From: Damon Goforth (damon@compsus.com)
Date: Sun Nov 02 2003 - 15:54:10 EST
Some replies were received to my problem - a dead disk in an advfs
domain. Thanks to : Alan Rollow, Chris Adams, Pat O'Brien, John Lanier
and Nikola Milutinovic.
All the above basically stated that I was in effect 'hosed' and that if
the drive was dead, I was dead. All suggested I try the 'salvage'
utility, however when I read the man pages on that I felt a little
uneasy - the manpages for verify say things like 'use only as last
resort' and 'use verify, then backup media first, then try salvage' etc.
As it happens, I pulled the disk drive from the shelf, rapped it against
my desk fairly hard, put it back in the shelf and booted the machine.
The disk mounted fine. I then ran through 'rmvol'. I was able to get the
machine to successfully remove the volume. (in my best Gomer voice)
Shazaam! I now am busying about, ordering a few more drives, shelf and
scsi adapter so I can get lsm going.
Original message:
> Hello folks -
> I came to work this morning to find my 4100 4.0g machine with an advfs
> volume dismounted. It appears that one of the disks has totally died
> (according to Compaq support). The light is on and solid - a bad sign.
>
> I tried a reboot and the volume came back. I started rmvol in an
> effort to remove the volume safely - to no avail. The rmvol worked for
> a time and then failed with i/o errors.
>
> So, my question is this - is it possible to resurrect ANY of the data
> from the rest of the fileset? Something along the lines of, say,
> remove the bad disk and then bring the volume up minus the data on the
> bad disk? I really need to bring this volume up faster than going to
> tape.
Damon M. Goforth
Systems / Network Administrator
Compugraphics, USA Inc.
141 Suite A Albright Way
Los gatos, CA. 95032 USA
Desk : 408 341 1616
Cell : 408 218 0153
Fax : 408 866 2248
damon@compsus.com
www.compsus.com
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