We have a remote warm standby system running CentOS-6.8 as a KVM system with multiple guests. One of the guests began reporting an error when running aide. Caught SIGBUS/SEGV while mmapping. File was truncated while aide was running? Caught SIGBUS/SEGV. Exiting The /var/log/messages file contained this: Mar 9 09:14:13 inet12 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 14539264 Mar 9 09:14:31 inet12 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 14539296 Mar 9 09:14:48 inet12 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 14539296 df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_inet02-lv_root 7932336 2262672 5260064 31% / tmpfs 961044 0 961044 0% /dev/shm /dev/vda1 487652 139473 322579 31% /boot . . . This indicated that a bad sector on the underlying disk system might be the source of the problem. The guests were all shutdown, a /forcefsck file was created on the host system, and the host system remotely restarted. However, this action did not remove the error. The host system log files had this to say about fsck: /var/log/messages:Mar 9 08:34:48 vhost03 kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-6): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended in /dev I see this: brw-rw----. 1 root disk 253, 6 Mar 9 08:34 dm-6 But, this device has nothing whatsoever to do with the kvm guests: ll /dev/vg_vhost03/ | grep dm-6 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Mar 9 08:34 lv_centos_repos -> ../dm-6 Rather this is an lv devoted to holding CentOS ISOs: /dev/mapper/vg_vhost03-lv_centos_repos 101016992 77160124 18718848 81% /var/data/centos So, my questions are: 1. How do I fix the problem with the guest system that Aide is stumbling over? 2. How do I get the fsck issue with dm-6 resolved? -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3