Needless to say, I forgot to run fsck one last time. ;) That removed the illegal inodes, and the files along with it. Problem solved. I guess in the IT field, writing emails to support lists sometimes is all you need to inspire the proper solution. -John -----Original Message----- From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On Behalf Of Heinz J . Mauelshagen Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 3:59 AM To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] I/O Error removing a file On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 12:48:34PM -0600, John Moser wrote: > I encountered what I was able to diagnose as a hardware error on one of the > hard drives in my system. In order to make sure my data was safe, I added > an additional drive, and performed a pvmove of the data onto the healthy > drive (moving all the PE's off the bad disk). That all went fairly well > (except for taking forever). > > However, I still have a few files which are giving me troubles. > > root@vpn:/home/vpnwork# rm -R TestData2k > rm: cannot remove `TestData2k': Input/output error John, so you don't have PEs allocated on the failed drive any longer? If so, this looks like you still have another hardware flaw (cables?) or a bug in 2.5. What does "fsck -f" say about your filesystem? > > Is there a way to remove these files so that I can recreate them? I'm using > LVM version 1.0.1-rc4, on a Linux kernel 2.5.0. > > Thanks, > -John Moser > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
