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Mount failures

Mounting a file system can fail for the following reasons:

vxfs mount: cannot open mnttab

/etc/mnttab is missing or you do not have root privileges.

vxfs mount: device already mounted, ...

The device is in use by mount, mkfs or fsck on the same node. This error cannot be generated from another node in the cluster.

mount: slow

The node may be in the process of joining the cluster.

# mount -F vxfs /dev/vx/dsk/share/vol01 /vol01

The following error message displays:

vxfs mount: /dev/vx/dsk/share/vol01 is already mounted,

/vol01 is busy, allowable number of mount points exceeded,

or cluster reservation failed for the volume