max allowable mount points.

[Ian Killer_1]

Hi all...

Where can I increase the maximum number of allowable mount points? Here's my situation...

# mount -F vxfs /dev/vg01/VGID /tmp_mnt
vxfs mount: /dev/vg01/VGID is already mounted, /tmp_mnt is busy,
or allowable number of mount points exceeded

# fuser -u /tmp_mnt
/tmp_mnt:

# fuser -cu /tmp_mnt
/tmp_mnt: fuser: could not find file system mounted at /tmp_mnt.

#

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi,
/tmp_mnt is used by automounter.
U can not use that file system.
If you don't want automounter the stop it
#/sbin/init.d/nfs.client stop
or
edit /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf
Automount=0
from SAM also you can disable automount.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Check /dev/vg01 for duplicate minor numbers.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dietmar Konermann]

Hi,

it is really unlikely that you hit that limit here. I furthermore believe that /tmp_mnt is busy for some reason, _although_ fuser reports nothing.

Probably there is something mounted into it? Or it is the automounter that makes your mount impossible...

Try to mount the lvol to another, freshly created directory as a test.

Regards...
Dietmar.

[Ian Killer_1]

Duplicate minor number it is. Thanks....

# ls -l /dev/vg01
total 0
brw-r----- 1 root sys 64 0x010001 Sep 27 06:25 VGID
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 64 0x010000 Sep 27 06:22 group
brw-r----- 1 root sys 64 0x010001 Oct 1 12:11 lvol1
brw-r----- 1 root sys 64 0x010002 Oct 1 12:11 lvol2
brw-r----- 1 root sys 64 0x010003 Sep 27 06:25 lvol3
crw-r----- 1 root sys 64 0x010001 Sep 27 06:25 rVGID
crw-r----- 1 root sys 64 0x010001 Sep 27 06:25 rlvol1
crw-r----- 1 root sys 64 0x010002 Sep 27 06:25 rlvol2
crw-r----- 1 root sys 64 0x010003 Sep 27 06:25 rlvol3

Which means this fs could never have been mounted. Which probably means an error from the former admin for this box.

Ta muchly.