Something strange happening in one of our SLES9 servers. After reboot, changes to root partition are lost. I confirmed it by cycling it today. We created an account and now the home directory for the account is gone and /etc/passwd has old timestamp.
The mount output shows that the root is mounted r/w and the minidisk definition says MR. zlp3:/home # mount /dev/dasdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) /dev/dasdc1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/dasdg1 on /local type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/dasdf1 on /opt type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/dasdd1 on /usr type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/dasde1 on /var type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) MDISK 0151 3390 1 1500 LIN043 MR read write It seems like either Linux or z/VM is not flushing the disk. I even issue sync command after the changes but when I mount the minidisk as read only on another guest, I dont see the changes. I do know that when ZLP3, the server with problem comes up, it shows a lot of errors on tmpfs at /dev/shm! Anyone been in similar situation? -- __________________ Ranga Nathan Work: 714-442-7591 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
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