Help. Cygwin corrupting files

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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.


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