topic Re: /opt Filesystem corrupt and it will fsck in Operating System - HP-UX

/opt Filesystem Currupt And Darn it, It Will Not Clean

PHSC — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:12:33 GMT

Greetings Chaps, just some general advice here please.

We have a 900/800/A500-7X (a relic, I know) server running HPUX11.23

The /dev/vg00/lvol7 /opt filesystem is corrupt. It will not mount and even though a fsck runs on it, it still will not mount. The machine only has console access. There are some nasty looking vx_metaioerr errors that are in syslog.log after bootup.

There are no disk errors in cstm, syslog.log or event_log. The disk is online and claimed.

The actual /dev/vg00/lvol7 LV shows as available/synced.

This server only has one root disk and the disk is online. There are no stale extents anywhere in any LVs.

But /opt will still not mount. Anyone come across something similar to this before?

I’ve attached a couple of console screen shots.

Re: /opt Filesystem Currupt And Darn it, It Will Not Clean

PHSC — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:15:46 GMT

fsck has been ran on /opt but the filesystem will still not mount. If you do a 'mountall' it will not mount.

Re: /opt Filesystem corrupt and it will fsck

Dennis Handly — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:12:25 GMT

Looks like you have I/O errors on it. Time to get out your backups.

You might be able to mount it read only to get some files off.

Re: /opt Filesystem corrupt and it will fsck

PHSC — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 08:53:45 GMT

Hmm, thanks Dennis.

Did a restore from backup. The machien stayed up for a few days then crashed again. We replaced the harddisk and did a further UNIX backup restore and so far so good, the machine is OK.