The other day, I moved all of the volumes on one partition over to another
partition. The only file I did not move, but actually removed, was
disk.afs1.a. I newfs'd the clean partition and re-mounted it. Now when
I go to do backups, I get:
Could not start a transaction on the volume 536870960
Volume not attached, does not exist, or not on line
Could not backup disk.afs1.a
I have tried using ``vos zap'' to nuke all references to disk.afs1.a,
but it still seems to be lingering.
My questions:
1. What ARE these volumes that AFS creates (disk.afs1.a)? What
are they used for?
2. Now that I have wiped the partition clean, what should I do
about the fact that the backup process is still trying to find
the file(s) ? I have issued a ``vos syncvldb'', and that did
not seem to help. The file server processes have also been
restarted since then.
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Jeff Blaine
CIESIN Operations
