Am Not able to find /opt /var /tmp in lsblk RHEL 8.1.Can you please help me.
[xxx#exxx ~]$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 64G 0 disk
+-sda1 8:1 0 500M 0 part /boot/efi
+-sda2 8:2 0 500M 0 part /boot
+-sda3 8:3 0 2M 0 part
+-sda4 8:4 0 60G 0 part
+-rootvg-rootlv 253:5 0 60G 0 lvm /
lsblk
lsblk is used to display details about block devices and these block devices(Except ram disk) are basically those files that represent devices connected to the pc. It queries /sys virtual file system and udev db to obtain information that it displays. And it basically displays output in a tree-like structure. This command comes pre-installed with the util-Linux package.
That is the reason you are unable to saw the directories /opt, /var and /tmp
/opt is for “the installation of add-on application software packages”.
/var is a standard subdirectory of the root directory in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that contains files to which the system writes data during the course of its operation.
/tmp directory is a temporary landing place for files.
This is all done as the root user.
The script for backups at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump/LXC.pm sets a default mount point
my $default_mount_point = "/mnt/vzsnap0";
But regardless of whether I use the GUI or the command line I get the following error:
ERROR: Backup of VM 103 failed - mkdir /mnt/vzsnap0:
Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump/LXC.pm line 161.
And lines 160 - 161 in that script is:
my $rootdir = $default_mount_point;
mkpath $rootdir;
After the installation before I created any images or did any backups I setup two things.
(1) SSHFS mount for /mnt/backups
(2) Added all other drives as Linux LVM
What I did for the drive addition is as simple as:
pvcreate /dev/sdb1
pvcreate /dev/sdc1
pvcreate /dev/sdd1
pvcreate /dev/sde1
vgextend pve /dev/sdb1
vgextend pve /dev/sdc1
vgextend pve /dev/sdd1
vgextend pve /dev/sde1
lvextend pve/data /dev/sdb1
lvextend pve/data /dev/sdc1
lvextend pve/data /dev/sdd1
lvextend pve/data /dev/sde1
For the SSHFS instructions see my blog post on it: https://6ftdan.com/allyourdev/2018/02/04/proxmox-a-vm-server-for-your-home/
Here are filesystem directory permission related files and details.
cat /etc/fstab
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/pve/root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/pve/swap none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 9.0M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/pve-root 37G 8.0G 27G 24% /
tmpfs 7.9G 43M 7.8G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/fuse 30M 20K 30M 1% /etc/pve
sshfs#10.0.0.10:/mnt/raid/proxmox_backup 1.4T 725G 672G 52% /mnt/backups
tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/user/0
ls -dla /mnt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Aug 12 20:10 /mnt
ls /mnt
backups
ls -dla /mnt/backups
drwxr-xr-x 1 1001 1002 80 Aug 12 20:40 /mnt/backups
The command that I desire to succeed is:
vzdump 103 --compress lzo --node ProxMox --storage backup --remove 0 --mode snapshot
For the record the container image is only 8GB in size.
Cloning containers does work and snapshots work.
Q & A
Q) How are you running the perl script?
A) Through the GUI you click on Backup now, then select your storage (I have backups and local and the both produce this error), then select the state of the container (Snapshot, Suspend, Stop each produce the same error), then compression type (none, LZO, and gzip each produce the same error). Once all that is set you click Backup and get the following output.
INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 103 --node ProxMox --mode snapshot --compress lzo --storage backups --remove 0
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 103 (lxc)
INFO: Backup started at 2019-08-18 16:21:11
INFO: status = stopped
INFO: backup mode: stop
INFO: ionice priority: 7
INFO: CT Name: Passport
ERROR: Backup of VM 103 failed - mkdir /mnt/vzsnap0: Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump/LXC.pm line 161.
INFO: Failed at 2019-08-18 16:21:11
INFO: Backup job finished with errors
TASK ERROR: job errors
From this you can see that the command is vzdump 103 --node ProxMox --mode snapshot --compress lzo --storage backups --remove 0 . I've also tried logging in with a SSH shell and running this command and get the same error.
Q) It could be that the directory's "immutable" attribute is set. Try lsattr / and see if /mnt has the lower-case "i" attribute set to it.
