[OpenAFS] Unusable empty partition

Sven Oehme oehmes@de.ibm.com
Wed, 1 Jun 2005 15:18:19 +0200


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no ,  we use vicepaa - vicepzz on al systems ...
it works ..

Sven
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Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> 
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01/06/2005 14:59

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Re: [OpenAFS] Unusable empty partition






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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<br><font size=2><tt>Last I checked, Vice Partitions were only allowed
a one<br>
character name, meaning &quot;/vicepcy&quot; is an invalid Vice<br>
Partition. &nbsp;Unless it's been changed recently, you can<br>
only have /vicepa through /vicepz<br>
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-derek<br>
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Hans-Gunther Borrmann &lt;hans-gunther.borrmann@rz.uni-freiburg.de&gt;
writes:<br>
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&gt; Hello,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I have one partition on a server, which is empty:<br>
&gt; Total number of volumes on server localhost partition /vicepcy: 0
<br>
&gt; Total volumes onLine 0 ; Total volumes offLine 0 ; Total busy 0<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; But I cannot move any volumes to this partition:<br>
&gt; me@somehost:~&gt; vos move www.natscan.kirsche7 servera by serverb
cy -verbose<br>
&gt; Starting transaction on source volume 537085072 ... done<br>
&gt; Cloning source volume 537085072 ... done<br>
&gt; Ending the transaction on the source volume 537085072 ... done<br>
&gt; Starting transaction on the cloned volume 537091168 ... done<br>
&gt; Creating the destination volume 537085072 ... done<br>
&gt; Dumping from clone 537091168 on source to volume 537085072 on <br>
&gt; destination ...Failed to move data for the volume 537085072<br>
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp;VOLSER: Problems encountered in doing the dump !<br>
&gt; vos move: operation interrupted, cleanup in progress...<br>
&gt; clear transaction contexts<br>
&gt; access VLDB<br>
&gt; move incomplete - attempt cleanup of target partition - no guarantee<br>
&gt; cleanup complete - user verify desired result<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; The VolserLog shows:<br>
&gt; Wed Jun &nbsp;1 10:18:03 2005 VAttachVolume: Failed to open /vicepcy/V0537085072.vl
<br>
&gt; (errno 2)<br>
&gt; Wed Jun &nbsp;1 10:18:03 2005 1 Volser: CreateVolume: volume 537085072
<br>
&gt; (www.natscan.kirsche7) created<br>
&gt; unable to allocate inode: File exists<br>
&gt; Wed Jun &nbsp;1 10:18:03 2005 1 Volser: ReadVnodes: Restore aborted<br>
&gt; Wed Jun &nbsp;1 10:18:03 2005 1 Volser: Delete: volume 537085072 deleted<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; and &quot;df -k&quot; gives:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; [met@somehost:logs]# df -k /vicepcy<br>
&gt; Filesystem &nbsp; &nbsp;1024-blocks &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Free %Used
&nbsp; &nbsp;Iused %Iused Mounted on<br>
&gt; /dev/vicepcy &nbsp; &nbsp;262144000 202566836 &nbsp; 23% &nbsp; &nbsp;
2191 &nbsp; &nbsp; 1% /vicepcy<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; which means that about 60 GB are occupied.<br>
&gt; What to do? The server is a namei server. My idea is therefore to
simply <br>
&gt; remove all files and directories except <br>
&gt; ./lost+found<br>
&gt; ./Lock<br>
&gt; ./Lock/vicepcy<br>
&gt; ./AFSIDat<br>
&gt; ./AFSIDat/README<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Will this be safe?<br>
-- <br>
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory<br>
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board
&nbsp;(SIPB)<br>
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ &nbsp; &nbsp;PP-ASEL-IA
&nbsp; &nbsp; N1NWH<br>
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; warlord@MIT.EDU &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;PGP key available<br>
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