User Guide

40 Novell Storage Services Administration Guide
Novell Storage Services Administration Guide
103-000141-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
The server console displays a mirroring error when the server boots. This
mirroring refers to the two copies of FATs and DETs that the operating
system keeps (if disks are mirrored, NetWare keeps four copies).
If a volume fails to mount as the server is booting, VREPAIR loads
automatically and attempts to repair the volume.
When VREPAIR autoloads, it uses the default options. If you want to use an
alternate option, load VREPAIR manually and set the alternate option before
running VREPAIR.
NOTE: If you don't want VREPAIR to automatically repair a volume that won't
mount, use the SET parameter named Automatically Repair Bad Volumes to
change the default.
Prerequisites
The volume you want to repair must be dismounted.
If the volume to be repaired has name space support, the corresponding
VREPAIR name space module (V_namespace.NLM) must be located in
either the SYS:SYSTEM directory or in a search path directory.
Example modules include V_MAC.NLM and V_LONG.NLM.
Procedure
1
At the server console prompt, enter
VREPAIR [volume_name] [logfile_name]
(Optional) Replace volume name with the name of the volume to repair.
If there is only one volume that is dismounted, you don't need to specify
this parameter, since VREPAIR will attempt to repair that volume.
(Optional) If you want to save the error log, replace the logfile_name with
the name of the file you want VREPAIR to create. VREPAIR creates a log
of errors it finds. VREPAIR displays the errors on screen and will write
them to a file if you specify a filename.
When you load VREPAIR, an Options menu is displayed.
2 Accept the default options, or select alternate options, as appropriate.
The first time you try to repair a volume, accept the default options. If the
default options fail to repair the volume, select alternate options.
2a To accept the default options, continue with Step 3.