My directory is "Not a directory"???

[nickstedman]

A directory shared with VirtualBox, is no longer accessible after recovering from a grub error 17 which required editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst to make it point to my linux partition. The directory is on a different partition. In fact all the files and folders on that partition which are associated with Virtualbox appear as blue diamonds and are not recognized as anything. All I care about at this point is recovering the files from the inaccessible folder. Any help would be appreciated. I am migrating this thread here from this one as it seems to have more to do with the OS...I think??

[jazzgossen]

Please post the output of "sudo fdisk -l" and perhaps also "mount".

[nickstedman]

nicholas@jelly:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for nicholas:

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd8000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9 72261 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 10 270 2096472 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 271 8915 69432928 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 8916 14594 45616567+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 10827 14119 26450988 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 14120 14266 1180736 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 14267 14594 2620416 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

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nicholas@jelly:~$ mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
/dev/sda3 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,relatime)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devgid=46,devmode=664)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/nicholas/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=nicholas)
/dev/scd0 on /media/XP2_PER_ENG type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000,utf8)

[nickstedman]

And here is the output of ls -la

nicholas@jelly:/media/disk$ ls -la
ls: VBox: Input/output error
total 3961848257
drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 4096 2009-04-30 18:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-05-01 18:53 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2009-04-26 07:32 dev
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 16384 2007-10-11 21:01 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx 3 nicholas nicholas 4096 2008-04-02 20:39 Music
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2009-04-26 07:32 proc
---Sr-S-w- 1795 2867168839 15062318 2026646492708272234 1986-07-19 22:11 .Trash-1000
drwxrwxrwx 23 nicholas nicholas 4096 2008-09-30 08:50 .Trash-nicholas
?rwxrwxrwx 68 29256 12290 2684551289 1970-01-07 06:28 VBox
?r-xr-S-wT 27246 1414883941 1128674938 1718169634 2037-10-12 09:53 .VirtualBox
drwxrwxrwx 4 nicholas nicholas 4096 2009-05-01 18:17 vm
cr-sr-S--- 53995 448454453 2665249648 50, 133 1926-10-04 06:37 VMshare2

The permissions are crazy.
VMshare2 is the folder I want to recover...

Does anyone have any ideas??