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Asked: 2017-01-25 14:33:59 +0800 CST

How can I determine if an iscsi device is a mounted Linux filesystem?

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EDIT: This is on a Debian 7 sytstem (more accurately Proxmox hypervisor https://www.proxmox.com/en/) 2.6.32-48-pve kernel.

I have a disk partition as an iscsi target on my backend infiniband storage. I've mounted the target locally on the initiator (on /mnt/iscsi). If I need to reboot the initiator, I need to unmount /mnt/iscsi and then logout of the portal prior to rebooting (at least it was this way a couple years ago. been a while since I've worked with iscsi).

How can I determine which filesystems are mounted over iscsi? The regular mount command just displays the block device which was created by the initiator eg: /dev/sdc.

/dev/sdc on /mnt/iscsi type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)

I'd like to automate the unmount/logout prior to a reboot but this information is not enough to determine if the filesystem in question needs to be run through iscsiadm ... --logout after unmounting.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try iscsiadm -m session -P 3 and check the last section "Attached SCSI devices"

    Just FYI: If you set iscsid to start on boot you do not need to unmount/logout iSCSI partitions prior to reboot. As long as the partition is in /etc/fstab and has a _netdev option.

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  2. Try this command:

    iscsiadm -m session -P 3 | grep 'Target\|disk'

    The iscsiadm utility is a command-line tool allowing discovery and login to iSCSI targets, as well as access and management of the open-iscsi database.

    -m, --mode op specifies the mode. op must be one of discoverydb, node, fw, host iface or session. This command will list the sessions targets (and grep within the result).

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