Re: Bad Inode Map on /tmp

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 09/22/05

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    fsck on an open filesystem can be misleading: if files are open and being
    updated you will often see these sorts of errors. If the fsck says it's
    clean, then it really is but if it shows errors they may not really be
    there.
     
    If you've done an fsck when /tmp was closed you can be confident that it's
    OK.
      

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Aron, Iming W.
Sent: 18 September 2005 17:06
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Bad Inode Map on /tmp
We did a fsck (and verifying the file system in smit) of /tmp, and got the
message "File system inode map is corrupt (NOT FIXED) on AIX 5.3 (5300-02)
and /dev/hd3 (/tmp): Bad Inode Map (NOT SALVAGED) on AIX 5.2 (5200-05). All
the 20+ partitions on our P570s, P690 and a newly installed AIX 5.3 (@
5300-02) test box (7026-H80) have the same message about bad inode map on
/tmp.
 
We brought one partition to single user mode and did an fsck on /tmp, it
indicated that the /tmp file system is clean, rebooted the system to
multiple user, still have the same message on /tmp. We repeated the same for
another partition, same result.
 
Do any of you seeing the same message? Thanks in advance.
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