topic drive failure in Operating System - HP-UX

drive failure

James Sim — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:23:10 GMT

we have vg00 mounted on two drives, drive1(the original drive) and drive2(later added this for more space). Yesterday we lost drive2 and the system wouldn't respond to any telnets. So I rebooted the machine and everything came back fine except that /tmp was gone. That's fine because I can recreate that, but is there a way to determine if I lost other directories. When I compare /etc/fstab with bdf everything looks fine. But is it possible that a filesystem, say /var/, had subdirectories on drive2?

Thanks.

James.

Re: drive failure

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:29:32 GMT

First do a vgdisplay -v /dev/vg00 and see if any LVOLS report stale. If not then you are fine. If you see any stale LVOL's then "lvdisplay -d /dev/vg00/lvolXXX" and you will see the stale extents and the physical volume that housed them.

Re: drive failure

James Sim — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:45:13 GMT

They all come back as "available/syncd". Looks like everything is fine. Thanks.