Is this box 'stuck' doing fsck

[Mark McDonald_2]

Hi

This box crashed last night, possibly due to failed aircon and overheating. I booted it back up this morning (air con is fixed) HP were called out to look at this and say there are no reported hardware errors.

The box started to boot, then went to fsck ing all of the file systems. It has been doing this for nearly 3 hours.

I have asked storage for a total amount of Gb allocated to the box, but I am becoming concerned as to why this is taking so long. Can anyone give an idea of how long I should leave this for? how many minutes per Gb?

Thanks
Mark

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Can you see it making progress? The time taken can depend on the number of errors fsck encounters. If there are lots of errors, which there could be if the system went down due to overheating, then this could take a while.

[Mark McDonald_2]

I cannot see any progress, it is running the fsck as part of the boot.

I will just leave it for now then.
Thanks

[Mark McDonald_2]

fsck is still running, but there is no output.

Its still here:
vxfs fsck: /dev/vx/dsk/archivedg/archivevol24:sanity check: /dev/vx/dsk/archivedg/archivevol24 needs checking
vxfs fsck: /dev/vx/dsk/archivedg/archivevol25:sanity check: /dev/vx/dsk/archivedg/archivevol25 needs checking
vxfs fsck: /dev/vx/dsk/archivedg/archivevol26:sanity check: /dev/vx/dsk/archivedg/archivevol26 needs checking
Running parallel replay fsck ...

[Mark McDonald_2]

tried to get in to single user mode, but the kernel had corrupted!!

Booted from prev kernel box is back up and running OK.

[Mark McDonald_2]

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