VMware Data Recovery fails with the error ext3-fs warning
11. September 2015 | In: VMware
Resolution
For VDR to detect the restore points, you must perform a file system check on the file system.
To check the filesystem:
- Log in to the console of the VDR appliance as the root user
- To determine the block device to be checked, run this command against the /var/log/messages file:
# grep -A 1 e2fsck /var/log/messages
You see an output similar to:
# kernel: EXT3-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
# kernel: EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
From the output, you can see that /dev/sdb1 is the device to be checked.
- Run this command to boot VDR in single user mode:
# init 1 - Run this command to unmount the filesystem:
# umount /dev/sdb1 - Run this command to perform a filesystem check on the block device found in Step 1:
# e2fsck -n /dev/sdb1Note: The -n option ensures that the changes are not written to disk.
Note: If the e2fsck command says there is an issue with the file system is can be corrected with:
# e2fsck /dev/sdb1 - Run this command to reboot the appliance in normal mode:
# init 6
- Verify /var/log/messages log to see if the error is reported again.
Original VMware KB Article
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1020974