I work on an Amazon EC2 instance that somebody else set up. We have an EBS volume mounted on /dev/sda, even though the root device is already on /dev/sda1, and we're also using /dev/sda2
user@server:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
... (snip)
/dev/sda2 on /mnt type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda on /vol type xfs (rw,noatime)
...
This doesn't seem to fit with what I know about the way /dev/ works. How is this possible, and more importantly: will this cause trouble in the future?
I'm running ubuntu 9.04 jaunty.
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Amazon EBS volumes are connected to a running instance using the ec2-attach-volume command (that's the best article I could find). It is recommeneded to use an unused device name for connecting the volume, but I guess in this case they just used /dev/sda and it worked.
fdisk seems to be confused by the current configuration:
user@server:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table user@server:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda1 Disk /dev/sda1: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/sda1 doesn't contain a valid partition table user@server:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda2 Disk /dev/sda2: 365.0 GB, 365041287168 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 44380 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/sda2 doesn't contain a valid partition table user@server:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 9.9G 943M 8.5G 10% / tmpfs 874M 0 874M 0% /lib/init/rw varrun 874M 48K 874M 1% /var/run varlock 874M 0 874M 0% /var/lock udev 874M 80K 874M 1% /dev tmpfs 874M 0 874M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 335G 45G 273G 15% /mnt /dev/sda 10G 7.0G 3.1G 70% /vol
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Here's the output of the diagnostic commands you guys asked for:
user@server:~$ ls -l /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2010-01-27 21:48 /dev/sda
user@server:~$ ls -l /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2010-01-22 23:23 /dev/sda1
user@server:~$ ls -l /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2010-01-22 23:22 /dev/sda2
user@server:~$
user@server:~$
user@server:~$ cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda /vol xfs rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/sda /home/user xfs rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/sda /etc/mysql xfs rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/sda /var/lib/mysql xfs rw,noatime 0 0
/dev/sda /var/log/mysql xfs rw,noatime 0 0
user@server:~$
user@server:~$
user@server:~$ find /sys/block
/sys/block
/sys/block/sda
/sys/block/sda/queue
/sys/block/sda/queue/iosched
/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
/sys/block/sda/queue/max_sectors_kb
/sys/block/sda/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb
/sys/block/sda/queue/read_ahead_kb
/sys/block/sda/queue/nr_requests
/sys/block/sda/slaves
/sys/block/sda/holders
/sys/block/sda/subsystem
/sys/block/sda/device
/sys/block/sda/stat
/sys/block/sda/size
/sys/block/sda/removable
/sys/block/sda/range
/sys/block/sda/dev
/sys/block/sda/uevent
/sys/block/sda3
/sys/block/sda3/queue
/sys/block/sda3/queue/iosched
/sys/block/sda3/queue/scheduler
/sys/block/sda3/queue/max_sectors_kb
/sys/block/sda3/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb
/sys/block/sda3/queue/read_ahead_kb
/sys/block/sda3/queue/nr_requests
/sys/block/sda3/slaves
/sys/block/sda3/holders
/sys/block/sda3/subsystem
/sys/block/sda3/device
/sys/block/sda3/stat
/sys/block/sda3/size
/sys/block/sda3/removable
/sys/block/sda3/range
/sys/block/sda3/dev
/sys/block/sda3/uevent
/sys/block/sda2
/sys/block/sda2/queue
/sys/block/sda2/queue/iosched
/sys/block/sda2/queue/scheduler
/sys/block/sda2/queue/max_sectors_kb
/sys/block/sda2/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb
/sys/block/sda2/queue/read_ahead_kb
/sys/block/sda2/queue/nr_requests
/sys/block/sda2/slaves
/sys/block/sda2/holders
/sys/block/sda2/subsystem
/sys/block/sda2/device
/sys/block/sda2/stat
/sys/block/sda2/size
/sys/block/sda2/removable
/sys/block/sda2/range
/sys/block/sda2/dev
/sys/block/sda2/uevent
/sys/block/sda1
/sys/block/sda1/queue
/sys/block/sda1/queue/iosched
/sys/block/sda1/queue/scheduler
/sys/block/sda1/queue/max_sectors_kb
/sys/block/sda1/queue/max_hw_sectors_kb
/sys/block/sda1/queue/read_ahead_kb
/sys/block/sda1/queue/nr_requests
/sys/block/sda1/slaves
/sys/block/sda1/holders
/sys/block/sda1/subsystem
/sys/block/sda1/device
