topic /DEV/ROOT in Operating System - Linux

/DEV/ROOT

Dave Elliott — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:44:04 GMT

Hi Guys
Quick one for you, one of my main production servers is logging the following error.
" vmunix: vxfs: mesg 001: vx_nospace - /dev/root file system full (1 block extent)"

i dont have a dev root filesystem / (root) is mounted on/dev/vg00/lvol3 as it should be, there is plenty of space and only 3% inode usage.
any ideas?

andy

Re: /DEV/ROOT

Michael Steele_2 — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:22:24 GMT

First, this is a linux forum and you have an HP-UX issue.

Second, this is a common problem with the following fix:

mv /etc/mnttab /etc/mnttab_old
bdf

The /dev/root message is an indication that /etc/mnttab is corrupt. Remaking it with bdf is the solution.

Try this first and let me know if it fails.

Re: /DEV/ROOT

Alex Glennie — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:10:24 GMT

hi Andrew,

check out the following http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x491db941255cd71190080090279cd0f9,00.html

Re: /DEV/ROOT

Dave Elliott — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:21:03 GMT

i should have remembered that (what a dimbo) i have moved mnttab and run mount -a and it has recreated it ok.
wait to see if it produces any more messages.
thanks guys
sorry about the wrong forum should have noticed, what a day!.
points assigned.
andy