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Cannot delete NAS Storage Reference

Asked by wct296 in VMware, Linux

Tags: VMWare, ESX Server, 3.5

I recently upgraded one of my servers from Vmware ESX 3.0.2 to ESX 3.5... Before the upgrade I had in place a NAS storage reference which was working fine.. After the upgrade something went wrong... Now I have a file in the /vmfs/volumes folder that I cannot delete and as a result I cannot re-link ESX to the NAS storage...

I know the NAS storage box is working because on my other ESX server I can connect to it fine..

The main problem I have is a linux one... There is a file in the directory that does not list properly.. (see below for e24c5a25-3aa7c729)

[root@ESX1 volumes]# ls -l
ls: e24c5a25-3aa7c729: No such file or directory
total 1024
drwxrwxrwt    1 root     root         7140 Jan  3 14:30 473b1a29-80b7f018-f3ce-001d09142fc7
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           17 Jan  4 12:13 CLARKE E DRIVE -> e24c5a25-3aa7c729
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           35 Jan  4 12:13 storage1 -> 473b1a29-80b7f018-f3ce-001d09142fc7

and
[root@ESX1 volumes]# ls
473b1a29-80b7f018-f3ce-001d09142fc7  CLARKE E DRIVE  e24c5a25-3aa7c729  storage1

Thinks I have tried

1. rm -rf file
2. Deleting the VmKernel (used to create the NAS)
3. chown to root (failed)
[root@ESX1 volumes]# chown root e24c5a25-3aa7c729
chown: failed to get attributes of `e24c5a25-3aa7c729': No such file or directory

Its starting to point to corruption... and I'm at a loss as to how to delete a file that the system thinks isnt there.. My next step is to completely rebuild the box from scratch, which is a huge amount of work and downtime for the organisation.

Any ideas on how to delete this file or recover from this situation greatly appreciated.



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