cciss problems

harold molly hjnmolly at hetnet.nl
Thu Feb 8 11:23:50 UTC 2007


You may consider the next lines, first.
> 	/dev/cciss/c0d0p4          3858     17433  55390080    f  Win95
> Ext'd (LBA)
> 	/dev/cciss/c0d0p5          3858     17433  55390064   83  Linux

seems to me that you have to boot your system in rescue mode, and do some  
advanced
engineering.

good luck



On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:56:17 +0100, Neill Flynn <nflynn at itgeurope.com>  
wrote:

>
> Hi admins,
>
> I am having a strange problem, basically I rebooted my RH9 Linux box
> (HPDL360) and lost one partition. The machine failed to come up as it
> was unable to mount the /export partition. I tried to FSCK it and had no
> luck. Basically the /export partition was mounted on /dev/cciss/c0d0p5,
> this device is not in /dev/cciss/c0d0p5.
>
> Below are some relevant outputs
> fdisk -l
> 	Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 72.8 GB, 72833679360 bytes
> 	255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 17433 cylinders Units = cylinders
> of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes
>
> 	           Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> 	/dev/cciss/c0d0p1   *         1      1287   5250944   83  Linux
> 	/dev/cciss/c0d0p2          1288      1801   2097120   82  Linux
> swap
> 	/dev/cciss/c0d0p3          1802      3857   8388480   83  Linux
> 	/dev/cciss/c0d0p4          3858     17433  55390080    f  Win95
> Ext'd (LBA)
> 	/dev/cciss/c0d0p5          3858     17433  55390064   83  Linux
>
> cat /etc/fstab
> 	LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults
> 1 1
> 	none                    /dev/pts                devpts
> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> 	LABEL=/export           /export                 ext3    defaults
> 1 2
> 	none                    /proc                   proc    defaults
> 0 0
> 	none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults
> 0 0
> 	LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults
> 1 2
> 	/dev/cciss/c0d0p2       swap                    swap    defaults
> 0 0
> 	/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> 	/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>
> ls -al /dev/cciss/c0d0*
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,   0 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,   1 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,  10 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p10
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,  11 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p11
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,  12 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p12
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,  13 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p13
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,  14 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p14
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,  15 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p15
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,   2 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,   3 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p3
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,   4 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p4
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,   6 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p6
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,   7 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p7
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,   8 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p8
> 	brw-rw----    1 root     disk     104,   9 Jun 24  2004
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p9
>
> Can anyone explain why this device may have disappeared and how to get
> it back? (Is there a Solaris "boot -r" or "devfsadm" type command to
> reconfigure the devices?).
>
> Also, how do you reconcile "LABEL=/export" to the device? (I just happen
> to know that LABEL=/export is c0d0p5).
>
> Thanks in advance to any help.
>
> Cheers,
> Neill
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