From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 6:50: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2776937B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 06:50:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623E743E4A for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 06:50:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g9SEnnv15874; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:49:49 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200210281449.g9SEnnv15874@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: dscheck, negative b_blkno, Hard Drive Panic? To: grant@thenetnow.com Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:49:48 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <000d01c27e8e$4a2fd620$6401a8c0@grant> from "Grant Peel" at Oct 28, 2002 09:28:23 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Good Morning all, > > I have been setting up a some cronjobs this week to do dumps. Currently my > server is partitioned as such: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/amrd0s1h 7.6G 2.5G 4.5G 36% /home > ,,, > /dev/amrd0s1d 3.8G 576M 2.9G 16% /backup > > I am dumping "/var", "/usr", "/", and "/home" each Monday starting at 0200. > They are being dumped into /home/bacup. (I then FTP them to a different > local box). > > This morning I seen this in the logs, and, the dump was unsuccessfull. > > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Oct 28 02:20:03 2002 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev/amrd0s1h (/home) to /home/backup/home.full_dump > DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] > DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] > DUMP: estimated 2731756 tape blocks. > DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] > DUMP: 24.99% done, finished in 0:15 > DUMP: 47.07% done, finished in 0:11 > DUMP: DUMP: read error from /dev/amrd0s1h: Invalid argument: > [block -835969890]: count=4096 > read error from /dev/amrd0s1h: Invalid argument: [block -835969882]: > count=4096 > DUMP: DUMP: read error from /dev/amrd0s1h: Invalid DUMP: DUMP: read > error from /dev/amrd0s1h: Invalid argument: [block -2055499334]: count=6144 > read error from /dev/amrd0s1h: Invalid argument: [sector -1982468763]: > count=512 > argument: [sector -835969890]: count=512 I am not sure why it ways 'invalid argument' here, but it looks to me like this is a disk read error. COuld be something was written in error on the file or it could be that you are developing a bad spot on the disk. My response to seeing disk errors is to assume the disk is going bad and replace it at the earliest point possible. By the way, you might have included the dump command you are using and maybe the cron entry, and relevant portion of script. It might help. > ... > DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. I don't know why this is except maybe it was trying write a message. Do you have errors redirected somewhere? This one is for someone else to thing about. > > and in my/var/log/messages and dmesg logs I get: > > dscheck(#amrd/0x20007): negative b_blkno -1982468757 Hmmm. This I don't recognize. Is the block count overflowing? ////jerry > > I have been searching all morning (google, av etc) with no luck. It looks > like these may be systems errors. Any Ideas? > > Also, one thing I have noticed in my searches, others that have seen this > ALSO notice that they happened in the early morning hours (i.e. 0100 0200 > 0300 etc.) Is this just coinciudental, or is there some significance? > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. > > -Grant > > P.S. the other three file systems dumped no problem. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message