Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide

Cause

If you have received the following messages from fsck(1M):


CANNOT READ: BLK 196896         
CONTINUE? y
THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 196896 196897 196898 196899
Or the following warnings from ufsdump(1M):

DUMP: Warning - cannot read sector 164016 of /dev/vx/rdsk/newdg/vol02 
DUMP: Warning - cannot read sector 164017 of /dev/vx/rdsk/newdg/vol02 
DUMP: Warning - cannot read sector 164018 of /dev/vx/rdsk/newdg/vol02
It could be that the size of this file system in this volume does not match the size of the regular file system.