1. Nope. Your drive will most likely be in an interesting state. 2. As it was interupted it will most likly flag the drive with a 'dirty bit'. Depending on the condition it 'may' let you skip the recommended chkdsk once on the way up but I would not plan on it.
If you are desperate, there is a kb article on how to disable the 'dirty bit' flag for chkdsk but it seriously is not a thing to do lightly. You may try downing the system, then have the SAN people pull that LUN off the server. The server will be upset but most likely be ok. Please note that there is risk to this suggestion and from 'some guy' on the internet. While we have on occasion had to do similiar here with a Hitachi SAN, your experience may not be mine and I'd rather not be 'that guy' on the Internet if something does go wrong. :) On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Mike Leone <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a bit of an urgent problem. I have a Win2003 server, and I needed > to run CHKDSK on the X: drive (a SAN drive that we use to write disk > backups to). So it is NOT running CHKDSK the boot drive, or the drive > where programs are installed; the X: drive is just for disk backup (EMC > Networker). > > X: is, however, like 2 TB in size ... mostly empty, tho, as the backup > to disk has not been working. (mostly meaning maybe 200-300G, probably > less, used space). > > Chkdsk has been running for like 75 minutes, and I have no way of > estimating how much longer it will take. > > So my questions: > > 1. There's no way to interrupt it, except to power down. But will it > corrupt the machine? I don't really care if the X: drive is corrupt, as > long as it boots up and the Lotus Notes services run (none of which are > installed on X:, everything is to drive E:, a separate SAN drive). > > 2. If I do power it down, will it insist on running CHKDSK when it comes > up? I need to get the server back into production, and can't really wait > for CHKDSK to finish on that drive. > > Any help REALLY appreciated, thanks. > > (yes, I'm an idiot) > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
