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I have a directory on the system, it's "Part IX". I'm unable to remove it by any method. I tried with "sudo rm -rf Part\ IX", this give me error saying 

rm: cannot remove 'Part IX': Input/output error

Then I did "ls -la" and it gives me this 

drwxrwxrwx 1 dilip dilip    0 Mar 29  2016 ..
d????????? ? ?     ?        ?            ? Part IX

So basically, none of the user, group or others have any kinds of permission on it. I tried with chown and chmod (but again, none of the user have any permission, so even that can't be done).

Please let me know if there any alternate method to remove this directory.

Dilip Gupta
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It seems like a hardware problem with the disk.

Please execute the GUI scan-disk / check-disk and fix the disk.

More info here: how-to-run-a-checkdisk

After the disk will be fixed, you can check if the directory exists, and if so - remove it.

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Yaron
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