Hello everybody,
I would like your opinion on the following question, why this happens in centos and how to fix this (or a possible work around).
I have a drive with no partitions and formatted with xfs filesystem. I give the drive a custom label "mydrive" and I mount it under /dev/mountpnts/mydrive. Then, I add a corresponding entry to fstab.
These, are the steps I followed,
mkfs.xfs -L mydrive -f /dev/sdf mkdir /dev/mountpnts/mydrive mount -L mydrive /dev/mountpnts/mydrive/
cat /etc/fstab, LABEL=mydrive /dev/mountpnts/mydrive xfs noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,logbufs=8 0 0
These steps mount the drive under the mount point specified.
If I remove the drive and insert it back in after a while, the drive doesn't mount, even though I have the required entry in fstab.
`mount -a` doesn't seem to work and provides me the following output,
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdj, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so
If I restart my server, the drive gets mounted in the correct mount point and works fine.
Can someone please shed some light on why a restart is required to re-mount a drive and if there is way to mount the drive without a restart.
Thanks,
Raghuv Adhepalli.