vxfs fsck: could not seek to block offset -205053953 failed

[Mikhail_7]

Hi!

I'm trying to extend vxfs filesystem and have faced with this problem:

g99ss:/ (140) root% extendfs -F vxfs /dev/vgdb/lvol1
vxfs fsck: could not seek to block offset -205053953 failed
vxfs fsck: cannot extend aggregate
vxfs extendfs: Invocation of the fsck program terminated abnormally.
The file system is marked bad. Run full fsck manually.
(e.g. fsck -F vxfs /dev/vgdb/lvol1)
g99ss:/ (141) root% !fsck
fsck -F vxfs /dev/vgdb/lvol1
file system is clean - log replay is not required

Initially /dev/vgdb/lvol1 is 2TB and I have successfully extended vgdb volume group and then /dev/vgdb/lvol1 logical volume to 2,5TB as well.

But as you can see, extendfs can't extend the file system.

In what there can be a problem?

Thank you in advance!

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

1) Did you umount before using extendfs. fsadm is used if you have online JFS and wish to exend without mounting.

2)umount and run fsck then try extendfs.

SEP

[Mikhail_7]

File system is unmounted and I used extendfs to extend my vxfs filesystem.

[Mikhail_7]

Additional info is:

g99ss:/ (155) root% uname -a
HP-UX g99ss B.11.11 U 9000/800 2686884525 unlimited-user license

g99ss:/ (157) root% fstyp -v /dev/vgdb/lvol1
vxfs
version: 4
f_bsize: 8192
f_frsize: 8192
f_blocks: 261013504
f_bfree: 197516
f_bavail: 195973
f_files: 58880
f_ffree: 49376
f_favail: 49376
f_fsid: 1073872897
f_basetype: vxfs
f_namemax: 254
f_magic: a501fcf5
f_featurebits: 0
f_flag: 16
f_fsindex: 7
f_size: 261013504
g99ss:/ (158) root%

g99ss:/ (160) root% vgdisplay -v vgdb
--- Volume groups ---
VG Name /dev/vgdb
VG Write Access read/write
VG Status available
Max LV 8
Cur LV 1
Open LV 1
Max PV 128
Cur PV 2
Act PV 2
Max PE per PV 50000
VGDA 4
PE Size (Mbytes) 64
Total PE 40505
Alloc PE 40505
Free PE 0
Total PVG 0
Total Spare PVs 0
Total Spare PVs in use 0

--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vgdb/lvol1
LV Status available/syncd
LV Size (Mbytes) 2592320
Current LE 40505
Allocated PE 40505
Used PV 2


--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c16t0d6
PV Name /dev/dsk/c18t0d6 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c21t0d6 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c23t0d6 Alternate Link
PV Status available
Total PE 32747
Free PE 0
Autoswitch On

PV Name /dev/dsk/c21t0d7
PV Name /dev/dsk/c23t0d7 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c16t0d7 Alternate Link
PV Name /dev/dsk/c18t0d7 Alternate Link
PV Status available
Total PE 7758
Free PE 0
Autoswitch On

g99ss:/ (161) root% lvdisplay -v /dev/vgdb/lvol1 | more
--- Logical volumes ---
LV Name /dev/vgdb/lvol1
VG Name /dev/vgdb
LV Permission read/write
LV Status available/syncd
Mirror copies 0
Consistency Recovery MWC
Schedule parallel
LV Size (Mbytes) 2592320
Current LE 40505
Allocated PE 40505
Stripes 0
Stripe Size (Kbytes) 0
Bad block on
Allocation strict
IO Timeout (Seconds) default

--- Distribution of logical volume ---
PV Name LE on PV PE on PV
/dev/dsk/c16t0d6 32747 32747
/dev/dsk/c21t0d7 7758 7758

--- Logical extents ---
LE PV1 PE1 Status 1
00000 /dev/dsk/c16t0d6 00000 current
00001 /dev/dsk/c16t0d6 00001 current
00002 /dev/dsk/c16t0d6 00002 current

[Mikhail_7]

It looks like vxfs filesystem size limitation...

In my case, for HP-UX 11.11 with VxFS version 4, it is 2TB.

Isn't it?

How could I use filesystem bigger than 2TB up to 4TB at least, without HP-UX upgrade?

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi,

The limit is 2 TB, have a look at this doc.

http://docs.hp.com/en/5971-2383/5971-2383.pdf

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Mikhail_7]

How could I use filesystem bigger than 2TB, up to 4TB at least, with my PA-RISK HP-UX 11.11?

Is it possible to buy an additional license to use filesystems bigger than 2TB?

[Mridul Shrivastava]

I don't think its possible with 11.11, you have to upgrade OS as per the doc mentioned above.

[Mikhail_7]

I've added a new additional filesystem to an existed Oracle DB MC Service Guard cluster package and have re-divided Oracle tablespaces location to the new fs.