Mount Point /home

For Solaris 10, I created a separate VDI disk for /home. I would like to use this same disk for Solaris 11. Do you know how to turn off all the auto-home stuff so I can use /home as a mount point?

I have found some more info that makes the following steps work on one of my S11.1 systems but not on the other S11.1 system and they are configured identically. Can't figure it out. Maybe someone else can comment. Here are the steps:
1. I don't know if this matters but would be worth checking to see that the automount is set to files. It is by default.
# grep automount /etc/nsswitch.conf
automount: files ldap
2. Disable the /home entry in /etc/auto_master and also move the +auto_master entry to the end of the file, like this:
/net -hosts -nosuid,nobrowse
#/home auto_home -nobrowse
/nfs4 -fedfs -ro,nosuid,nobrowse
+auto_master
3. Refresh the autofs service instance:
# svcadm refresh svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default
4. Test that the /home mountpoint is available:
# mkdir /home/test
Thanks, Cindy

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Unable to open and save across mount point

Why do these forums appear so neglected?
Here's is my on-going question/problem:
General input/output error while accessing /home/MyDir/mountedDir/SomeDire/TheFileName
I experience a "feature" wherein I cannot open and save documents across an NFS mount point from a Linux client.
This is an error rcv'd on Linux, GNOME 2.8.*, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6
The mount is accomplished via an entry in the fstab as shown:
server-hostname:/export/mydir /home/mydir/mountdir nfs tcp,user,rw,rsize=32768 0 0
server-hostname is a Solaris OS.

Sounds like you are missing some of the required plugins - possibly an updater failed, or someone moved/deleted the wrong directory.
Yes, you'll need to reinstall to restore the missing plugins.

How do I mount a partition at a specific mount point.

How do I mount a partition at a specific mount point? For example I see a Vol01 disk image, which is a partition of one of my hard drives, sitting on my desktop. Under the disk utility it says that its mount point is /Volumes/Vol01. How do I mount this partition as a file system at /Users?
Thanks, much appreciated.

why do you want to do this? it sounds like you want to keep your home directory on an external drive. this can be done without changing the mount point of the external. copy the home directory to the external. then in system preferences preferences->accounts, unlock the lock at the bottom, control-click on your user and select "advanced options." In the resulting popup change the location of the home directory to the external.
in general to change the default mount point of a drive see this link
http://beta.jamesstroud.com/jamess-miscellaneous-how-tos/os-x-admin/os-x-firewir e-mount-point

Mobile accounts WHICH MOUNT POINT?

How does a machine handling a mobile account
a. know how to set $HOME ?
b. know where to mount the folder during sync?
The scenario and problem:
(can u help?)(you'll win a free beer if you come to Switzerland).
I have the user's files stored in /Volumes/team1/users/user1
The folder /Volumes/team1 is mounted on a local drive on server1.
The server1 share point, called 'users' is /Volumes/team1/users
(sounds simple.. doesn't it
In config-scenario1 I do this:
The user's share point URL is afp://server1.disneyland.ch/users
The path to home folder is user1
The full path is /Network/Servers/server1.disneyland.ch/users/user1
THIS WORKS ON CLIENT MAC1
When logged in (via login panel), the $HOME is set to /Users/user1
and during syncing I see /Volumes/users mounted temporarily (weird,.. it used to show the temporary mount as /Network/Servers/server1.disneyland.ch/users )
user1@mac1:~ > pwd
/Users/user1
user1@mac1:~ >
THIS WORKS ON SERVER1
When I ssh into the user, on server1,
I see $HOME set to /Network/Servers/server1.disneyland.ch/users/user1
user1@server1:~ > pwd
/Network/Servers/server1.disneyland.ch/users/user1
user1@server1:~ >
THIS DOES NOT WORK ON SERVER2
On server2 where the same external drive is mounted (it's an Xsan using fiber-channel)
I get this:
user1$ cd ~
-bash: cd: /Network/Servers/server1.disneyland.ch/users/user1: No such file or directory
SOLUTION1 (that fails)(aka config-scenario 2)
The user's share point URL is afp://server1.disneyland.ch/users
The path to home folder is user1
Set the full path to /Volumes/team1/users/user1
THIS WORKS ON MAC1
THIS WORKS ON SERVER1
THIS CAUSES PROBLEMS ON SERVER2 : (see this posting: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=581557 ).
Questions :
1. How is the HOME folder determined by the computer? Despite the two config-scenarios, the client mac1 uses HOME as /Users/user1 (as it should) but not on Server1 or Server2 (on Server1 it always uses the value in the full path specified in the Mobility>Home for the user)(In Server2 it sometimes uses that value and sometimes it uses the previous configuration value).
2. How is the MOUNT on the client determined? It seems that it is always /Volumes/users (as it should?); Perhaps it is identified by the system seeing what is behind the user's share point? What's weird is that I'm sure/certain that at one point, under config-scenario1, the mount point on mac8 was NOT /Volumes/users but rather /Network/Servers/server1.disneyland.ch ! Did I dream that ?
3. How can I PREVENT the mount happening on Server2 (it's mounting on top of the existing /Volumes/team1/users !!) ?
4. If I DO accept config-scenario1, couldn't I just create a symbolic link on server2 in /Network/Server/server1.disneyland.ch/users-->/Volumes/team1/users ?? Actually this doesn't work because even with sudo I can't mkdir /Networks/Servers/server1.disneyland.ch into which I wold have make the users-> link
ARGHHH!
Thanx for any insight.
/shawn

