Re: LPAR's

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 10/27/03

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    Date:         Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:43:53 +0100
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Good point.

    Similar problems can occur if you use automount for home directories, where
    following a migration from 433 to 51 /u can end up as a symbolic link to
    /home, rather than being a directory. (No idea how this happens, but it
    seems common on our systems: trivial to fix once you realise what's going
    on.)

    Simon Green
    Altria ITSC Europe Ltd

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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Patrick B. O'Brien [mailto:pobrien@DOIT.NV.GOV]
    Sent: 27 October 2003 16:47
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: Re: LPAR's

    I've seen a file system mounted over the top of /home, which looks like
    /home was wiped out but actually covered up.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Green, Simon [mailto:Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM]
    Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 2:10 AM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: Re: LPAR's

    Unless you've somehow failed to spot a missing disk, then it's hard to
    believe that this could be caused by anything other than user/administrator
    error.

    Simon Green
    Altria ITSC Europe Ltd

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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Arif Mubeen [mailto:ArifM@TARDIS.COM.AU]
    Sent: 26 October 2003 23:47
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: LPAR's
    Hi all,

    We have Regatta 670 running four LPAR's on AIX 5.1 ( we are pushing the
    customer to go to 5.2 ) running TSM. Last week all of a sudden all the users
    home directories were wiped clean. We had to restore from previous backup
    and everything came back on.

    First it looked like the application ( DB2) must have kicked in some script
    which must have done it, but the application support have come back saying
    nothing is changed on the system and same scripts have been running and have
    ran after that with out any issues.

    We sent the "snap" to IBM and nothing useful have come from there either.
    Has any one experienced such a weird problem and is there is pointer which I
    can start looking at.

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