Totally hosed up filesystem..wtf?

Jeff Mohler speedtoys.racing at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 22:00:56 UTC 2006


Not if fsck wont fix it.  ;(  But..will give it a shot


On 10/28/06, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>
>  You should be able to remove the bad drive leaving the good one in use.
>
>          -Derek
>
>
>  At 03:18 PM 10/28/2006, Jeff Mohler wrote:
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> Appears the issue is in the IBM servers RAID.
>
>  Its a RAID1, and the mirror raid is totally hosed according to the
>  machine bios, and that hung up the primary side of the mirror when the
>  backup side went tango uniform.
>
>
>
>  On 10/27/06, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>
>
>   reboot single user, cd /var/log and delete anything you can there.  Then
>  try fsck.
>
>           -Derek
>
>
>   At 07:26 PM 10/27/2006, Jeff Mohler wrote:
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>  So..last night im workin away, and then the machine gets slow, then
>   stops responding to anything.
>
>   I can ping it, but no telnet, MailScanner has detected a possible fraud
>  attempt from "www...anything." claiming to be www...anything. Hung hard.
>  Last thing
>   I saw in a make buildworld was a 'cant write to filesystem' error..or
>   something like that but not a 'no room on device' error.
>
>   Have my remote helper power cycle it, as he cant get in either.
>
>   Comes up asking for single user shell, get in, and fsck -y fails with:
>
>   fsck_ufs: cannot alloc [random # of bytes here]
>
>   Searching tells me in dead.
>
>   Running 6.1.
>
>
>   Help??
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