{"id":1827,"date":"2015-09-11T10:09:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T08:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2015-09-11T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T08:10:25","slug":"vmware-data-recovery-fails-with-the-error-ext3-fs-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"VMware Data Recovery fails with the error ext3-fs warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"docheading Resolution\">Resolution<\/h4>\n<div class=\"doccontent cc_Resolution\">\n<div>For VDR to detect the restore points, you must perform a file system check on the file system.<\/div>\n<div>To check the filesystem:<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the console of the VDR appliance as the root user<\/li>\n<li>To determine the block device to be checked, run this command against the <span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\">\/var\/log\/messages <\/span> file:<br \/>\n# grep -A 1 e2fsck \/var\/log\/messages<br \/>\nYou see an output similar to:<br \/>\n# kernel: EXT3-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended<br \/>\n# kernel: EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal<br \/>\nFrom the output, you can see that \/dev\/sdb1 is the device to be checked.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Run this command to boot VDR in\u00a0single user mode:<br \/>\n# init 1<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Run this command to unmount the filesystem:<br \/>\n<\/span># umount \/dev\/sdb1<\/li>\n<li>Run this command to perform a filesystem check on the block device found in Step 1:<br \/>\n# e2fsck -n \/dev\/sdb1<strong>Note:<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> The <\/span>-n<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> option ensures that the changes are not written to disk. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><b>Note:<\/b> If the e2fsck command says there is an issue with the file system is can be corrected with: <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\"># e2fsck \/dev\/sdb1<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Run this command to reboot the appliance in normal mode:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\"># init 6<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Verify \/var\/log\/messages log to see if the error is reported again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Original VMware KB Article<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/KB1020974\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1020974<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buarotti.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}