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Kendall
Asked: 2011-04-28 07:32:54 +0800 CST

OCFS2: "Bad magic number in inode" every time mounting specific volume; fsck fixes it?

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I have 5 OCFS2 volumes on an iSCSI SAN that a handful (5) of servers mount. There is one volume in particular that never mounts cleanly after reboot. The error you get when trying to mount is

hamguy:/dev/disk/by-label # /etc/init.d/ocfs2 start
Starting Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS2) mount.ocfs2: Bad magic number in inode while
trying to determine heartbeat information

The only way I've found to fix it is by

fsck.ocfs2 /dev/sde1

fsck reports an error trying to lock the cluster down, and then exits. The volume is now able to be mounted.

OCFS2 information

kendal@hamguy:~> rpm -qa |grep ocfs2
ocfs2console-1.4.1-25.6.x86_64
ocfs2-tools-o2cb-1.4.1-25.6.x86_64
ocfs2-tools-1.4.1-25.6.x86_64

Operating system is OpenSuSE 11.2 x86.

Has anyone some insight into this?

Thanks,

Kendall

linux ocfs2

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    dump2fs /dev/sde1 | grep 'superblock'
fsck.ocfs2 -b ALTERNATE_SB # is one of the backup superblocks.

    i would have a backup before ...

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