Hello, may question is with regard to the following output of the ls -al command:

What is the reason/meaning of the question marks ("?"), in the output display?


[abc123@myhost ~]$ ls -al /home/userid
total 0
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? .
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? ..
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? altblock.txt
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? bashdate
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? .bash_history
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? .bash_logout
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? .bash_profile
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? .bashrc
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? docblock.txt
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? .eclipse
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? .gtkrc
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? helloworld
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? host.amx.b110808.tar.gz
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? .kde
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? load
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? .mysql_history
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? .netrc
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? tss
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? Z2S0.so
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? Z2S2.so
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? Z2SA.so
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? Z2SH.so

No x permission (for the user running ls) on the /home/userid directory?

Hi, welcome to LQ!
What's the file-system type of the device? If I only saw the
listing, and not the mount point the first guess would be
file-system corruption.