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I have a scenario where I am trying to mount SAN storage to my linux machine. My environment details are-

  1. Oracle VM manager for VM creation
  2. Fiber Channel HP3PAR SAN storage attached as physical disk to my VM
  3. Oracle Linux version -OEL 7.4

Below steps I have been doing as earlier worked smoothly but not now-

  1. Login as root user on VM Running

  2. fdisk utility to check attached disks

    fdisk -l

    It shows 2 disks /dev/xvdb & /dev/xvdc where /dev/xvdc appeared after attaching the SAN storage to VM.

  3. Applying mount command to mount /dec/xvdc on location /u01/oracle/config where /u01/oracle/config is empty

    mount /dev/xvdc /u01/oracle/config

  4. After this the command screen cursor just blinks and nothing happens. Further I have checked whether the mount was successful, no it is not. Running the command 'df -h' and 'mount' doesn't shows the storage was mounted to requested location.

Storage attached but not able to mount

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  • Syslog is where you should look at for error messages (like I/O timeouts). Also it looks as if you are running in a Xen Paravirtualized machine using disks imported from the Xen host (/dev/xvd*). If so, you should look at the Xen host... Anyway you should describe your scenario better.
    – U. Windl
    Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 11:24
  • mount also has a --verbose option that may be helpful.
    – Haxiel
    Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 17:15

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Problem solved. The issue was associated with disk log corruption. So I tried to repair the disk using below steps-

xfs_repair /dev/xvdc

a warning indicated as specified below

Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...

Phase 2 - using internal log

    - zero log...

ERROR: The filesystem has valuable metadata changes in a log which needs to be replayed. Mount the filesystem to replay the log, and unmount it before re-running xfs_repair. If you are unable to mount the filesystem, then use the -L option to destroy the log and attempt a repair. Note that destroying the log may cause corruption -- please attempt a mount of the filesystem before doing this.

So further, I proceeded with below steps-

xfs_repair -L /dev/xvdc 

mount -t xfs /dev/xvdc /u01/oracle

This successfully mount disk /dev/xvdc to location /u01/oracle.

NOTE : I have formatted the disk using XFS file system earlier.

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