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Old 11-29-2007
partition disk issue

hi guys,

I've got a strange issue, may be one of you has experienced this.

SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440

everything is mirrored.

My issue is that I have a umpty directory but seems to have data on. Let me show you

# df -h /data
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d6 19G 6.7G 12G 36% /data

# ls -la
total 22
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 512 Nov 28 09:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 1024 Nov 29 15:41 ..
drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Dec 18 2006 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx 2 root ads 512 Nov 29 15:40 save

# du . -hs
16 ./lost+found
2 ./save
20 .

if some one can help would be so great

Tks
# 2  
Old 11-29-2007
Is there another disk or disks mounted to a subdirectory of /data?
If so, umount them, do another ls and du.

I've seen this happen before, where a backup, tar file. etc gets run, before
a disk get mounted. then the disk is mounted, and effectively hides the files, then someone will assume the restore failed, reinstalls the data after the disk has been mounted.
# 3  
Old 11-29-2007
It could be also a file system corruption. Umount it and run fsck, fhinally, mount it again...

Regards.
# 4  
Old 11-29-2007
Hi guys,

Thanks for your help.

I thought about the fsck and tryied to launch a umount but I cannot it says /data busy. I check cut link on it. relaunch and same error.
I launch a fuser to see is some one is using it. nop nobody.
rr
# 5  
Old 11-29-2007
I'm sorry, but I have to ask you this:
You are umounting "outside" /data, aren't you? Smilie
Now, if the answer is no:
- Check for processes using /data. To achieve this use fuser or lsof (have a look at their man pages for available options).
- Kill those processes.
- Umount again.
- run fsck.
# 6  
Old 11-30-2007
Thanks guys,

Well yes for sure I have no session insisde /data

I comments sharetab and dfstab which was use for this directory.
I deleted the save link which was at /

no process found Smilie
# 7  
Old 11-30-2007
Did you use fuser/lsof to see whether some process is working on /data?
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