[RESOLVED] mkdir from '/' strangeness

[jamez]

I decided to create a /data directory to hold some nmon data and noticed something weird with mkdir. Running mkdir from root seemed to give me unpredictable results. mkdir would often complain 'Invalid argument' , and it seemed to work sometimes if I passed mkdir an option like '-v' or 'p', but that wasn't consistent.

# pwd
/

# mkdir data2
mkdir: cannot create directory `data2': Invalid argument

# mkdir -v data2
mkdir: created directory `data2'

# rm -rf data2

# mkdir -p data2
mkdir: cannot create directory `data2': Invalid argument

# mkdir -v data2
mkdir: cannot create directory `data2': Invalid argument
(worked a minute ago!)

I wonder what is going on here?

I'm doing this on my pink pogo with newly installed arch/arm linux.

[jamez]

Oops - meant to post this in the pogoplug/dockstar forum. Sorry about that.

[xenoxaos]

Is your drive full? If it is, that would be a good reason for failure. If not, pull the drive out and run fsck on it from a linux box.

[jamez]

No, drive is not full. Good idea on fsck. I see now that I have some complaints in the system log when booting:

EXT2-fs (sda1): warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended

I will try fsck from another box.

Thanks!

[jamez]

That seemed to work. i no longer have bizarre directory creation errors.

I ran the fsck from a vmware instance of ARCH linux running on my windows pc and it found/fixed several errors. I got the device id of the usb stick by running blkid.

Good call - thanks!