Related to usbdrive

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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Swapana Ghosh wrote:
>        I am facing problem in retrieving the data from the USB drive.. Today we
> have rebooted the server. After that we mount the usbdrive also. It is showing
> as follows:
>
> /dev/sda1            117189600 117189600         0 100% /usbdrive

Where are you getting that?

>        It was showing the same before the server reboot. The drive was full
> ..But we could go to the drive and do anything...

Define 'do anything'.

>        Can anybody give me any hints that  how i will see the data.. Though it
> seems the data is there but when i am trying to do *ls -l*  the result is as
> follows:
> _____________________________________________________
> [root at server /]# cd /usbdrive
> [root at userver usbdrive]# ls -la
> total 68
> drwxr-xr-x  258 root     root        65536 Dec 31  1969 .
> drwxr-xr-x   29 root     root         4096 Jan  5 16:57 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1980 4kl?5kl?
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1980 -kl?
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1980 %kl?&kl?
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1980 ?kl??kl?
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1980 ?u?

What filesystem is this?  What kernel are you using?

> Moreover i am watching the /usbdrive became *write protected*, i am unable to
> create any file there.

How are you 'watching' it become write protected?  Are there any errors in
dmesg or messages?

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