ultrix disk problem
Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E
mchinni at pica.army.mil
Sat Jul 8 02:26:43 AEST 1989
System config.: DEC VAX 8600 running ULTRIX 3.0 w/ RL02 disk for bootstrap and
6 RA81 disks for unix filesystems.
Background: drive #3 was accidentally de-engaged (i.e. the button marked B on
the front of the drive was un-depressed). This happened when the system was up
in multi-user mode. I brought the drive down, re-depressed the B button (all
the other RA81 had B depressed), and brought the drive back up. This was done
from single-user mode with all filesystems unmounted.
The de-engagement was discovered when any attempt to talk to the drive
caused an error (ls on the filesystem on the drive - I/O error; mount/fsck on
the drive device - No such device or address).
Since re-engaging the drive I can talk to it via fsck.
Problem: I cannot re-mount the filesystem that was on the drive.
I say:
# /etc/mount /dev/ra3c /mnt
System says:
ufs_mount: fs /dev/ra3c not cleaned -- please fsck
ufs_mount: /dev/ra3c on /mnt: Invalid argument
so I obediently fsck the device with "fsck /dev/rra3c" since the drive was
configured with only c partition in use for the entire space on the disk.
Fsck finds no problems and no complaints. I try to re-mount now and I get the
same error:
ufs_mount: fs /dev/ra3c not cleaned -- please fsck
ufs_mount: /dev/ra3c on /mnt: Invalid argument
Question: How can I get the system to let me mount the filesystem and get at
the info. on the drive (w/ ls, cp, mv, etc.) WITHOUT 'newfs'ing the drive?
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Michael J. Chinni
Chief Scientist, Simulation Techniques and Workplace Automation Team
US Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center
User to skeleton sitting at cobweb () Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey
and dust covered workstation () ARPA: mchinni at pica.army.mil
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