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- From: accapadi@mathew.austin.ibm.com (Matt Accapadi)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: /tmp Corrupted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.210150.9962@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 21:01:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.225824.3656@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov5.225824.3656@netcom.com> lui@netcom.com (Stephen Lui) writes:
- >Recently our /tmp file system started to fill up. I went to /tmp and deleted
- >unnecessary files. However, this did not release any space in the file system
- >according to df. I went ahead and deleted all of the files in /tmp and the
- >file system was still 100% full! I ran fsck on /tmp and got:
- >
- >
- >** Checking /dev/hd3 (/tmp) MOUNTED FILE SYSTEM; WRITING SUPPRESSED;
- >** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
- >** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
- >** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
- >** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
- >** Phase 5 - Check Inode Map
- >The Inode map is not valid. (NOT SALVAGED)
- >** Phase 6 - Check Block Map
- >The Block map is not valid. (NOT SALVAGED)
- >The integrity of the file system is not guaranteed.
- >109 files 3576 blocks 37384 free
- >
- >To keep the system up, I created another /tmp file system and mounted it over
- >/tmp. After later rebooting the system and running fsck (you can't run fsck
- >and write to /tmp when it's mounted) the problem disappered. However, half a
- >day later the problem repeated itself.
- >
- >After a few days the problem seemed to correct itself. However, today the
- >same problem happened to /usr/ingres/files, a user-defined filesystem on a
- >total different physical disk. Any suggestions?
-
-
- You might want to check and see if the SCSI adapter is terminated. Or if there
- are SCSI peripherals attached and/or piggy-backed, check for termination there
- also. Also, run errpt to see what kind of errors were logged.
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