DrKdev wrote:
I've bumped the topic over there:
Then please do not do so here. The point of posting to the appropriate forum is to attract users with interest & expertise in that area. Bumping here, in an inappropriate forum, is annoying since it just keeps the topic near the top of this forum's list where users that have no expertise with or interest in the issue will keep seeing it.
This generally does not increase your chances of a reply; if anything it will prompt some users to ignore both of your topics.

How to determine the mount point for directory /tmp ?

Folks,
Hello. I am installing Oracle 11gR2 RAC using 2 Virtual Machines (rac1 and rac2 whose OS are Oracle Linux 5.6) in VMPlayer and according to the tutorial
http://appsdbaworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/10/11gr2-rac-on-linux-56-using-vmware.html
I am installing Grid infrastructure. I am on step 7 of 10 (verify Grid installation enviroment) and get this error:
"Free Space: Rac2: /tmp"
Cause: Could not determine mount point for location specified.
Action: Ensure location specified is available.
Expected value: n/a
Actual value: n/a
I have checked the free space using the command:
[root@Rac2 /]# df -k /tmp
Output:
Filesystem 1k-blocks used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 30470144 7826952 21070432 28% /
As you see above, the free space is enough, but could not determine mount point for /tmp.
Do any folk understand how to determine the mount point for directory /tmp ?
Thanks.

I have just checked "/home/oracle/.bash_profile". But in my computer, there is no "oracle" under /home directory.Is this your first time Linux and Oracle installation? I had a brief look at your referenced link. The reason why you do not find a "oracle" user is because the instructions use "ora11g" instead, which, btw, is not standard. The directories of your installation and your installation source can be somewhat different from known standards and you will have to adjust it to your system.
My best guess is that you have either missed something in the instructions or you need to ask the author of the blog what is wrong. The chance to find someone here who has experience with these custom instructions is probably unlikely.
I suggest you try to locate the cluster verification tool, which should be in the bin directory of your grid installation. Alternatively you might want to check the RAC, ASM & Clusterware Installation forum: RAC, ASM & Clusterware Installation

