fstab with dirty characters

[HDgio]

I have a fstab with of the dirty characters as I can clean up it and why it happens

[Zigor Buruaga]

Hi,

Are you referring to /etc/fstab or /etc/lvmtab?

Could you please post the file?

Kind regards,
Zigor

[Chris Wilshaw]

The invalid characters in fstab can be removed using the vi editor

This corruption will most likely have been caused by someone editting the file.

[RAC_1]

I think you are talking abt /etc/fstab only and /etc/lvmtab.(lvmtab is not a text file, should not be edited in any way)

To reconstruct the /etc/fstab file do mount -p and redirect it to a file. Also check it has appropriate permissions.

Hope this helps.

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

The fstab is a text file, and can be edited with vi. Normally it is only checked when the server is booting. What you can do is:

edit the fstab and:
# mount -a

the respond should be like:

mount: /dev/vg00/lvol8 is already mounted on /var
mount: /dev/vg01/lvol1 is already mounted on /var/opt/ignite
mount: /dev/vg00/lvol7 is already mounted on /usr
mount: /dev/vg00/lvol6 is already mounted on /tmp
mount: /dev/vg00/lvol5 is already mounted on /opt
mount: /dev/vg00/lvol4 is already mounted on /home
mount: /dev/vg00/lvol1 is already mounted on /stand

Gideon

[HDgio]

Excuse me
I do not have the headl, the file is lvmtab
with dirty characters

[T G Manikandan]

lvmtab is not a text file.

you can view the contents using

#strings /etc/lvmtab

[Zigor Buruaga]

Hi,

OK, now it's clear. lvmtab is not a text file.
Try with:
# strings /etc/lvmtab

Kind regards,
Zigor

[RAC_1]

/etc/lvmtab file is not text file. It is logical volume table details file.

DO
strings /etc/lvmtab

[T G Manikandan]

The best way would be to use

vgdisplay for the VG configurations.

strings is a command which can show the ASCII contents of binary file

[HDgio]

I would want to clean up it and not to visualize the content
Thanks to all

[HDgio]

this is the output file of the
strings /etc/lvmtab
/dev/vg00
/dev/dsk/c3t2d0
/dev/dsk/c3t0d0
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0
/dev/vg_cem01
/dev/dsk/c4t2d0
/dev/dsk/c4t1d0
/dev/vg_doc_DISK1
1ia?
/dev/dsk/c10t0d2
/dev/dsk/c10t0d3
/dev/vg_doc_DISK0
/dev/dsk/c10t0d0
/dev/dsk/c10t0d1
/dev/dsk/c10t0d4
/dev/dsk/c10t0d5
What is 1ia?

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Giuseppe,

It's just extraneous vg header info. There's nothing you can do to get rid of it so there's nothing to worry about it. Here's mine:
/dev/vg00
~0;TMm
/dev/dsk/c1t6d0
/dev/dsk/c1t5d0

It's got garbage in it too (~0;TMm), but it's not something to be fixed. That's just the way it is.


Pete

[HDgio]

thanks to all

[Angus Crome]

Try

strings /etc/lvmtab | grep dev

[HDgio]

Very nice thanks and excuse my stupidity
Bye

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi Giuseppe,

you may not have the knowledge or the training but I wouldnt call that stupidity. Dont be so hard on yourself. Just keep on learning. ;-))

greetings,

Michael

[Angus Crome]

Giuseppe,

Sorry if my previous post seemed curt, it was not intended as such. One of my bosses had just stepped into my cube, with "THAT" look on his face, so I needed to answer quick.
As is generally the case, he was blowing things way out of proportion.

Anyway, I'm glad it helped.