/sys/block/sda1/stat
/sys/block/sda1/size
/sys/block/sda1/removable
/sys/block/sda1/range
/sys/block/sda1/dev
/sys/block/sda1/uevent
/sys/block/ram15
/sys/block/ram15/slaves
/sys/block/ram15/holders
/sys/block/ram15/subsystem
/sys/block/ram15/stat
/sys/block/ram15/size
/sys/block/ram15/removable
/sys/block/ram15/range
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram15/uevent
/sys/block/ram14
/sys/block/ram14/slaves
/sys/block/ram14/holders
/sys/block/ram14/subsystem
/sys/block/ram14/stat
/sys/block/ram14/size
/sys/block/ram14/removable
/sys/block/ram14/range
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram14/uevent
/sys/block/ram13
/sys/block/ram13/slaves
/sys/block/ram13/holders
/sys/block/ram13/subsystem
/sys/block/ram13/stat
/sys/block/ram13/size
/sys/block/ram13/removable
/sys/block/ram13/range
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram13/uevent
/sys/block/ram12
/sys/block/ram12/slaves
/sys/block/ram12/holders
/sys/block/ram12/subsystem
/sys/block/ram12/stat
/sys/block/ram12/size
/sys/block/ram12/removable
/sys/block/ram12/range
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram12/uevent
/sys/block/ram11
/sys/block/ram11/slaves
/sys/block/ram11/holders
/sys/block/ram11/subsystem
/sys/block/ram11/stat
/sys/block/ram11/size
/sys/block/ram11/removable
/sys/block/ram11/range
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram11/uevent
/sys/block/ram10
/sys/block/ram10/slaves
/sys/block/ram10/holders
/sys/block/ram10/subsystem
/sys/block/ram10/stat
/sys/block/ram10/size
/sys/block/ram10/removable
/sys/block/ram10/range
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram10/uevent
/sys/block/ram9
/sys/block/ram9/slaves
/sys/block/ram9/holders
/sys/block/ram9/subsystem
/sys/block/ram9/stat
/sys/block/ram9/size
/sys/block/ram9/removable
/sys/block/ram9/range
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/block/ram9/uevent
/sys/block/ram8
/sys/block/ram8/slaves
/sys/block/ram8/holders
/sys/block/ram8/subsystem
/sys/block/ram8/stat
/sys/block/ram8/size
/sys/block/ram8/removable
/sys/block/ram8/range
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram8/uevent
/sys/block/ram7
/sys/block/ram7/slaves
/sys/block/ram7/holders
/sys/block/ram7/subsystem
/sys/block/ram7/stat
/sys/block/ram7/size
/sys/block/ram7/removable
/sys/block/ram7/range
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram7/uevent
/sys/block/ram6
/sys/block/ram6/slaves
/sys/block/ram6/holders
/sys/block/ram6/subsystem
/sys/block/ram6/stat
/sys/block/ram6/size
/sys/block/ram6/removable
/sys/block/ram6/range
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram6/uevent
/sys/block/ram5
/sys/block/ram5/slaves
/sys/block/ram5/holders
/sys/block/ram5/subsystem
/sys/block/ram5/stat
/sys/block/ram5/size
/sys/block/ram5/removable
/sys/block/ram5/range
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram5/uevent
/sys/block/ram4
/sys/block/ram4/slaves
/sys/block/ram4/holders
/sys/block/ram4/subsystem
/sys/block/ram4/stat
/sys/block/ram4/size
/sys/block/ram4/removable
/sys/block/ram4/range
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram4/uevent
/sys/block/ram3
/sys/block/ram3/slaves
/sys/block/ram3/holders
/sys/block/ram3/subsystem
/sys/block/ram3/stat
/sys/block/ram3/size
/sys/block/ram3/removable
/sys/block/ram3/range
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram3/uevent
/sys/block/ram2
/sys/block/ram2/slaves
/sys/block/ram2/holders
/sys/block/ram2/subsystem
/sys/block/ram2/stat
/sys/block/ram2/size
/sys/block/ram2/removable
/sys/block/ram2/range
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram2/uevent
/sys/block/ram1
/sys/block/ram1/slaves
/sys/block/ram1/holders
/sys/block/ram1/subsystem
/sys/block/ram1/stat
/sys/block/ram1/size
/sys/block/ram1/removable
/sys/block/ram1/range
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram1/uevent
/sys/block/ram0
/sys/block/ram0/slaves
/sys/block/ram0/holders
/sys/block/ram0/subsystem
/sys/block/ram0/stat
/sys/block/ram0/size
/sys/block/ram0/removable
/sys/block/ram0/range
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram0/uevent
user@server:~$
user@server:~$
user@server:~$ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen-ec2-v1.0 (root@domU-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) #2 SMP Tue Sep 1 10:04:29 EDT 2009
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
sanitize start
sanitize bail 0
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000006d400000 end: 000000006d400000 type: 1
Xen: 0000000000000000 - 000000006d400000 (usable)
1020MB HIGHMEM available.
