Subject: any way to restore a "broken" directory?
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: henry nelson <netb@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/20/2003 10:25:41
Logged in this morning and found my mail in a shambles.  Seems that the
directory where I had procmail delivering my mail to was somehow "broken."
(All worked fine Saturday evening.)

Can't do anything in the directory like "ls" -- just a "click-click-click"
twice as if it's attempting a seek, and then a message "Input/output error."
If there's no sound, then no message.
	% ls .mail
	% ls .mail/spam
	ls: .mail/spam: Input/output error
	% cd .mail
	% ls
	ls: .: Input/output error
	% cd ..
	..: Input/output error.
	% cd

Time to replace the disk, but is there anything that can be done to salvage
this one directory?  (All the other directories seem fine.)

henry