[CentOS] Re: EXT3-fs error (devive dm-0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

Wed Aug 2 22:13:38 UTC 2006
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

Alfred von Campe spake the following on 8/2/2006 3:06 PM:
> On Aug 2, 2006, at 15:11, William L. Maltby wrote:
> 
>> I'm new, but I think if you add it to a system, some changed things will
>> appear on boot. Do a
>>
>>   pvscan --verbose
>>   vgdisplay --verbose
>>   lvdisplay --verbose  xxxx  # for each volgroup
>>
>> to get a layout. I *suspect* the LVM routines have everything set up as
>> far as the physical aspects go. But the normal VolGroup00/LogVol00 is
>> already used on your machine. I'm not sure how LVM will place the new
>> volume into the system. If lucky, just find the physical volume and
>> makes new /dev/mapper entries. That would be good. I've not had to do
>> this carrying a disk to another machine.
> 
> I was able to mount the partition I needed, and accessing some
> subdirectories was no problem at all.  But others, including the top
> level directory, would generate lots of errors.  I was able to copy
> (using scp) some critical files I needed.  I'm still not convinced that
> the disk suffered a HW failure (I'm running the a long SMART test now). 
> How can I determine if indeed the disk failed, as opposed to the file
> system just getting corrupted?  I've salvaged everything I need off of
> this disk, so running fsck on it is not a problem.  I would like to
> determine the root cause, though.
> 
> Alfred
If filesystem is not needed, you could make a new filesystem on it with check
for bad blocks enabled. I think it is mke2fs -cc  /dev/sda (or whatever it is)
for a deep read/write test.


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