727MB LOWMEM available.
NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 447488) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 186366
Normal 186366 -> 186366
HighMem 186366 -> 447488
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 447488
On node 0 totalpages: 447488
DMA zone: 1455 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 184911 pages, LIFO batch:31
Normal zone: 0 pages used for memmap
HighMem zone: 2040 pages used for memmap
HighMem zone: 259082 pages, LIFO batch:31
ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
Detected 2327.541 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 443993
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro 4
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c136c000 soft=c134c000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Xen reported: 2327.496 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
vmalloc area: ee000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000
Memory: 1751808k/1789952k available (2071k kernel code, 28924k reserved, 1080k data, 188k init, 1044488k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xf5315000 - 0xf57fe000 (5028 kB)
pkmap : 0xf5000000 - 0xf5200000 (2048 kB)
vmalloc : 0xee000000 - 0xf4ffe000 ( 111 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xed7fe000 ( 727 MB)
.init : 0xc1319000 - 0xc1348000 ( 188 kB)
.data : 0xc1205e96 - 0xc1313fd4 (1080 kB)
.text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc1205e96 (2071 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5820.83 BogoMIPS (lpj=11641676)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebc3f1 20100000 00000000 00000000 040ce3bd 00000000 00000001
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 6144K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebc3f1 20100000 00000000 00003940 040ce3bd 00000000 00000001
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
CPU 1 irqstacks, hard=c136d000 soft=c134d000
Brought up 1 CPUs
sizeof(vma)=88 bytes
sizeof(page)=32 bytes
sizeof(inode)=336 bytes
sizeof(dentry)=132 bytes
sizeof(ext3inode)=488 bytes
sizeof(buffer_head)=56 bytes
sizeof(skbuff)=176 bytes
sizeof(task_struct)=1376 bytes
NET: Registered protocol family 16
SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
Initializing CPU#1
migration_cost=23211
Brought up 2 CPUs
PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: System does not support PCI
PCI: System does not support PCI
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1572864 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 6669k freed
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1264202578.633:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Event-channel device installed.
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: No controller found.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP bic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2049
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2050
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2051
drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 795k
mbcache: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
xen-vbd: registered block device major 8
netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
netfront: device eth0 has flipping receive path.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Adding 917496k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:917496k
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Mobile IPv6
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
sda: unknown partition table
Filesystem "sda": Disabling barriers, not supported by the underlying device
XFS mounting filesystem sda
Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sda
sdo: unknown partition table
user@server:~$
user@server:~$
user@server:~$
user@server:~$
user@server:~$ hal-find-by-property --key block.device --string /dev/sda |xargs -i lshal -u "{}"
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_ef9f98e8_3b09_41a2_9962_73fbe0a675aa'
block.device = '/dev/sda' (string)
block.is_volume = true (bool)
block.major = 8 (0x8) (int)
block.minor = 0 (0x0) (int)
block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage_unknown_disk_0' (string)
info.capabilities = {'volume', 'block'} (string list)
info.category = 'volume' (string)
info.interfaces = {'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume'} (string list)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage_unknown_disk_0' (string)
info.product = 'Volume (xfs)' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_ef9f98e8_3b09_41a2_9962_73fbe0a675aa' (string)
linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3) (int)
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sda/fakevolume' (string)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames = {'mount_point fstype extra_options', 'extra_options', 'extra_options'} (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths = {'hal-storage-mount', 'hal-storage-unmount', 'hal-storage-eject'} (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names = {'Mount', 'Unmount', 'Eject'} (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures = {'ssas', 'as', 'as'} (string list)
volume.block_size = 512 (0x200) (int)
volume.fstype = 'xfs' (string)
volume.fsusage = 'filesystem' (string)
volume.fsversion = '' (string)
volume.ignore = false (bool)
volume.is_disc = false (bool)
volume.is_mounted = true (bool)
volume.is_mounted_read_only = false (bool)
volume.is_partition = false (bool)
volume.label = '' (string)
volume.linux.is_device_mapper = false (bool)
volume.mount.valid_options = {'ro', 'sync', 'dirsync', 'noatime', 'nodiratime', 'noexec', 'quiet', 'remount', 'exec'} (string list)
