UDEV is more robust in SLES 10 and SLE 11. For SLES 9, did you 'mkinitrd' and then 'zipl' after the devices were moved or added?
-- R; <>< 2010/2/23 van Sleeuwen, Berry <[email protected]>: > Hello listers, > > Last weekend we moved an SLES9 machine to our backup VM. After reboot of > the guest the guest failed the filesystemcheck. After some research we > found that the required entries in de /dev directories were missing. > > /home and /usr have been moved to a different dasd quite some time ago. > /home is located on /dev/dasde1 and /usr is placed on /dev/dasdkk1. Now, > after the reboot, /dev contained /dev/dasde, /dev/dasde2, /dev/dasde3 > and /dev/dasdkk. Note that both dasde1 and dasdkk1 are missing. When the > fsck tries to check /dev/dasde1 and /dev/dasdkk1, as stated in the > /etc/fstab, it fails because the devices are not in the /dev directory. > > In the end we have formatted and recreated the disks so we were able to > repair this. But it does leave us with a bad feeling as to what and/or > why this had happend. > > Why could these entries have been removed from the /dev directory? They > were present before shutdown, or at least I guess they were because > obviously the guest did have /home and /usr available before. > > I found a message that stated that udev should create the devices but > would that also be the case here? And if so, why didn't it? > > Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards, > Berry van Sleeuwen > Flight Forum 3000 5657 EW Eindhoven > > ( +31 (0)6 22564276 > > > > > > Atos Origin <http://www.atosorigin.com/> > > MO CF SC Mainframe Services > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
