As to Jon Vaupels' query...
All LED lights on the drives blink on and off during 'fsck', as would be
expected. The negative being... None of them are ON constantly or OFF
constantly.
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Vaupel, Jon [mailto:vaupel_at_Edgemark.Com]
Dear Ed,
Are any of the orange leds on any of the drives? hard to tell if this is a
hard failure
or not, if orange led on may be drive in trouble. would recommend for future
use advfs.
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Disk errors using fsck - Whether to fix or re-create file
> system
>
> I continue to get the following errors when running fsck on an unmounted,
> external, RAID 0 file system. This is a UFS file system (+60 GB) and is
> used primarily used as a temporary write space for SAS (R). After running
> fsck +4 times, it now only replies with the following message and does not
> prompt for a repair.
>
> myhost:/etc> fsck -v /dev/rrz40c
> /sbin/ufs_fsck -v /dev/rrz40c
> ** /dev/rrz40c
> ** Last Mounted on /future1
> ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
> ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
> MISSING '..' I=2 OWNER=root MODE=40777
> SIZE=1024 MTIME=Sep 13 10:51 1999
> DIR=?
> CANNOT FIX, SECOND ENTRY IN DIRECTORY CONTAINS .&
> MISSING '..' I=199680 OWNER=smith MODE=40777
> SIZE=1536 MTIME=Aug 12 18:11 1999
> DIR=/lost+found/#00084480/Regions_Completed/pennjer
> CANNOT FIX, SECOND ENTRY IN DIRECTORY CONTAINS .&
> MISSING '..' I=249600 OWNER=jones MODE=40700
> SIZE=512 MTIME=Sep 10 13:15 1999
> DIR=?
> CANNOT FIX, SECOND ENTRY IN DIRECTORY CONTAINS .&
> ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
> ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
> ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
> 1590 files, 7940516 used, 52410368 free (464 frags, 6551238 blocks, 0.0%
> fragmentation)
> Filesystem still has errors - rerun fsck.
>
> What does this mean? Have I lost the file system or can it be recovered?
> NOTE: The data on this file system have been backed up or are not
> important.
>
> Thanks,
> Ed Notari
Received on Mon Sep 13 1999 - 20:39:36 NZST