topic Re: file system mount order in Operating System - HP-UX

file system mount order

Carl Fry — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:16:44 GMT

I would like to force a specific mount order
for file systems on a N-Class, running HP-UX 11.00.

I've tried using fsck order, hoping it would mount after the filesystems have been fsck'ed but I get the same results regardless of how I configure the fstab. (This may be a really dumb question...)

Thanks.
(Originally miss-posted in the Servers forum) Opps...

Re: file system mount order

RAC_1 — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:29:23 GMT

As far as I can understand HP-UX you can not have control over mounting oreder at least for /stand-lvol1,swap and lvol3-root, other file systems it should be how you specify in /etc/fstab

Re: file system mount order

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:37:05 GMT

Hi Carl:

The 'pass number' field of '/etc/fstab' can be used to determine the order in which 'fsck's are done. See the man pages for 'fstab(4).

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: file system mount order

Pramod_4 — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:51:18 GMT

I do not think that there is way to control the FS mount sequence if the file systems are mounted from /etc/fstab.

You can do it if you have service guard configured and your file systems are mounted by the package control script of the MC/SG.

Thanks,

Pramod

Re: file system mount order

Marco Santerre — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:59:01 GMT

The pass number should do it as James mentionned. The mountall command used to mount all your file systems at the reboot will go through your /etc/fstab and will perform an fsck and based on the pass number will give priority to some file systems.

Re: file system mount order

Manju Kampli — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:48:36 GMT

The order of entries /etc/fstab is important only for entries without a pass number field.Entries without a pass number are sequentially checked by fsck after the entries with a pass number have been checked.

Re: file system mount order

fg_1 — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:48:43 GMT

Just assign a sequence of pass numbers in the sequence that you want the filesystems checked, it wont control which one's get mounted 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc... all this will ensure is that 1st done is 1st mounted and so on.

Gl

Frank G.

Re: file system mount order

paul courry — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:16:57 GMT

Ah! Lunch time for the pirahnas! Told ya they'd chew the meat off the bones in under an hour Carl.

Re: file system mount order

Ravi_8 — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 04:57:53 GMT

Hi,

You can't force mount order. Mounting order is based on pass number as in /etc/fstab.
/stand, / and swap and HFS file systems will be having pass number as 1 which will be checked(fsck) and mounted first before mounting other file systems