'ls' command on a VM shows 'Input/output error'
Issue
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ls
command on a mount point on VMware guest machine shows IO errors:$ mount | grep sdb /dev/sdb on /mnt/sdb type ext4 (rw) $ cd /mnt/sdb $ ls -la ls: reading directory .: Input/output error total 0
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7
- VMware virtual machine
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