Mounting An Ocfs2 Volume - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 08-05-2008 Installation Manual

14.7 Mounting an OCFS2 Volume

1 Open a terminal window and log in as the root user.
2 If the O2CB cluster service is offline, start it by entering the following command,
3 Use one of the following methods to mount the volume.
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OCFS2 Pa- Description and Recommendation
rameter
Options are 512 bytes (not recommended), 1 KB, 2 KB, or 4
KB (recommended for most volumes). Block size cannot be
modified after the volume is formatted.
then wait for the process to return a status of OK.
/etc/init.d/o2cb online ocfs2
Replace ocfs2 with the actual cluster name of your OCFS2 cluster.
The OCFS2 cluster must be online, because the format operation must ensure
that the volume is not mounted on any node in the cluster.
• In the ocfs2console, select a device in the Available Devices list and
click Mount. Optionally, specify the directory mount point and mount options
and click OK.
• Mount the volume from the command line, using the mount command.
• Mount the volume from the /etc/fstab file on system boot.
Mounting an OCFS2 volume takes about 5 seconds, depending on how long it
takes for the heartbeat thread to stabilize. On a successful mount, the device list
in the ocfs2console shows the mount point along with the device.