topic filesystem problem in Operating System - HP-UX

filesystem problem

Angelo Jumarang — Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:39:58 GMT

When the system bootup (HP-UX 10.20), it always prompt me to "fsck" a certain
logical volume, /dev/vg03/rlvol7 but when I run fsck there was a message
"cannot read:Blk232", "Continue?" and when I type "yes" it will display the
same error, if you continue again, it will display this message "FAILED READ OF
BLOCK #232, RETRIED 2 TIMES". Anyone, encounter this problem? Please help.
Thanks in advance.

Re: filesystem problem

Atif Malik_2 — Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:03:18 GMT

This is definetly a Hardware problem. Replace that disk(s) that belongs to
vg03. Bring the system in single user mode, recreate the vg03 volumegroup.
Hopefully you've a good clean backup.

Re: filesystem problem

Ken Burke_2 — Fri, 17 Mar 2000 00:22:09 GMT

There is one way that this problem might be software:
If someone had done a lvreduce on /dev/vg03/lvol7
and not reduced/recreated the filesystem then when
fsck trys to read a block that is no longer in the
logical volume you would get this error.

But if nobody has played with the LVM on this logical
volume the yes you do have a hardware problem. Any
filesystems that have extents on this disc (and are
NOT mirrored) will have to be recreated. Once the
disc has been replaced then you will have to use
the vgcfgrestore(1m) command to put the LVM structure
back onto your new disc and then recreate your
filesystem(s).