Filesystems, Disks and Memory

someone help me to figure out about this error


i´m installing a 36Gb SCSI Hd and i used the custom option in unixSCO for create the diferents filesystems, when the process is finish the next error message apears:

Exit value 139 status value -29952
Fatal error in disk info.c line 3525
Function DIAd Just Division: Cannot adjust division to fit in the usable space: Disk 0

where i can find help about a catalog of errors by number or something

or a suggestion of what is the size recomended for /boot
/root and /swap

This is just an educated guess, but I believe you are trying to use the entire 36GB.

I had a similar problem when extending a FS. I didn't remember that a portion of the disk is reserved.

Try reducing your total allocation of disk space from 36GB to 35.5GB or if 500MB is too much to give up, try 35.7GB or so. Some OSs require 3-10 % for disk overhead.

Reduce your overall size allocated for filesystems and I am willing to bet that will fix your problems.

Thanks for the reply but one more question for you.. if that was the case how can it be that users is the only thing that is corrupted.. I am able to get into any other menu and what not... in the sam program... Pls help.. I am thinking of a rebuild att so I would like to prevent this.. plus there is some othere issues with it. that are being delt with.. But I would like to know how to correct this.. if I ever see it again.. thanks for your help.. Maryanne

Since you referenced SAM, I am assuming you have HPUX. Is your problem with /usr or accessing the users on your system?

If it is the /usr filesystem read on. If it is your actual users on the box, that is a totally different problem.

If you have a corrupted filesystem, I would suggest going to single user and peforming an fsck on that unmounted filesystem. Then boot to multi and watch the flags on the filesystem during the boot process to see if the filesystem is "clean" or "dirty".

Also, I would try to restore /usr from a backup before wiping out your OS and reinstalling.

As a last resort, I would reinstall, but that is always my last option.



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