Enabling a File System to auto mount at Boot Time

[Manjunath Shastry]

Hi Gurus,

How do I make a File System to automount at boot time ?


Regards,
Manjunath.

[James Murtagh]

Hi Manjunath,

You would add an entry for the filesystem in /etc/fstab.

Regards,

James.

[John Poff · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Just put an entry in your /etc/fstab file. You'll specify the logical volume and the mountpoint.

Also, you might want to check your /etc/lvmrc file to make sure the AUTO_VG_ACTIVATE flag is set to 1. If not, you'll have to add the volume group to the function at the bottom of the file that activates the volume groups.

JP

[Michael Tully]

Here is an example of options used to mount some filesystems with /etc/fstab

# System /etc/fstab file. Static information about the file systems
# See fstab(4) and sam(1M) for further details on configuring devices.
/dev/vg00/lvol3 / vxfs delaylog 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol1 /stand hfs defaults 0 1
/dev/vg00/lvol4 /opt vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol5 /tmp vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol6 /usr vxfs delaylog 0 2
/dev/vg00/lvol7 /var vxfs delaylog 0 2
# Set up apps1 volume group
/dev/apps1/informix /informix vxfs rw,suid,delaylog,datainlog 0 2
/dev/apps1/export /export vxfs rw,suid,delaylog,datainlog,largefiles 0 2
/dev/apps1/home /home vxfs rw,suid,delaylog,datainlog 0 2
/dev/apps1/patrol /patrol vxfs rw,suid,delaylog,datainlog 0 2
/dev/apps1/exchange /exchange vxfs rw,suid,nolargefiles,delaylog,datainlog 0 2
/dev/apps1/local /usr/local vxfs rw,suid,nolargefiles,delaylog,datainlog 0 2
/dev/apps1/omni /omni_db vxfs rw,suid,delaylog,datainlog,largefiles 0 2

[T G Manikandan]

Make entries in /etc/fstab
for the file system.

check the man pages of fstab.


Thanks

[V. V. Ravi Kumar_1]

Hi,
if u want any filesystem to be mounted at boot time u must put an entry in /etc/fstab, some thing like this
/dev/vg00/lbmksrc /bmksrc vxfs rw,suid,nolargefiles,delaylog,datainlog 0 2

Duting system boot, it reads /etc/fstab to mount file systems on respective mount points.

Regards

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

Make the entry in /etc/fstab
and also ensure that AUTO_VG_ACTIVATE=1 in /etc/lvmrc

[Pradeep_3]

Hi

As all others said,

Ensure that AUTO_VG_ACTIVATE=1 in /etc/lvmrc file

Also Make the entry for the file system in in /etc/fstab file with proper parameters as given examples in previous answers.

Paresh

[Manjunath Shastry]

Gurus,

Thank you for your suggestions, after making an entry in /etc/fstab, the File System is mounting at Boot Time.

Regards,
Manjunath.