Killing fsadm

[Faizer Jameel]

Hi there
I started an online defragmentation on a file system. Currently its running and the file system has become 100%. If I kill the defragmentation process will there be any corruptions.

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Faizer,

This thread should help you out on taking a decition,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1051274

Regards,

Jaime.

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi,

Yes it is save to kill the PID running fsadm defrag.

more info.
http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000080000377

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Yes, you can kill a defragmentation run. Use a simple 'kill '. There are options to control the process's time when you invoke 'fsadm' -- both '-t time' and -p passes'. Next time, you can use those to constrain the run. See the manpages for 'fsadm_vxfs(1M)' for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Killing fsadm is ok but send it a SIGTERM (kill -15 fsadm_PID) or simply kill fsadm_PID as SIGTERM (-15) is the default. I would never send it a kill -9 but then again, I almost never kill -9 anything.

[Faizer Jameel]

The answers were useful and also enhanced the knowledge.