Need some guidance here

  We issued the shutdown command for a Linux test image and after it
went down we IPL'ed the LPAR. In the boot process coming up  we are
receiving a the message that /dev/opt/opt  a LVM reiserfs file system
has problems. I can see from the log that FSCK has tried to fix the
problem, but is unable to. It then issues the message to run it
manually. 
  I have attempted to run it manually issuing the command FSCK.REISERFS
--rebuild-sb /dev/opt/opt. When I issues this command it tells me it
cannot find the device?  Anyone have thoughts as to how I could recover
this? 
   We were lacks and had not yet made backups of this LVM file system ,
so I can not restore it from a back-up. I do have a TAR file back-up of
the complete system that resides on another LVM file system. This could
be used to rebuild the systems, if I could get the system up. But can
not access this because the system does not boot up high enough to get
to these files. Is their a way to bypass what's on /opt and get the
system up? I could then make a new /opt filesystems if I could just get
the system up.
   Another thought I had was to modify the /etc/fstab file and take the
entry for /dev/opt/opt out of it. But, we are unable to connect to the
partition via ssh. I am communicating with the system via the HMC
reading the message console for the LPAR? Using this method the screen
are not friendly and trying to use VI is impossible, as I can't read the
screen when in VI from the message console.
  


Thanks for your comments and advice ,


Lance Longstreth
Bandag Inc
Technical Support & Operations
zOS systems/Linux
1-(563)-262-2927
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




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