How to create Mount Point in Linux

Hi,
I m new to Linux OS, want to install Oracle EBS R12 on OEL 5.6 . I have downloaded s/w and installed all required packages for OEL.
Now i want to create Staging directory at location /u01/StageR12.
Can anyone guide me for how to create Mount point /u01 and how to assign space of 53 GB to it.... ?
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You're on the right path.
Keep in mind though what you need partition wise just for o/s install. You should have at least 3 partitions:
- a ?? GB partition for the / (root) mount (the size depends on what you will install and how much space you will need for running that s/w)
- a 128MB or larger partition for the /boot mount
- a ?? GB partition as swap space mount (typically rule of thumb is 2x RAM for 4GB and lower, else around 25% of total RAM)
I would not create separate partitions for the old-style +/u01+ mount points for Oracle. That part of the OFA (Oracle Flexible Architecture) standards are old and pre-ASM and pre- automated Oracle managed data files.
You need space for installing an Oracle Home. I do not see the need for a dedicated mount point for that. I use the root file system.
You need space for the actual database. If you use Oracle ASM, then I would create raw partitions (across disks) to be used for database storage. These will not be mounted or formatted. Instead these will be assigned to an ASM diskgroup (and striped by default) and used for database storage.
If you do not use ASM, then you need a cooked file system for storage of database file. In that case separate mount point(s) make sense. Also, it makes sense not to manually apply the old OFA standards, but instead use Oracle managed database files. In that case you need a single mount point (e.g.<i>/oracledb</i>) - and set that as the base directory for Oracle to use for the database. Oracle will create an OFA compliant database directory tree and files under that base directory/mount point.
Keep in mind that the more mount points you have for the database, the more difficult your job becomes to manage storage. The easiest is a single mount point for the database and using Oracle to manage the OFA compliant side for you on that mount point.
Also, you cannot and should not attempt some kind of manual striping layout of the database across multiple mountpoints. This may have made some sense back 10+ years ago. It no longer does.

Installing Oracle RAC problem: Could not determine /tmp mount point

Folks,
Hello. I am installing Oracle 11gR2 RAC using 2 Virtual Machines (rac1 and rac2 whose OS are Oracle Linux 5.6) in VMPlayer and according to the tutorial
http://appsdbaworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/10/11gr2-rac-on-linux-56-using-vmware.html
I am installing Grid infrastructure. I am on step 7 of 10 (verify Grid installation enviroment) and get this error:
"Free Space: Rac2: /tmp"
Cause: Could not determine mount point for location specified.
Action: Ensure location specified is available.
Expected value: n/a
Actual value: n/a
I have checked the free space using the command:
[root@Rac2 /]# df -k /tmp
Output:
Filesystem 1k-blocks used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 30470144 7826952 21070432 28% /
As you see above, the free space is enough, but could not determine mount point for /tmp.
Do any folks understand how to determine the mount point for directory /tmp ?
Thanks.

Folks,
Hello. I have found the file ./bash_profile under /home/ora11g/ and the file is invisible. However, I edit the file using the command:
[ora11g@Rac2 ~]$ vi /home/ora11g/.bash_profile
I add the 2 lines into the file as below:
TMP=/tmp; export TMP
TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR
I save the file .bash_profile and reboot Oracle Linux 5.6 and check again on step 7 of 10 in the Installer, but the problem is still not solved.
Can any folk help to solve the strange problem "could not determine mount point for /tmp" ?
Thanks.

Creating new mount points on pre installed Solaris 2.7

Creating new mount points on pre installed Solaris 2.7

Hi,
Thanks for suggestion.
I have checked note 1521371, so as per note I have to provide the locations as given below..
For PI1 (i.e. PI Development)...............
Oracle Base Location : /oracle/PI1
Oracle Home Location : /oracle/PI1/112_64
Inventory Directory : /oracle/PI1
For PI2 (i.e. PI Production)...............
Oracle Base Location : /oracle/PI2
Oracle Home Location : /oracle/PI2/112_64
Inventory Directory : /oracle/PI2
Correct me if I am wrong..
Could you please tell me, does we need to set the ORACLE environmental variables i.e. ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_STAGE before start the ORACLE database installation?
Kindly suggest,
Thanks and regards,
Amit....

To Extend the mount point in RHEL 4

Hi Guys,
I have Oracle EBS R12 and 11i in one hard disk but different mount points. Now my requirement is to extend the mount point for EBS R12.
Below is my my point and available space on server.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 49G 13G 34G 28% /
/dev/sda3 145G 97G 41G 71% /apps1
*/dev/sdb2 289G 272G 2.8G 100% /apps12*
/dev/sda2 145G 80G 58G 59% /apps2
none 1.3G 0 1.3G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7 981M 517M 415M 56% /home
/dev/sda5 58G 51G 4.6G 92% /stage
/dev/sda8 2.0G 36M 1.8G 2% /tmp
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I want to extend the apps12 mount point? please help me.
Thanks in advance.
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Nikunj

You cannot simply extend a partition or volume under RHEL4 unless it is:
- virtual disk
- LVM
- physical free space avaiable
Your available options may depend on the output of the following commands:
<pre>
mount
parted -s /dev/sdb print
</pre>

Btrfs with different file systems for different mount points?

