Recovering Journal - How Long?

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 11:17 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> OK, got an F15 system that went a bit bonkers.  Things were pretty much
> hung.  So, forced a reboot and the fun begins....
> 
> The boot process appeared hung with the disk activity light on solid. 
> Booted to rescue mode.
> 
> On one disk is /boot as well as vg_root.  The second disk has vg_home. 
> /boot fsck'd OK and I was able to activate and fsck vg_home.
> 
> vg_root contains a swap partition as well as / which lvscan shows is 224GB.
> 
> fsck /dev/vg_root/LogVol01    has resulted a line displaying
> 
> /dev/mapper/vg_root-LogVol01: recovering journal
> 
> and the disk activity light is on "solid".  I don't believe there to be
> a HW problem since /boot is on the same disk and checks OK.  So, the
> question is how long should this take?  Anyway to see if anything is
> actually happening/working?
> 
> Any other suggestions to getting / recovered?
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no suggestions on getting / recovered but with rescue mode, you should
be able to <Control><Alt><F3> (or is it F4) and see kernel messages -
sort of like /var/log/messages. Sometimes this is useful when patience
is lagging.

Craig


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