FORCESALVAGE(5)

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✨ FORCESALVAGE ✨

ok bestie, gather round, we're talking AFS File Reference energy today 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

FORCESALVAGE — the file that forces salvage of an entire partition 🔥

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so listen. The FORCESALVAGE file is a whole vibe check for your AFS server partition. If it's present on an AFS server partition (that's, like, inside a /vicep directory), it signals that the Salvager must salvage the entire partition. No cap. The whole thing. Every last crumb. 🧹✨

Who even makes this file? Not you, bestie. The AFS-modified version of the fsck program creates it — an empty, zero-length file — the moment it discovers corruption on the partition. It's giving "help me I'm unwell" 😭. And then the Salvager deletes the file once it finishes the salvage operation, because closure is important 🫶.

Now here's the part where things get dramatic 💀. When the File Server notices this file chilling on a partition it's currently attaching volumes on, it stops, detaches any volumes that are already attached, and exits — but not before it records a message in the /var/log/openafs/FileLog file. Very "I left a note on the fridge on my way out" of it. Then the Bos Server swoops in like the main character and invokes the Salvager to salvage that partition 👑.

fr fr, if you see FORCESALVAGE sitting on a partition, something went sideways. That file is not a decoration, it's a whole emergency beacon 🚨

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 this was the OpenAFS FORCESALVAGE(5) situation, dated 2026-07-27 — stan the Salvager, she never misses ✨💖 periodt 🎀

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