system down - can't find luns (correction)

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Mon May 23 15:15:20 UTC 2005


On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:09:38AM -0500, Dana Holland wrote:
> Rigler, Stephen C. wrote:
> >It looks like your box can see the LUNs and they're mapped to /dev/sdb
> >and /dev/sdc.  Can you manually mount /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdb1 once the
> >machine is booted?
> 
> No, I get this:
> 
>  # mount /dev/sdb1
> mount: can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Try:

# mount /dev/sdb1 /usr/local/bbls
 
> # mount /dev/sdc1
> mount: can't find /dev/sdc1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
> 
> 
> But they're there:
> # cat /etc/fstab
[snip]
> LABEL=/dev/sdb1         /usr/local/bbls         ext2    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/dev/sdc1         /usr/local/bbcm         ext2    defaults        1 2

This is not the same thing.  This is looking for a label of /dev/sdb1
which is not the same as /dev/sdb1.  

Offhand, this doesn't sound good since if the label is gone, perhaps the
reset of the data on that lun is also gone...

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