On 5/4/2016 12:41 AM, Patrick Begou wrote: > > Any messages in /var/log/boot.log ? indeed, it appears it tries to mount local file systems BEFORE drbd is started. because /data isn't mounted, backuppc can't start either. so do I have to edit the chkconfig priorities in /etc/init.d and recreate the rc3.d S** and K** scripts so drbd starts earlier? ugh. # cat ore /var/log/boot.log Welcome to CentOS Starting udev: [ OK ] Setting hostname hostname.mydomain.com: [ OK ] Setting up Logical Volume Management: 5 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_sysdata" now active 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_sys" now active [ OK ] Checking filesystems /dev/mapper/vg_sys-lv_root: clean, 60004/3276800 files, 4432672/13107200 blocks /dev/sdb1: clean, 66/128016 files, 198283/512000 blocks /dev/mapper/vg_sys-lv_home: clean, 593694/129236992 files, 235674982/516925440 blocks [ OK ] Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [ OK ] Mounting local filesystems: mount: special device /dev/drbd0 does not exist [FAILED] Enabling local filesystem quotas: [ OK ] Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [ OK ] Entering non-interactive startup Calling the system activity data collector (sadc)... Starting monitoring for VG vg_sys: 3 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_sys" monitored [ OK ] Starting monitoring for VG vg_sysdata: 5 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_sysdata" monitored [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0: Determining IP information for eth0... done. [ OK ] Starting auditd: [ OK ] Starting system logger: [ OK ] Enabling ondemand cpu frequency scaling: [ OK ] Starting irqbalance: [ OK ] Starting rpcbind: [ OK ] Starting NFS statd: [ OK ] Starting system message bus: [ OK ] Starting Avahi daemon... [ OK ] NFS filesystems queued to be mounted Mounting filesystems: mount: special device /dev/drbd0 does not exist [FAILED] Starting acpi daemon: [ OK ] Starting HAL daemon: [ OK ] Starting lm_sensors: loading module ipmi-si adm1021 coretem[ OK ]0 Retrigger failed udev events [ OK ] Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64kdump.img Warning: There might not be enough space to save a vmcore. The size of UUID=2288bad6-ceb0-4984-bf3d-c57666603495 should be greater than 49416020 kilo bytes. Starting DRBD resources: [ d(main) s(main) n(main) ]. Starting BackupPC: 2016-05-03 09:57:14 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /var/lib/BackupPC//pc and /var/lib/BackupPC//cpool. Either these are different file system s, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't exist, or there is a permissions problem, or the file system is out of inodes or full. Use df, df - i, and ls -ld to check each of these possibilities. Quitting...