Input/output error

[jhw]

I created /home/john and put all kinds of files and other dirs there...then I accidentally tried:
#adduser john
adduser: user john already exists

Now it seems all my files in /home/john are gone!
#ls /home/john
ls: /home/john:Input/output error

....any ideas? Thanks,

[error27]

I'm guessing something is screwed up with permisions...

chown -R root.root /home/john/*

now can you view it as root?

[jhw]

Well magically my files have returned. I think I know the problem....samba. I had /home/john shared. After a reboot things came back to normal (without running samba).