[OpenAFS] Unusable empty partition

[Derek Atkins]

Last I checked, Vice Partitions were only allowed a one
character name, meaning "/vicepcy" is an invalid Vice
Partition.  Unless it's been changed recently, you can
only have /vicepa through /vicepz

-derek

Hans-Gunther Borrmann <hans-gunther.borrmann@rz.uni-freiburg.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have one partition on a server, which is empty:
> Total number of volumes on server localhost partition /vicepcy: 0 
> Total volumes onLine 0 ; Total volumes offLine 0 ; Total busy 0
>
> But I cannot move any volumes to this partition:
> me@somehost:~> vos move www.natscan.kirsche7 servera by serverb cy -verbose
> Starting transaction on source volume 537085072 ... done
> Cloning source volume 537085072 ... done
> Ending the transaction on the source volume 537085072 ... done
> Starting transaction on the cloned volume 537091168 ... done
> Creating the destination volume 537085072 ... done
> Dumping from clone 537091168 on source to volume 537085072 on 
> destination ...Failed to move data for the volume 537085072
>    VOLSER: Problems encountered in doing the dump !
> vos move: operation interrupted, cleanup in progress...
> clear transaction contexts
> access VLDB
> move incomplete - attempt cleanup of target partition - no guarantee
> cleanup complete - user verify desired result
>
> The VolserLog shows:
> Wed Jun  1 10:18:03 2005 VAttachVolume: Failed to open /vicepcy/V0537085072.vl 
> (errno 2)
> Wed Jun  1 10:18:03 2005 1 Volser: CreateVolume: volume 537085072 
> (www.natscan.kirsche7) created
> unable to allocate inode: File exists
> Wed Jun  1 10:18:03 2005 1 Volser: ReadVnodes: Restore aborted
> Wed Jun  1 10:18:03 2005 1 Volser: Delete: volume 537085072 deleted
>
> and "df -k" gives:
>
> [met@somehost:logs]# df -k /vicepcy
> Filesystem    1024-blocks      Free %Used    Iused %Iused Mounted on
> /dev/vicepcy    262144000 202566836   23%     2191     1% /vicepcy
>
> which means that about 60 GB are occupied.
> What to do? The server is a namei server. My idea is therefore to simply 
> remove all files and directories except 
> ./lost+found
> ./Lock
> ./Lock/vicepcy
> ./AFSIDat
> ./AFSIDat/README
>
> Will this be safe?
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