I was copying an .avi file to an external hard drive and half way through the copy the drive reset and required remounting. Consequently I have an empty .avi file on the hard drive. I tried to recopy the file and overwrite, but I keep getting *‘Could not write to media/harddrive/filename.avi’. *I tried to rename to file to be copied but got the same response, I cannot delete the empty file either, as I get an error telling I cannot delete it. I have tried to do this as the user and root with the same result.
Any other file I tried to copy onto the external hard drive is fine, just this one zero length file and the file I was trying to copy, the original of the file. I also tried to delete the file on another computer but couldn’t
External hard drive is a WD elements ntfs, which works great except for this glitch.
OK, swapped over on my dual boot to win7 deleted zero length file and copied original without problems. I am still puzzled as to what happened under openSUSE to cause the problem though.
Filesystem damage. Booting Win repaired it.
On 03/02/2011 09:06 AM, Dwarfer99 wrote:
> WD elements ntfs
sounds like a great question to ask of an NTFS expert…
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