Mounting a filesystem error

[Habib_4]

Hi guys,

A couple of filesystems are bringing back the following error when I am trying to mount them:

mount: /usr1: I/O error
mount: /usr8: I/O error
mount: /usr3: I/O error
mount: /netscape_server: I/O error
mount: /export: I/O error

What is happening here?
Why are these errors occuring?

Cheers!

[RAC_1]

fsck.
fsck -F vxfs -o full /dev/vgxx/lvolx
dmesg/syslog.log Any error?

[Arunvijai_4]

Hello,

You need to check syslog.log and dmesg for more information abt this. This could be due to IO failure between system and hard drive.

-Arun

[Peter Godron]

Habib,
are all these mount points on the same physical disk? If so then most likely the disk is going faulty. The usual checks can be done (fsck,dmesg ...). I/O error normally mean disk replacement.

[Habib_4]

Hi Arun,

Yes syslog shows:

Apr 20 14:43:03 gb898_e vmunix: vxfs: mesg 017: vx_ilisterr - /usr3 file systeminode 6 marked bad

This is is happening for all the filesystems that are not mounting except for '/export'.

Cheers!

[RAC_1]

You do need to run fsck (full) on them and then try mounting.