[comp.os.vms] REBUILDs while MOUNTing disks upon BOOT

HUNT%FTS121@LLL-ICDC.ARPA (Dave Hunt) (10/07/87)

I ran into an interesting (to me anyway) problem with our 11/750 system 
recently. I noticed that we had been getting a message during boot that our 
user disk had been improperly dismounted and that a REBUILD was in progress.
This happened both when we had a crash, and when we used SHUTDOWN to bring the
machine down. Along with the REBUILD, we received a message indicating that
we had a duplicate quota file entry. Well, the message manual had little 
useful information on this particular problem. ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR did not
fix the problem. It did however point at the problem, as it complained that 
it could not write DISKQUOTA information on the disk for UIC [0,0], as there
was already an entry for that UIC.

Therefore, I ran DISKQUOTA, removed the record for UIC [0,0], dismounted the
disk, mounted the disk (getting a REBUILD, but no disk quota error), 
dismounted the disk, mounted the disk, and VOILLA' (sp?) I had a normal
disk mount. You figure it out.

This seems to have fixed my problem, and will probably fix yours if you are
having this problem.  It would be of interest to know what mechanism got messed
up.


					Dave Hunt
					(ARPA: HUNT%FTS121@LL-ICDC.ARPA)
					Larwence Livermore National Lab.

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