment below:
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.2 2021-09-14 r5237 [x86_64-linux-5.14.21-150400.24.33-default] (SUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Elements / My Passport (USB, AF)
Device Model: WDC WD50NDZW-11BCSS0
Serial Number: WD-WX72DB136EXY
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2bf8fe6d0
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity: 5,000,947,523,584 bytes [5.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 4800 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
TRIM Command: Available, deterministic
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Wed Dec 7 13:16:33 2022 PST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 1500) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x1b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 11) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x30b5) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 253 253 021 Pre-fail Always - 4433
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 335
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 283
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 281
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 264
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 198 198 000 Old_age Always - 6499
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 120 105 000 Old_age Always - 32
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 241 -
Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported
$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
└─sda1 ntfs Elements
F0220C5C220C29E4 2.5T 45% /media/q/Elements
/media/q/Elements/bkp/Convert/Adams/Shardik $ rm -fr i|sudo dmesg|tail
rm: cannot remove 'i': Directory not empty
[ 16.042041] rtw_8821ce 0000:02:00.0: stop vif 52:41:fc:92:46:60 on port 0
[ 16.557898] rtw_8821ce 0000:02:00.0: start vif 20:4e:f6:78:42:fd on port 0
[ 20.604282] wlan1: authenticate with d0:15:a6:0f:9a:d1
[ 21.137016] wlan1: send auth to d0:15:a6:0f:9a:d1 (try 1/3)
[ 21.137852] wlan1: authenticated
[ 21.189079] wlan1: associate with d0:15:a6:0f:9a:d1 (try 1/3)
[ 21.190102] wlan1: RX AssocResp from d0:15:a6:0f:9a:d1 (capab=0x1 status=0 aid=2)
[ 21.190122] rtw_8821ce 0000:02:00.0: sta d0:15:a6:0f:9a:d1 joine d with macid 0
[ 21.190412] wlan1: associated
[ 21.192561] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan1: link becomes ready
Input/output errormeans the filesystem is not healthy, possibly because of the drive not being healthy on the hardware level.dmesgjust after the error may reveal something more. What is the output ofsmartctl -a /dev/sda? Is the filesystem NTFS? I believe there are no tools in Linux that can fully replacechkdskfor NTFS, so if the hardware turns out fine then you will probably need to usechkdskin Windows to repair the filesystem.