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can't see files on mounted disk with ls I can with mc

Hi,

Strange thing. I'm working with an HP packaged cluster 2x DL380 G3 and an MSA500. Yesterday I started a file transfer of a huge directory tree with rsync. Today I rebooted the system and went to check whether the MSA was mounted properly, no problem but when I go to the directory itself and do ls I can see . and .. . Nothing else. However with df -h I can see 40% of the disk space is used. In Midnight Commander I can see all the files??

How can that be?

By the way I resumed the rsync process since not all is copied yet and it starts nicely where the process was "interrupted" yesterday evening by ^c

So the files are really there I just can't see them with ls (and du)

edit: some terminal output:

Code:

root@box:/home/user/somedirectory# ls -tlar

totaal 8

drwxr-xr-x 30 user user 4096 dec 11 09:51 ..

drwxr-xr-x  2 user user 4096 dec 11 09:57 .

root@box:/home/user/somedirectory# du -h

4,0K        .

root@box:/home/user/somedirectory# df -h 

Bestandssysteem      Grtte Gebr Besch Geb% Aangekoppeld op

/dev/cciss/c0d0p1    4,6G  3,5G  961M  79% /

tmpfs                1013M    0 1013M  0% /lib/init/rw

udev                1009M  140K 1009M  1% /dev

tmpfs                1013M    0 1013M  0% /dev/shm

/dev/cciss/c0d0p5    265G  196M  251G  1% /home

/dev/cciss/c0d1      1,6T  610G  924G  40% /home/user/somedirectory

root@box:/home/user/somedirectory#

Little note: you can see that ls outputs a total of 8 (files and/or directories?) that's not correct, it should be about 30 directories and a few files.

Could you present the result of the 'mount' command ??

Cheers.

Code:

user@box:~$ mount

/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)

tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)

proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)

tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)

/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 on /home type ext3 (rw)

fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)

binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)

/dev/cciss/c0d1 on /home/user/somedirectory type ext3 (rw)

user@box:~$

Hmm strange :)
Could you either present the result from fdisk ???
++

Code:

user@box:~$ mount

/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)

tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)

proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)

tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)

/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 on /home type ext3 (rw)

fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)

binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)

/dev/cciss/c0d1 on /home/user/somedirectory type ext3 (rw)

user@box:~$

Just to show you I'm not kidding a dump of the mc screen. It's actually showing the correct contents of the directory I'm not seeing with ls or du :)

Code:

  Links    Bestand    Opdracht    Opties    Rechts

┌<─ /home/user ──────────.[^]>┐┌<─ /home/user/somed ────.[^]>┐

│'n  Naam  │Groot│ Wijz.tijd ││'n  Naam  │Groot│ Wijz.tijd │

│/..        │--DIR│ov 13 16:45││/..        │--DIR│ec 11 09:51│

│/.cache    │ 4096│ov 16 19:16││/1        │ 4096│ov 12  2009│

│/.config  │ 4096│ov 16 17:40││/2        │ 4096│ov 12  2009│

│/.dbus    │ 4096│ov 13 16:47││/3        │ 4096│ei  9  2010│

│/.gconf    │ 4096│ov 16 19:15││/4        │ 4096│ov 12  2009│

│/.gconfd  │ 4096│ov 16 20:52││/5        │ 4096│eb  6  2010│

│/.gnome2  │ 4096│ov 16 17:33││/9        │ 4096│eb  6  2010│

├─────────────────────────────┤├─────────────────────────────┤

│UP--DIR                      ││UP--DIR                      │

└─────────── 264G/265G (99%) ─┘└────────── 895G/1615G (55%) ─┘

Hint: Geef als volgt je gebruikersnaam op met ftps: 'cd /#ftp:

root@box:/home/user#                                      [^]

 1Help  2Menu  3Be~jk 4Be~rk 5Kopie 6He~em 7Mkdir 8Ve~er

Oink??? Problem gone, just like that?!

What could it have been?