[Sussex] i/o errors?

[Steve Dobson]

Dom

On 04 April 2003 at Dominic 13:22 wrote
> I am getting an 'Input/Output error' when I create a 
> directory on my /home partition.  Funny thing is, I
> _can_ create a file easily, but not a directory.
> 
> I have no clue as to how to narrow down what is going
> on?  I think the partition is using ext3, but I don't
> know how to check?
> 
> Anyone any ideas?

The EIO error which is being returned from mkdir(2) suggest
that there is something wrong with the file system.

Please un-mount the file system and perform a fsck ASAP
or sooner.

Steve