Hey,
I finally bought a SSD, and I want to format it to f2fs (and fat to boot on UEFI) and install Arch on it, and in my old HDD I intend to have /home and /var and try btrfs on them, but I saw in Arch wiki that btrfs "Cannot use different file systems for different mount points.", it means I cannot have a / in f2fs and a /home in btrfs? What can I do? Better use XFS, ZFS or ext4 (I want the faster one)?
Thanks in advance and sorry my english.

pedrofleck wrote:Gosh, what was I thinking, thank you! (I still have a doubt: is btrfs the best option?)
Just a few weeks ago many of us were worrying about massive data loss due to a bug introduced in kernel 3.17 that caused corruption when using snapshots. Because btrfs is under heavy developement, this sort of thing can be expected. That said, I have my entire system running with btrfs. I have 4 volumes, two raid1, a raid0 and a jbod. I also run rsync to an ext4 partition and ntfs. Furthermore I make offline backups as well.
If you use btrfs make sure you have backups and make sure you are ready to use them. Also, make sure you check sum your backups. rsync has the option to use checksums in place of access times to determine what to sync.

Custom mount point in fstab

Hello,
I am setting up a nas. I have configured a partition scheme that seems suitable for me. I have a problem though, I can not seem to mount a partiton to a custom mount point.
The system is up to date, I just installed it last night. Here is my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
UUID=4e373785-4fc9-4b97-aadc-adcbc523bbac /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=50c83b59-b938-4945-9578-39ab7c40d93b / ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=8e87d854-a344-4a3c-950f-9831c0811ea2 /data ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=972cce0c-3c35-4d8a-a0d6-719794bc2766 /tm ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=d6f940d8-ce03-45c3-bfa9-b7dd83cebbb9 /var reiserfs defaults 0 1
UUID=f01dc9e8-a182-4b89-8043-f6f73690ad6c swap swap defaults 0 0
I want /tm for time machine and /data for samba sharing. If I change /data to /home and /tm to /tmp, everything mounts fine. Is there some reason why I shouldn't be able to mount a partition to a custom mount point? I did this two weeks ago on another box that I set up as a test...
Also, if I run fdisk -l, it tells me that some of my partitions do not start on physical sector boundaries. Is that casue for alarm? I created the partitions with cfdisk and nothing seemed odd when I was doing it...??
[root@nas ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 192779 96358+ 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda2 192780 1465149167 732478194 5 Extended
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5 192843 5076539 2441848+ 83 Linux
Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda6 5076603 6056504 489951 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda7 6056568 15824024 4883728+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 15824088 1090042379 537109146 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 1090042443 1465149167 187553362+ 83 Linux
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Any insight?

bnb2235 wrote:
Also, if I run fdisk -l, it tells me that some of my partitions do not start on physical sector boundaries. Is that casue for alarm? I created the partitions with cfdisk and nothing seemed odd when I was doing it...??
[root@nas ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 192779 96358+ 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda2 192780 1465149167 732478194 5 Extended
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5 192843 5076539 2441848+ 83 Linux
Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda6 5076603 6056504 489951 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda7 6056568 15824024 4883728+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 15824088 1090042379 537109146 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 1090042443 1465149167 187553362+ 83 Linux
Partition 9 does not start on physical sector boundary.
AFAIK, if you don't align them it will cause performance issues. Check this site: http://johannes-bauer.com/linux/wdc/?menuid=3

Question about changing zonepath from one mount point to another

Hi all
A local zone is currently running with its zonepath, say /export/home/myzone, mounted on a Veritas volume. Is it possible to change the zonepath to a different mount point, say /zone/myzone, which is mounted on the same volume, without re-installing the entire zone?
Regards
Sunny

Yes..
U can use zonecfg to reconfigure the zone..
which is Sun's supported way..
I just usually edit /zones/zone-name.xml
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always worked for me..
- stop the zone
- tar the zone
- move the zone
- edit the /etc/zones/zone-name.xml (to reflect the new path)
- detach the zone
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- boot the zone
hth

