Re: Reboot on "chfs" command

From: Bob Booth - CITES (booth_at_UIUC.EDU)
Date: 07/21/05

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    On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:40:05AM -0500, Morris, Carey B wrote:
    > We have a jfs2 filesystem that needs more space but when we issue a
    > "chfs" the server reboots. Fsck does not detect any problems. It is
    > very consistent because we've had to do it several times to prove to
    > people that we're not making this up.
    >
    > We started on AIX 5.2 ML4 and IBM had us try ML6 with the same results.
    > I'm sure we could create a new filesystem and copy everything to it but
    > that doesn't get to the root cause.
    >
    > Has anyone else run into something like this?

    This should not happen, unless the system is crashing. Check your errpt
    output and see if you are seeing notifications about the reboot in the
    log, or some other suspicious error.

    Check to make sure that the chfs script has not been modified.

    hth,

    bob

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