Mounting A File System - Red Hat GLOBAL FILE SYSTEM 5.2 Manual

Flag Parameter
-t LockTableName
-V
Table 3.1. Command Options:

2. Mounting a File System

Before you can mount a GFS file system, the file system must exist (refer to
"Creating a File System"), the volume where the file system exists must be activated, and the
supporting clustering and locking systems must be started (refer to
and Configuring and Managing a Red Hat Cluster. After those requirements have been met, you
can mount the GFS file system as you would any Linux file system.
To manipulate file ACLs, you must mount the file system with the
system is mounted without the
), but are not allowed to set them (with
getfacl
Usage
Mounting Without ACL Manipulation
mount BlockDevice MountPoint
Mounting With ACL Manipulation
mount -o acl BlockDevice MountPoint
Description
Used in a clustered file system. This parameter has
two parts separated by a colon (no spaces) as
follows:
ClusterName:FSName
ClusterName
which the GFS file system is being created. The
cluster name is set in the
/etc/cluster/cluster.conf
Configuration Tool and displayed at the Cluster
Status Tool in the Red Hat Cluster Suite cluster
management GUI.
, the file system name, can be 1 to 16
FSName
characters in length, and the name must be unique
among all file systems in the cluster.
Displays command version information.
gfs_mkfs
mount option, users are allowed to view ACLs (with
-o acl
setfacl
Mounting a File System
.
is the name of the Red Hat cluster for
file via the Cluster
Section 1,
Chapter 2, Getting Started
mount option. If a file
-o acl
).
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