[OpenAFS] Salvaging an RO-Volume

[Hartmut Reuter]

You need to specify the RW-volumeId for salvage even if there is no RW 
volume in the partition!

Hartmut

Frank Burkhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a broken RO-volume resides on one of my fileserver:
> 
>  $ vos listvol [fileserver] a
>  [...]
>  **** Could not attach volume 536877628 ****
>  
>  Total volumes onLine 352 ; Total volumes offLine 1 ; Total busy 0
> 
> 
> I don't need it, so I want to remove it:
> 
>  # vos remove [heilbutt] a 536877628
> 
>  Transaction on volume 536877628 failed
>     Volume needs to be salvaged
> 
> 
>     Volume needs to be salvaged
>  Error in vos remove command.
>  Volume needs to be salvaged
> 
> Ok - let's salvage it:
> 
>  # bos salvage [fileserver] a 536877628 -showlog
>  Starting salvage.
>  bos: salvage completed
>  SalvageLog:
>  @(#) OpenAFS 1.4.4 built  2007-04-23
>  06/13/2007 09:10:23 STARTING AFS SALVAGER 2.4 (/usr/lib/openafs/salvager /vicepa 536877628)
>  06/13/2007 09:10:23 536877628 is a read-only volume; not salvaged
> 
> That doesn't work :-( . What is the best way to handle this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Frank
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