Kir: Reverted edit of 1158264385, changed back to last version by Kir

2006-09-14T20:14:04Z

Reverted edit of 1158264385, changed back to last version by Kir

Kir: Reverted edit of 1158177933, changed back to last version by Rollinw

2006-09-13T21:45:08Z

Reverted edit of 1158177933, changed back to last version by Rollinw

Rollinw at 22:37, 10 July 2006

2006-07-10T22:37:02Z

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Correcting Mount information in a SUSE VE

After creating VPSs for 2 Suse templates (suse-9.3-x86_64 and opensuse-10-x86_64-default) I found that both showed incorrect mount information, both from the df -k command and the mount command. In both cases the /etc/fstab file had the wrong information.

I searched for evidence that others had found this problem, but didn't find any reports or posts. The answer to my problem was found in the document on Slackware Template Creation.

http://wiki.openvz.org/Slackware_template_creation

Before making the changes described below, one should stop
the VPS, if it is running:

/usr/sbin/vzctl stop nnn

Look in the document section,
Preparing the new VE
Getting the filesystem ready to run in a VE.
"Delete the file /etc/mtab and make it a symlink to
/proc/mounts"

This is the key to solving the problem, because the VPS needs to get its mount information from /proc/mounts

rm /vz/private/nnn/etc/mtab
ln -s /proc/mounts /vz/private/nnn/etc/mtab

Clean the /etc/fstab file

echo -n > /vz/private/nnn/etc/fstab

Slightly slower ways to accomplish the same goal are 1) edit the fstab file manually and delete all lines, or 2) with the
commands:

rm -f /vz/private/nnn/etc/fstab
touch /vz/private/nnn/etc/fstab
(make sure the permissions on the new empty fstab file are the
same as on the old one)

Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.S

It was necessary to modify the procedure slightly because of minor differences between Slackware and Suse. Suse does not have an rc.S file. Instead it uses script files whose names start with bootxxx. Suse has 2 files in /etc/rc.d/ that need to be edited; these are bootlocalfs and bootrootfsck. The edit action is almost the same: put a # character before any line that has

rm -f /etc/mtab(*)

In one of these files, the line containing the remove command had some other files as well. I deleted /etc/mtab from this list.

The Slackware document contains a number of other procedures too, but I was primarily interested in solving the mount problem.

After the changes are made, the VPS can be started:

/usr/sbin/vzctl start nnn

Log into the VPS with ssh.

Check the file /etc/fstab to make sure it is still empty:

cat /etc/fstab

Check that the link exists from /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab

ls -l /etc/mtab

Verify that mount and df -k correctly show that simfs is
mounted on / (the root filesystem) and has the correct
disk allocation.

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Rollinw at 22:37, 10 July 2006