Re: [Xen-users] Disk Coruption

["Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Caleb Call <caleb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We recently had some issues with our VMs where we had a runaway script that
> sucked all the memory and then killed the VMs.  The only way to recover was
> to do a xm destroy.  We now have one machine that will boot but will not
> spawn a shell in runlevel 3.  If you put it in to single user mode you can
> log in but if you try and do an 'ls' in any directory under / it just hangs.
>  I ran an fsck and it came back saying there is no corruption.  There are no
> mounted file systems on this VM.  I'm thinking it's got a corrupt disk
> image.  Is there any way to verify this before I rebuild this VM?  Or any
> suggestions on things to check?  It's using tap:aio for the driver.
> Thoughts???

start with using "fsck -f".
Then mount that file image somewhere else with a working OS. Can be on
dom0, or (prefereably) another domU.

-- 
Fajar

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