Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 17:05:06 +0100 From: David Larkin <David.Larkin@djl.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>, Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com> Subject: mounting old filesystem - Re: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs Message-ID: <391988B1.F8D15766@DJL.co.uk> References: <3917D5E5.951393B@DJL.co.uk> <39182044.30B433BF@DJL.co.uk>
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--------------E857D1A260B079FE36559FE9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Further to the problems I reported yesterday - panic : vinvalbuf: dirty bufs - fixit floppy I couldn't work out what to do in fixit, so I installed 3.4 on another disk, which is now up and running, so I can forget about the fixit floppy problem. I've now put the old disk in as a 'slave' and when I boot it recognises the disk as /dev/wdc1 What I want to do is try and mount my old /usr partition and hopefully recover some files. I was hoping to do something like mount /dev/wd1s1f /mnt but /dev/wd1s1f does not exist I guess I need to do 'newfs' or something similar, but the man page is a little cryptic. Can anyone point me in direction of a tutorial style document ? Thanks in advance Dave David Larkin wrote: > Hi, > Still trying to get to bottom of 'panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs' > problem described below. > > I've now booted the fixit floppy > > Could someone advise me how to check that certain files > still exist on the hard disk. > > I guess I need to mount my /usr partition as /mnt > > /usr was /dev/wd0s1f > > on fixit floppy I have /dev/wd0s1 & /dev/rwd0s1 > > Can I mount the /usr partition ??? > > Assuming I can, and that I find the files I'm particularly keen > not to lose, can I get them off , to floppy or by ftp ? > They are modest sized source files. > > I've not been able to find any documentation on using fixit. > Could someone point me in right direction. > > Thanks in advance > Dave > > > David Larkin wrote: > >> Hi, >> Is anyone familiar with the error message >> >> panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs >> >> I've looked through archives, and seen similar messages during >> installation, or creating new filesystems, but I'm getting it >> on a system that's been working fine for some time. >> >> AMD-K6(tm)-2/450 >> 256 MB RAM >> FUJITSU MPD3173AT >> FreeBSD 3.3 >> >> Suddenly last week I started getting system crashes and had to >> run FSCK manually a couple of times. >> >> I then noticed the following error occuring at regular intervals. >> >> soft error writing fsbn >> >> the system has now crashed and now will not boot. >> >> Changing root device to wd0s1a >> WARNING: / was not properly dismounted >> swapon: adding /dev/wd0s1b as swap device >> Automatic reboot in progress... >> /dev/rwd0s1a: 1026 files, 26068 used, 37435 free (283 frags, 4644 >> blocks, 0.4% fragmented) >> /dev/rwd0s1f: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS >> /dev/rwd0s1f: clean, 6471325 free (1041541 frags, 678723 blocks, >> 6.6% fragmentation) >> /dev/rwd0s1e: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS >> /dev/rwd0s1e: clean, 21123 free (451 frags, 2584 blocks, 1.1% >> fragmentation) >> panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs >> syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up >> >> Clearly anyone knowing the exact solution would be most welcome. >> However interpretation of the error messages to give a best guess on >> the following would be a start. >> >> Is this a disk hardware problem ? >> Is it configuration problem ? >> Are contents of disk corrupt ? >> Could this be anything to do with large filesystems ? >> >> It's a 17GB disk, and I've recently added new data taking the /usr >> partition up to about 65% full. >> >> Any advice would be welcome, Thanks in Advance >> Dave >> >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> David Larkin, >> D.J.L. Software Consultancy Ltd. The Industry Centre, >> Sunderland Enterprise Park, SR5 3XB UK >> Switchboard Tel: 44 191 5152666 Fax: 44 191 5152669 >> Direct Line Tel: 44 191 5153527 Fax: 44 191 5153527 >> Email David.Larkin@DJL.co.uk >> SMS-Email David.Larkin.SMS@DJL.co.uk (Max 