vxfs filesystem in a Disk Group not mounted or failed to fsck during boot time on SuSE Linux

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Details:

SuSE Linux (SLES 10) not able to mount Or fsck vxfs filesystem specified in /etc/fstab

Following error is seen during booting:

Checking file systems...

fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)

Checking all file systems.

error on stat() /dev/vx/dsk/datadg/vol1: No such file or directory

Solution:

1. Make sure to import DG without -t option and do not deport it before reboot
If you deport DG, hostid flag gets cleared for the disks belonging to that DG and system will not import it during next reboot

2. You need to add mount option hotplug in /etc/fstab and fs_passno (sixth's option) should be 1

For example:

/dev/vx/dsk/datadg/vol1 /mnt/vol1 vxfs _netdev,hotplug 0 1

With this configuration, system fsck will skip it during, boot but vxvm-boot script will do fsck

Products Applied:
File System for UNIX/Linux 5.0 (Linux)
Storage Foundation for UNIX/Linux 5.0 (Linux)

Last Updated: November 18 2008 05:12 PM GMT
Expires on: 11-14-2009

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SLES 10

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