Mystery Drive.....

[Marcos Aurelio Rodrigues]

try to find a if there is a iscsi initiator ..ls /etc/xxx.iscsi


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Marcos Aurelio Rodrigues (DEiGrAtiA-33)
<deigratia33 at gmail.com>
CCNA, MCSO
Mirabilia laudo semprer, Dei
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On Jan 30, 2008 9:46 PM, dbcooper <dclinuxlist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I got a handful of servers handed over to me and I noticed one of them (on
> boot up) was complaining about /dev/sdc having bad blocks and other
> various
> errors.
>
> So I thought I would umount it and fsck etc.....
>
> Come to find out this disk is no longer attached to the box, it currently
> has an sda(1-8) and a sdb(1) plus one sdd SAN mount.
>
> I ran fdisk -l to take a peek (and sure enough the drive doesn't exist
> (but
> it complains here as well).
>
> I've also checked my /etc/fstab and nothing exists there either.
>
> I've also grep'd the system to see if there was some sort of script (via
> cron etc) trying to mount a /dev/sdc or something at boot.
>
>
> Q. How do you properly remove a drive 100% from the system (obviously it's
> still trying to use this non-existent device). I thought maybe just using
> "rm" on the device file in question would work but I didn't try it yet.
> Q. Is there a set of tools/script/command for removing non-existent
> drives?
>
>
> PS. I've seen this similar situation before where the system was trying to
> mount stale (non-existent) drives from an old SAN setup, but I can't
> remember how I fixed it. :(
>
> I appreciate any advice.
>
> Thank you.
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