160 char) >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> --------------E857D1A260B079FE36559FE9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Hi, <br>Further to the problems I reported yesterday <br>- panic : vinvalbuf: dirty bufs <br>- fixit floppy <p>I couldn't work out what to do in fixit, so I installed 3.4 on <br>another disk, which is now up and running, so I can forget <br>about the fixit floppy problem. <p>I've now put the old disk in as a 'slave' and when I boot it <br>recognises the disk as /dev/wdc1 <p>What I want to do is try and mount my old /usr partition <br>and hopefully recover some files. <p>I was hoping to do something like <p>mount /dev/wd1s1f /mnt <p>but /dev/wd1s1f does not exist <p>I guess I need to do 'newfs' or something similar, but <br>the man page is a little cryptic. <p>Can anyone point me in direction of a tutorial style document ? <p>Thanks in advance <br>Dave <br> <p>David Larkin wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi, <br>Still trying to get to bottom of 'panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs' <br>problem described below. <p>I've now booted the fixit floppy <p>Could someone advise me how to check that certain files <br>still exist on the hard disk. <p>I guess I need to mount my /usr partition as /mnt <p>/usr was /dev/wd0s1f <p>on fixit floppy I have /dev/wd0s1 & /dev/rwd0s1 <p>Can I mount the /usr partition ??? <p>Assuming I can, and that I find the files I'm particularly keen <br>not to lose, can I get them off , to floppy or by ftp ? <br>They are modest sized source files. <p>I've not been able to find any documentation on using fixit. <br>Could someone point me in right direction. <p>Thanks in advance <br>Dave <br> <p>David Larkin wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi, <br>Is anyone familiar with the error message <p>panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs <p>I've looked through archives, and seen similar messages during <br>installation, or creating new filesystems, but I'm getting it <br>on a system that's been working fine for some time. <p>AMD-K6(tm)-2/450 <br>256 MB RAM <br>FUJITSU MPD3173AT <br>FreeBSD 3.3 <p>Suddenly last week I started getting system crashes and had to <br>run FSCK manually a couple of times. <p>I then noticed the following error occuring at regular intervals. <p>soft error writing fsbn <p>the system has now crashed and now will not boot. <p>Changing root device to wd0s1a <br>WARNING: / was not properly dismounted <br>swapon: adding /dev/wd0s1b as swap device <br>Automatic reboot in progress... <br>/dev/rwd0s1a: 1026 files, 26068 used, 37435 free (283 frags, 4644 blocks, 0.4% fragmented) <br>/dev/rwd0s1f: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS <br>/dev/rwd0s1f: clean, 6471325 free (1041541 frags, 678723 blocks, 6.6% fragmentation) <br>/dev/rwd0s1e: FILESYSTEM CLEAN: SKIPPING CHECKS <br>/dev/rwd0s1e: clean, 21123 free (451 frags, 2584 blocks, 1.1% fragmentation) <br>panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs <br>syncing disks... 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 giving up <p>Clearly anyone knowing the exact solution would be most welcome. <br>However interpretation of the error messages to give a best guess on the following would be a start. <p>Is this a disk hardware problem ? <br>Is it configuration problem ? <br>Are contents of disk corrupt ? <br>Could this be anything to do with large filesystems ? <p>It's a 17GB disk, and I've recently added new data taking the /usr <br>partition up to about 65% full. <p>Any advice would be welcome, Thanks in Advance <br>Dave <pre>---------------------------------------------------- David Larkin, D.J.L. Software Consultancy Ltd. The Industry Centre, Sunderland Enterprise Park, SR5 3XB UK Switchboard Tel: 44 191 5152666 Fax: 44 191 5152669 Direct Line Tel: 44 191 5153527 Fax: 44 191 5153527 Email David.Larkin@DJL.co.uk SMS-Email David.Larkin.SMS@DJL.co.uk (Max 160 char) -----------------------------------------------------</pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre></pre> </html> --------------E857D1A260B079FE36559FE9-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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