Hi,
I received a message from a user that some of his files where missing. I
found a long list
of I/O errors in /var/adm/messages that look like this:
vmunix: Defering I/O (errno 5) for block(0x76860, 0x76860) on device
8,1026
Is this a hardware error? How can I find out which disk is device 8?
While I was looking into this problem I lost the connection to the
machine
(I can only access that machine through the network; its not mine, but
since
none of the users of that machine know much about unix, they call me if
a problem occurs) and couldn't log in
after that, so I had the owner boot the machine. After the reboot no
more
errors where reported and the user that claimed that some of his files
were missing told me that all the missing files were back.
So for now everything seems to be working fine. I have told them to make
a backup
of all their data. Now I need to know if they should call Digital to
have the disk replaced or what else is causing this error..
Thanks in advance,
Bart
ps
I also noted that the /usr file system was full (for some reason the
home directories are
in /usr/users which is a bad idea; I have told the guy who is
administrator of that machine to
change this asap (he is new to unix, so he didn't know that creating
users dirs in
/usr wasn't the way to go)). I don't think that a full filesystem can
couse the above error messages, can it?
--
Bart Rousseau, Ph.D. student
University of Antwerp - Dep. of Chemistry
Structural Chemistry - Quantum Chemistry
http://sch-www.uia.ac.be/struct/quantum/
Received on Fri Feb 19 1999 - 18:22:38 NZDT