At Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:23:19 +1200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > Content-Language: en-US > > > hi All, > > A fault on our SAN dropped us down to a read-only filesystem and after reboot, > we have an "Unexpected Inconsistency" and I am being instructed by the boot to run fsck manually > without -a or -p (this was after I think processing around 15% of the filesystem) > > The specific message is "inode 27344909 has illegal blocks" > > I recall running fsck some years ago on smaller and simpler systems - am broadly > familiar with what it is but have no expertise in using it to repair a filesystem. > > Would be grateful for advice on whats the quickest / usual way to get us back up from > this. We do have a good backup for restoring unrecoverable files - i.e. I assume I am going > to end up asking fsck to repair the filesystem itself and then clean up any mess that > results. > > This is fsck 1.39 , Linux version 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 , Red Hat 4.1.2-42 > > thanks for any tips. Just run fsck and follow the prompts. Do this in single user mode. I assume that this not a file system with the O/S itself on it (eg it is not / or /usr or /var, etc.) If it ends up asking to do massive repairs, it might be that the file system is totally fubar'ed, in which case, doing a mkfs and doing a complete restore might be what you have to do. Be prepaired for this case. It is good that you have a good backup! > > Cheers > > AMcC > Bioinformatics Software Engineer > AgResearch NZ > > > > > > > ======================================================================= > Attention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments > from AgResearch Limited is intended only for the persons or entities > to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged > material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or > taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or > entities other than the intended recipients is prohibited by AgResearch > Limited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the > sender immediately. > ======================================================================= > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/