Happy New Year everyone!
Platform: AlphaServer 4100
OS: Tru64 UNIX 4.0F (no patch kit installed)
Problem Description:
On 1999Dec23 we performed 1999-to-2000 rollover, 2000Feb28-to-2000Feb29 and
application tests on this server. Before beginning the tests, I performed
archives of all the mounted filesystems (which are AdvFS filesystems) using
vdump. After completing the tests, I switched to single-user mode and
restored the filesystems one after the other (first ran /sbin/bcheckrc to
mount the filesystems) after restoring the date to 1999Dec23. Everything
seemed fine.
On 1999Dec31, I was performing year-end system archives using vdump again.
All the filesystems were successfully archived except the root filesystem.
The tape lights would be active for about a minute and then it would go out
and there would be no responses or messages from the vdump program (which
normally writes a status update every five minutes or so). I eventually had
to abort this archive (retried many times; always the same behaviour) and
use tar to selectively archive files and subdirectories in root.
Upon examining my filesystems, I discovered that the sizes of the quota.user
and quota.group files in the root filesystem were both as follows:
# ls -l quota.*
5 -rw-r----- 1 root operator 137438953472 Dec 23 23:20 quota.group
4 -rw-r----- 1 root operator 137438953472 Dec 23 23:20 quota.user
If the size is meaninful, then this cannot be true, for the size of my root
filesystem is approx 256MB as shown below:
# df -k
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
root_domain#root 256000 76491 173328 31% /
/proc 0 0 0 100% /proc
usr_domain#usr 2048000 465309 1560528 23% /usr
dom1#tdocs_fs 1886040 3741 1875632 1% /tdocs
dom1#Docs_fs 1886040 40 1875632 1% /Docs
dom2#home_fs 2048000 688967 1348768 34% /home
dom3#usr5_fs 2048000 739954 1293680 37% /usr5
dom4#dbahome_fs 2048000 1703008 325320 84% /dbahome
dom5#spare_fs 2742272 2038347 687848 75% /spare
dom5#tmp_fs 2742272 803 687848 1% /tmp
I tried to remove the quota.user and quota.group files but I got Permission
denied error. I can rename them. Does anyone have any idea what went wrong
and how do I fix it? Should I have booted from the OS Boot CD, escaped to
the UNIX shell, recreated the AdvFS file domain, mounted it and then
restored?
Best regards,
Edmund Nigel Gall
Senior Information Systems Specialist
Process Plant Services Limited
Atlantic Avenue, Point Lisas Industrial Estate
Point Lisas, Couva, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.
Tel: (868) 636 2906 x 274 Fax: (868) 679 3770
Received on Tue Jan 11 2000 - 20:03:05 NZDT