Re: rsync to ext2 filesystem issues

[Luis Falcon <falcon%gnuhealth.org@localhost>]

Good morning, Ramiro!
El Wed, 9 Sep 2026 08:04:53 +0200
Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> escribió:
> Just last night, I tried to delete the contents of the
> `/mnt/datos/COPIA_NETBSD_8I7/` directory using
> `rm -rf /mnt/datos/COPIA_NETBSD_8I7/*`, but the `rm` command reported
> that several directories weren't empty and couldn't be deleted (which
> didn't make much sense). When I checked those directories, there were
> n o files inside. It was evident that there was a problem with the
> filesystem again.I ran `fsck.ext2` from the `pkgsrc` `e2fsprogs`
> package, and it found numerous filesystem errors.
> 

Thank you for the feedback!

It does look like some hardware issues on your device. I would not
trust it much, and probably the best solution is to put it away or you
might lose precious information.

Let us know how it goes with another disk.

All the best,
Luis