rsync Input/output error

devGOD

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does anyone know why i'm receiving this error?

root@znot [/home/devx6z]# rsync -vrplogDtH /old/home/devx6z /home
building file list ... readlink devx6z/public_html: Input/output error
readlink devx6z/tmp/urchin/configs: Input/output error
 

DigitalN

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Sep 23, 2004
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You may have bad blocks on that sector or the data is corrupt/unreadable.

unmounting the partition and running fsck on it, may fix it, don't attempt anything like that if you aren't experienced with file systems and what not, if the data is important to you.