Time Machine (OSX) doesn't back up files in Mount Point or Disk Image File

Hi all,
I have two disk images which are scripted to be mounted on login. These two disk images are always mounted to the same location. These two disk images are encrypted TrueCrypt volumes.
Time Machine (TM) will only back up the disk images the first time they are mounted, but not after that. As I modify documents within the volumes throughout the day, the modified timestamps are adjusted properly. However, TM does not back them up. TM never backs up the mount points which are two folders within my home directory.
Any ideas as to why neither the mount point or the image files are backed up? Do the image files have to be closed (unmounted) after being modified for TM to back them up?
Now if TM won't back up the image files because they are locked/open, then why does it back them up the first time even though they are mounted? Also, from what I've read, TM should back up any HFS+ drive which is mounted. Both these drives are HFS+, so it should back up the mount points? I can verify this by doing a 'mount' in the terminal, the following is echo'd back:
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) (Main System Drive)
/dev/disk1 on /Users/username/Folder1 (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners, mounted by username) (First TrueCrypt volume)
/dev/disk2 on /Users/username/Folder2 (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners, mounted by username)(Second TrueCrypt volume)
Any ideas will help!
Thanks,
Chris
Message was edited by: sleagle328

Here is the resolution:
Apparently time machine checks the parent folder's timestamp before moving into that folder to look for modified files.
So as I was modifying files, the timestamps on the volumes were changing but not the containing directory. Because of this, TimeMachine saw the parent directory had not changed, so did not look for the changed volumes inside.
So to resolve this, I wrote a simple touch script which touches the parent directory to match the modified volumes timestamp (if there is a modified volume).
Thanks,
Chris
Message was edited by: sleagle328

9i mount points Solaris

I have spent the past two nights working on my first Oracle install, on Solaris 5.9. Simple install, one disk on one SUN Blade 100. This install will be used to learn Oracle hands on in preparation for Oracle certification. One of my questions involves the mount points. I understand this is a customary Solaris mount point, a directory. My question is where do I make the directory(s) /u01 /u02 etc. Absolute pathnames names would be most helpful. From my reading on the net it seems I might just need one mount point. Please advise me regarding the mount points. Again this is a non production install that will have little use. Performance is not a concern. Thank you in advance for your help. Please keep in mind this is my first install, verbose responses welcome.
[email protected]
Here is the df -k output.
->df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 134335 90144 30758 75% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 1052334 728317 260877 74% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 57063 48815 Long postings are being truncated to ~1 kB at this time.

You need to have at least two mount points (ideally four) to do the default install. Under /u01 would be your oracle home and the rest would be for the datafiles. Normally these would be in separate slices and preferably on a different disk from the OS, so if you only have one disk you may need to re-install solaris to allow room for oracle.
valeyard
OCP-DBA, SCSA

Duplicate Mount Point "Documents 1" after improper reboot

Hi, I recently cold rebooted my SR-MBP (running 10.5.6), and on logging back in, I discovered to my utter surprise that my desktop had been restored to Factory State with all my preferences lost.
I have my HDD set up with two partitions. Partition 1 - "Macintosh HD" is the Leopard partition, and Partition 2 - "Documents" is where I had moved my HOME folder, and therefore contains all my Preferences, Documents, etc.
On closer examination, using Disk Utility I found that the "Documents" Partition had been renamed to "Documents 1", and my Home folder was mapped to /Volumes/Documents/Home. I remapped it to /Volumes/Documents \1/Home (the current renamed location) and it didn't solve the issue.
I found Apple's help on the issue http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24241?viewlocale=en_US . It suggests among other things to move the contents of the false Mount Point to /
[quote]Type this command, followed by Return, to move the contents of the false mount point:
mv "Documents 1" / [/quote]
I am not too sure of this step, does this move the contents (which would take forever for me since I have a 400 GB partition - nearly full), or just create a mount point? If it actually moves the contents, I would rather reinstall Leopard, as that would be faster for me. But I guess I am lost here... how does this work? Any help would be highly appreciated.

Just to add some detail here, in case this help those who come across this thread:
1. If the duplicate mount point is associated with an external drive, eject the drive or restart the Mac with the drive powered off.
2. Go to Finder by toggling Command + Tab across available selections.
3. Select Go > Go to Folder... (or press Shift + Command + G)
4. If necessary, type /Volumes in the displayed dialog box, and press Go.
5. You should see a folder in the displayed list with the offending name; right-click it, and select Move to Trash.
That should do it!
Good luck!

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