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Operating Systems HP-UX Problems after filesystem housekeeping Post 302995017 by anaigini45 on Friday 31st of March 2017 12:39:44 AM
Old 03-31-2017
Problems after filesystem housekeeping
I have noticed that after I clear up the /var filesystem, there are always problems.

Does deleting the OLDsyslog.log file cause problems like missing directories and problems accessing crontabs?

There were two situations where I faced problems.
1) Deleted OLDsyslog.log (Of course I created an archive of this before deleting).
The next day there were problems of missing directories in a path not even related to the log which is /var/adm/syslog.

2) In this situation, I also did the same - deleted old syslog, and backdated ones, and now there is another problem, whereby users are not able to access their crontab :

Code:
$ crontab -l
crontab: you are not authorized to use cron.  Sorry.
bscs.L28bi02> (/bscsbin/lisa)

And so I checked the server, and found that even the cron directory went missing! So this means that everything under cron like cron.allow was gone. I had to manually create the directory and this file for the user to be able to use it again.

Now the user can list the crontab entries, but not able to save new cron entries :
Code:
/var/tmp/aaaa15475" 277 lines, 14951 characters cron may not be running - call your system administrator

I restarted cron, then I can save the entries.

Also, I realize now that many directories in /var/adm are missing. Like /var/adm/sa, /var/adm/syslog.
I cannot even get any output from the command "last". (To check who deleted the files). The error is :

Code:
# last
 : No such file or directory

Last edited by anaigini45; 03-31-2017 at 01:53 AM..
 

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gfs2_grow

gfs2_grow(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      gfs2_grow(8)

NAME

       gfs2_grow - Expand a GFS2 filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       gfs2_grow [OPTION]... <DEVICE|MOUNTPOINT>...

DESCRIPTION

       gfs2_grow  is  used  to	expand	a  GFS2  filesystem after the device upon which the filesystem resides has also been expanded.	By running
       gfs2_grow on a GFS2 filesystem, you are requesting that any spare space between the current end of the filesystem and the end of the device
       is filled with a newly initialized GFS2 filesystem extension.  When this operation is complete, the resource group index for the filesystem
       is updated so that all nodes in the cluster can use the extra storage space that has been added.

       You may only run gfs2_grow on a mounted filesystem; expansion of unmounted filesystems is not supported.  You only need to run gfs2_grow on
       one node in the cluster.  All the other nodes will see the expansion has occurred and automatically start to use the newly available space.

       You must be superuser to execute gfs2_grow.  The gfs2_grow tool tries to prevent you from corrupting your filesystem by checking as many of
       the likely problems as it can.  When expanding a filesystem, only the last step of  updating  the  resource  index  affects  the  currently
       mounted filesystem and so failure part way through the expansion process should leave your filesystem in its original unexpanded state.

       You can run gfs2_grow with the -T flag to get a display of the current state of a mounted GFS2 filesystem.

       The  gfs2_grow  tool  uses  the	resource  group  (RG) size that was originally calculated when mkfs.gfs2 was done.  This allows tools like
       fsck.gfs2 to better ensure the integrity of the file system.  Since the new free space often does not lie on even boundaries based on  that
       RG size, there may be some unused space on the device after gfs2_grow is run.

OPTIONS

       -D     Print out debugging information about the filesystem layout.

       -h     Prints out a short usage message and exits.

       -q     Be quiet.  Don't print anything.

       -T     Test. Do all calculations, but do not write any data to the disk and do not expand the filesystem. This is used to discover what the
	      tool would have done were it run without this flag.

       -V     Version. Print out version information, then exit.

BUGS

       There is no way to shrink a GFS2 filesystem.

SEE ALSO

       mkfs.gfs2(8) gfs2_jadd(8)

																      gfs2_grow(8)
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