fsck -o full doesnt work?

[Ryan Novosielski]

I attempted a full fsck, and got the following:

# fsck -F vxfs -o full /dev/vg00/rlvol8
vxfs fsck: file system had I/O error(s) on user data.
log replay in progress
vxfs fsck: fsck read failure bno = 200, off = 0, len = 32768
full file system check required, exiting ...

...I specified a full check. Why does it refuse to do it?

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

add the -o full,nolog option.

[Steven E. Protter]

If it still fails after A. Clay's suggestion you may have a problem with the disk the filesystem is sitting on.

dmesg

Get ready to call hardware.

SEP

[Sundar_7]

Hi,

Looks like a hardware problem than just the metadata corruption.

# dd if=/dev/vg00/rlvol8 of=/dev/null bs=1024k

If you see any error messages from dd then get the disk replaced.

Sundar

[Ryan Novosielski]

Right you are. I do get errors from dd and will be replacing the disk. I just wanted to get to a point where I could possibly recover data (it's not doing too badly for a disk failure). The nolog option helped, as fsck refused to do full passes otherwise. I can now mount the FS and move from there. Thanks to all who were able to help!

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Ryan,

you are new here and in case you haven't seen it have a look at this:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

thanks,

Michael

[Durand_1]

Hi, i got exactly the same problem as Ryan

root@thonon:/# fsck -F vxfs -py -o full,nolog /dev/ISIM/datab4
vxfs fsck: /dev/ISIM/datab4:file system had I/O error(s) on meta-data.
vxfs fsck: /dev/ISIM/datab4:fsck read failure bno = 4311244, off = 0, len = 1024
/dev/ISIM/datab4:file system check failure, aborting ...
you have mail in /var/mail/root
root@thonon:/#

But even with the nolog option I cannot get it fixed.
I rebooted the system and all other FS on the same VG are online.
What next please ?
Thanks for helping
Philippe

[Jannik]

have a look at this:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=200266&admit=-682735245+1143117670776+28353475

You should try the dd to see if you get any errors.