satish@ticnj.UUCP (News Administrator) (05/03/90)
I am using a rm command to empty a file system through a crontab entry, which causes the system (sparcstation running SUNOS Rel. 4.0.3c) to panic and reboot !! The Panic message written in the /usr/adm/messages file looks like this : vmunix: panic: vfs_remove: vfs not found The shell script which does that looks like : ......... mount /dev/.... /mnt cd /mnt for i in * ; do rm -rf $i ; done ..... ..... The script bombs and leaves a core file behind which says that the rm command bombed. Any ideas, views , suggestions are welcome . Thanks in advance.
dick@unix386.Convergent.COM (Dick Hacking) (05/05/90)
In article <356@ticnj.UUCP>, satish@ticnj.UUCP (News Administrator) writes: > I am using a rm command to empty a file system through a crontab entry, which > causes the system (sparcstation running SUNOS Rel. 4.0.3c) to panic > and reboot !! > > mount /dev/.... /mnt > cd /mnt > for i in * ; do rm -rf $i ; done > ..... Why not just use mkfs to recreate the filesystem. This has the advantage that performance will be much better than that over the fragmented filesystem left by removing lots of files. It will also bypass the cause of the panic if you are lucky ;-) Dick Hacking