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what is lvol8 directory
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jollyroger
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Hello there
Nobody will be able to answer this question. You ask what lvol8 is? Well it generally covers notation form for Logical Volumes. This is the 8th Logical Volume within a Volume Group. A Volume Group is a or a collection of Disks.
What is it, we we don't know, it then is mounted on top of a directory path, e.g. /opt/oracle. You need to look in your /etc/fstab for more information.
Once you have found out what directory this Logical Volume is mounted on we will then be able to tell you weather it is important or not.
I guess as your machine is working it cannot be that important, but are your applications?
Best regards
Ben
Nobody will be able to answer this question. You ask what lvol8 is? Well it generally covers notation form for Logical Volumes. This is the 8th Logical Volume within a Volume Group. A Volume Group is a or a collection of Disks.
What is it, we we don't know, it then is mounted on top of a directory path, e.g. /opt/oracle. You need to look in your /etc/fstab for more information.
Once you have found out what directory this Logical Volume is mounted on we will then be able to tell you weather it is important or not.
I guess as your machine is working it cannot be that important, but are your applications?
Best regards
Ben
vhgupta1,
Take a look at your /etc/fstab and /etc/mnttab. If you have a listing for lvol8 in /etc/fstab but not in /etc/mnttab, type mount /<filesystem name from fstab>. Then cd into the mount point and see if you see data. It could be that for some reason the logical volume is not set to mount at boot.
To set it to mount at boot, I would recommend using sam, if you are new to HPUX. It could be just a matter of adding the correct line to mnttab to get it to mount at boot.
If it is /var that is the mount point to that logical volume, yes, it is an important directory. If you don't have it mounted, you could be writing your /var files to the /var directory in /, rather than the filesystem /var. If that is the case, you run the risk of filling up /, and also run the risk that perhaps ownership and permissions on subdirectories of the filesystem /var are not correct.
Take a look at your /etc/fstab and /etc/mnttab. If you have a listing for lvol8 in /etc/fstab but not in /etc/mnttab, type mount /<filesystem name from fstab>. Then cd into the mount point and see if you see data. It could be that for some reason the logical volume is not set to mount at boot.
To set it to mount at boot, I would recommend using sam, if you are new to HPUX. It could be just a matter of adding the correct line to mnttab to get it to mount at boot.
If it is /var that is the mount point to that logical volume, yes, it is an important directory. If you don't have it mounted, you could be writing your /var files to the /var directory in /, rather than the filesystem /var. If that is the case, you run the risk of filling up /, and also run the risk that perhaps ownership and permissions on subdirectories of the filesystem /var are not correct.
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