Finding the last mountpoint

[Michael F. Dick]

Hi there,

How can I find out where a filesystem was previously mounted. (e.g. splitting bcv's and mounting on a different host)

Michael

[boley janowski]

im guessing the /etc/fstab is not an option, or an old backup of the /etc/fstab. Wishful thinking. Some bcv setups use something along the lines of a database created based on how the disk are allocated and this may be an option. I would look for old copies of bdf or /etc/fstab.

good luck

[Volker Borowski]

Unless it has already been re-mounted, you can do an fsck which will tell you where it was last mounted.

Volker

[Ravi_8]

if u have an old backup, u can look into path of any file in that filesystem or fstab file

[Chin Guan]

If it's a HFS file system, fsck will tell you the last mounted mount point. e.g.

fsck -F hfs /dev/vgdata/lvol1
** /dev/vgdata/lvol1
** Last Mounted on /MountPoint


But fsck on a vxfs file system will not tell you this information.

[Michael F. Dick]

Sorry, here is some more info: It's a vxfs filesystem. Due to the bcv backups, we have to create a volume group on the backup host (raw device backup is not an option). Getting the last mount point would ease the administrative work to get the bcv backup going. Is there any way, I can get the mount point out of the superblock (e.g. dd)??

Thanks again