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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users File System corruption Post 302838753 by bakunin on Tuesday 30th of July 2013 11:37:15 AM
Old 07-30-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by manivanm
While a tar file was created, the file system got full and there was no message on the tar failure.
"tar" will always issue an error message (as well as a non-zero exit code) in such a case. There could only be "no error message" because it was redirected to "/dev/null". Either the exit code or the error message should have been watched in this case.

Quote:
Originally Posted by manivanm
Then the system was shut down and the administrator says because the file system was full the shut down procedure corrupted the file system.
At first sight i think this is hardly believable. I do not know the shutdown procedure of this specific system (which might be heavily customized to produce such results), but any normal shutdown-procedure will not bear such results.

Whats more, it happens all the time that filesystems become full. Why should a shutdown-procedure - any normal action a system undertakes, for that matter - corrupt a filesystem? Linux would not be the stable server operating system it is if any normal operation would cause filesystems - full or not - to become corrupted.

To be honest, lacking any further evidence, i think the admin is telling bullshit. Let him explain what exactly has happened and post it here if you can't prove//disprove it yourself.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

shutdown

shutdown(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands					      shutdown(1B)

NAME

       shutdown - close down the system at a given time

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/shutdown [-fhknr] time [warning-message]...

DESCRIPTION

       shutdown  provides  an  automated procedure to notify users when the system is to be shut down. time specifies when shutdown will bring the
       system down; it may be the word now (indicating an immediate shutdown), or it may specify a future time in one of two formats: +number  and
       hour:min.  The  first  form brings the system down in number minutes, and the second brings the system down at the time of day indicated in
       24-hour notation.

       At intervals that get closer as the apocalypse approaches, warning messages are displayed at terminals of all logged-in users, and of users
       who have remote mounts on that machine.

       At  shutdown  time a message is written to the system log daemon, syslogd(1M), containing the time of shutdown, the instigator of the shut-
       down, and the reason. Then a terminate signal is sent to init, which brings the system down to single-user mode.

OPTIONS

       As an alternative to the above procedure, these options can be specified:

       -f    Arrange, in the manner of fastboot(1B), that when the system is rebooted, the file systems will not be checked.

       -h    Execute halt(1M).

       -k    Simulate shutdown of the system. Do not actually shut down the system.

       -n    Prevent the normal sync(2) before stopping.

       -r    Execute reboot(1M).

FILES

       /etc/rmtab    remote mounted file system table

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       fastboot(1B), login(1), halt(1M), reboot(1M), syslogd(1M), sync(2), rmtab(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       Only allows you to bring the system down between now and 23:59 if you use the absolute time for shutdown.

SunOS 5.11							    11 Oct 1994 						      shutdown(1B)
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