volume.mount_point = '/vol' (string)
volume.num_blocks = 20971520 (0x1400000) (uint64)
volume.size = 10737418240 (0x280000000) (uint64)
volume.unmount.valid_options = {'lazy'} (string list)
volume.uuid = 'ef9f98e8-3b09-41a2-9962-73fbe0a675aa' (string)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage_unknown_disk_0'
block.device = '/dev/sda' (string)
block.is_volume = false (bool)
block.major = 8 (0x8) (int)
block.minor = 0 (0x0) (int)
block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage_unknown_disk_0' (string)
info.capabilities = {'storage', 'block'} (string list)
info.category = 'storage' (string)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/xen_vbd_2048' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage_unknown_disk_0' (string)
linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3) (int)
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sda' (string)
storage.automount_enabled_hint = false (bool)
storage.bus = 'unknown' (string)
storage.drive_type = 'disk' (string)
storage.hotpluggable = false (bool)
storage.media_check_enabled = false (bool)
storage.model = '' (string)
storage.no_partitions_hint = false (bool)
storage.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
storage.partitioning_scheme = 'none' (string)
storage.removable = false (bool)
storage.removable.media_available = true (bool)
storage.removable.media_size = 10737418240 (0x280000000) (uint64)
storage.requires_eject = false (bool)
storage.size = 10737418240 (0x280000000) (uint64)
storage.vendor = '' (string)
user@server:~$ hal-find-by-property --key block.device --string /dev/sda1 |xargs -i lshal -u "{}"
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_6e90162e_9c7a_4609_9e10_a2686db2aff0'
block.device = '/dev/sda1' (string)
block.is_volume = true (bool)
block.major = 8 (0x8) (int)
block.minor = 1 (0x1) (int)
block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage_unknown_disk_1' (string)
info.capabilities = {'volume', 'block'} (string list)
info.category = 'volume' (string)
info.interfaces = {'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume'} (string list)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage_unknown_disk_1' (string)
info.product = 'Volume (ext3)' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_6e90162e_9c7a_4609_9e10_a2686db2aff0' (string)
linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3) (int)
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sda1/fakevolume' (string)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames = {'mount_point fstype extra_options', 'extra_options', 'extra_options'} (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths = {'hal-storage-mount', 'hal-storage-unmount', 'hal-storage-eject'} (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names = {'Mount', 'Unmount', 'Eject'} (string list)
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures = {'ssas', 'as', 'as'} (string list)
volume.block_size = 512 (0x200) (int)
volume.fstype = 'ext3' (string)
volume.fsusage = 'filesystem' (string)
volume.fsversion = '1.0' (string)
volume.ignore = false (bool)
volume.is_disc = false (bool)
volume.is_mounted = true (bool)
volume.is_mounted_read_only = false (bool)
volume.is_partition = false (bool)
volume.label = '' (string)
volume.linux.is_device_mapper = false (bool)
volume.mount.valid_options = {'ro', 'sync', 'dirsync', 'noatime', 'nodiratime', 'noexec', 'quiet', 'remount', 'exec', 'acl', 'user_xattr', 'data='} (string list)
volume.mount_point = '/' (string)
volume.num_blocks = 20971520 (0x1400000) (uint64)
volume.size = 10737418240 (0x280000000) (uint64)
volume.unmount.valid_options = {'lazy'} (string list)
volume.uuid = '6e90162e-9c7a-4609-9e10-a2686db2aff0' (string)
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage_unknown_disk_1'
block.device = '/dev/sda1' (string)
block.is_volume = false (bool)
block.major = 8 (0x8) (int)
block.minor = 1 (0x1) (int)
block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage_unknown_disk_1' (string)
info.capabilities = {'storage', 'block'} (string list)
info.category = 'storage' (string)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/xen_vbd_2049' (string)
info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_storage_unknown_disk_1' (string)
linux.hotplug_type = 3 (0x3) (int)
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sda1' (string)
storage.automount_enabled_hint = false (bool)
storage.bus = 'unknown' (string)
storage.drive_type = 'disk' (string)
storage.hotpluggable = false (bool)
storage.media_check_enabled = false (bool)
storage.model = '' (string)
storage.no_partitions_hint = false (bool)
storage.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' (string)
storage.partitioning_scheme = 'none' (string)
storage.removable = false (bool)
storage.removable.media_available = true (bool)
storage.removable.media_size = 10737418240 (0x280000000) (uint64)
storage.requires_eject = false (bool)
storage.size = 10737418240 (0x280000000) (uint64)
storage.vendor = '' (string)
I really appreciate all the help, but I have this feeling that the more info I add, the less likely this question will ever be useful to someone else.
That is technically possible, for example by moving or renaming mount stuff in the dev tree, but it looks pretty weird. Can you do a
and post the output?
Mounting the whole disk (/dev/sda) is, as you hint in the question, not something that is typically done.
What does
and
print?
It looks like the EBS volume was added later as sda. So, sda{1,2} points to the virtual disk that the instance was booted from and sda points to the EBS volume. This might cause problems with programs that assume sda{1,2} to be partitions of sda.