Thanks Mark. Sometimes the pain from the bullet in the foot makes it hard to see the simple solutions.
---- Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> On 8/25/2008 at 1:28 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Dodge > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently did a lvreduce on a 4.5GB logical volume by 2GB and created a > > second logical volume. I never got around to recreating the file system on > > the original logical volume. This weekend when the system got shutdown it > > died on the restart because of this. It is running fsck and I have been > > looking at and clearing screens full of y for hours. How long might this > > take and what are my options for punting. I can recover the data so that > > isn't a concern. > > If this is _not_ your root file system _and_ you get the zipl boot menu when > you start up your system, you should be able to boot into runlevel 1, then do > a "mkfs" on the logical volume. Then do a "telinit 3" to get into run level > 3 and restore from backup. > > If this _is_ your root file system, then you're looking at booting from the > installation kernel, activating your DASD, getting to a shell, and running > the "mkfs" command. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- Bill Dodge email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (703)627-2455 "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." Lewis Carroll "If you don't know where you are, a map won't help" Unknown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
