VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Chapter 2, Setting Up Databases

Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:54am Mounting a File System

Mounting a File System

After creating a VxFS file system, mount the file system using the mount command. By default,

the mount command tries to enable Quick I/O. If Quick I/O is not installed or licensed, no error

messages are displayed unless you explicitly specify the -o qio mount option. If necessary, you

can turn the Quick I/O option off at mount time or you can remount the file system with the -o

noqio option.

Prerequisites

◆ A file system must exist in order to be mounted.

◆ DBAs should log in as the Oracle DBA user.

Usage Notes

◆ See the mount_vxfs(1M) manual page for more information about mount settings.

◆ See the mount(1M) manual page for more information about generic mount options.

◆ If you use the GUI, the file system table file is automatically updated.

◆ The mount point must be an absolute path name (that is, it must begin with /).

◆ If you use the GUI, the path specified for the mount point will be created if it does not already

exist.

▼ To mount a file system using the command line

Use the mount command as follows:

# /usr/sbin/mount -F vxfs [generic_options] [-r] \

[-o specific_options] special /mount_point

where:

◆ generic_options are the options common to most file systems

◆ -r mounts the file system as read only

◆ specific_options are options specific to the VxFS file system

◆ special is a block special device

◆ /mount_point is the directory where the file system will be mounted