A) root#ProxMox:~# lsattr /
--------------e---- /tmp
--------------e---- /opt
--------------e---- /boot
lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /sys
--------------e---- /lost+found
lsattr: Operation not supported While reading flags on /sbin
--------------e---- /media
--------------e---- /etc
--------------e---- /srv
--------------e---- /usr
lsattr: Operation not supported While reading flags on /libx32
lsattr: Operation not supported While reading flags on /bin
lsattr: Operation not supported While reading flags on /lib
lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /proc
--------------e---- /root
--------------e---- /var
--------------e---- /home
lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /dev
lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /mnt
lsattr: Operation not supported While reading flags on /lib32
lsattr: Operation not supported While reading flags on /lib64
lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on /run
Q) Can you manually created /mnt/vzsnap0 without any issues?
A) root#ProxMox:~# mkdir /mnt/vzsnap0
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/mnt/vzsnap0’: Permission denied
Q) Can you replicate it in a clean VM ?
A) I don't know. I don't have an extra system to try it on and I need the container's I have on it. Trying it within a VM in ProxMox… I'm not sure. I suppose I could try but I'd really rather not have to just yet. Maybe if all else fails.
Q) If you look at drwxr-xr-x 1 1001 1002 80 Aug 12 20:40 /mnt/backups, it looks like there are is a user with id 1001 which has access to the backups, so not even root will be able to write. You need to check why it is 1001 and which group is represented by 1002. Then you can add your root as well as the user under which the GUI runs to the group with id 1002.
A) I have no problem writing to the /mnt/backups directory. Just now did a cd /mnt/backups; mkdir test and that was successful.
From the message
mkdir /mnt/vzsnap0: Permission denied
it is obvious the problem is the permissions for /mnt directory.
It could be that the directory `s "immutable" attribute is set.
Try lsattr / and see if /mnt has the lower-case "i" attribute set to it.
As a reference:
The lower-case i in lsattr output indicates that the file or directory is set as immutable: even root must clear this attribute first before making any changes to it. With root access, you should be able to remove this with chattr -i /mnt, but there is probably a reason why this was done in the first place; you should find out what the reason was and whether or not it's still applicable before removing it. There may be security implications.
So, if this is the case, try:
chattr -i /mnt
to remove it.
References
lsattr output
According to inode flags—attributes manual page:
FS_IMMUTABLE_FL 'i':
The file is immutable: no changes are permitted to the file
contents or metadata (permissions, timestamps, ownership, link
count and so on). (This restriction applies even to the supe‐
ruser.) Only a privileged process (CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE) can
set or clear this attribute.
As long as the bounty is still up I'll give it to a legitimate answer that fixes the problem described here.
What I'm writing here for you all is a work around I've thought of which works. Note, it is very slow.
Since I am able to write to the /mnt/backups directory, which exists on another system on the network, I went ahead and changed the Perl script to point to /mnt/backups/vzsnap0 instead of /mnt/vzsnap0.
Bounty remains for anyone who can get the /mnt directory to work for the mount path to successfully mount vzsnap0 for the backup script..
1)
Perhaps your "/mnt/vzsnap0" is mounted as read only?
It may tell from your:
/dev/pve/root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
'errors=remount-ro' means in case of mistake remounting the partition like readonly. Perhaps this setting applies for your mounted filesystem as well.
Can you try remounting the drive as in the following link? https://askubuntu.com/questions/175739/how-do-i-remount-a-filesystem-as-read-write
And if that succeeds, manually create the directory afterwards?
2) If that didn't help:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-security-4/mkdir-throws-permission-denied-error-in-a-directoy-even-with-root-ownership-and-777-permission-4175424944/
There, someone remarked:
What is the filesystem for the partition that contains the directory.[?]
Double check the permissions of the directory, or whether it's a
symbolic link to another directory. If the directory is an NFS mount,
rootsquash can prevent writing by root.
Check for attributes (lsattr). Check for ACLs (getfacl). Check for
selinux restrictions. (ls -Z)
If the filesystem is corrupt, it might be initially mounted RW but
when you try to write to a bad area, change to RO.
Great, turns out this is a pretty long-standing issue with Ubuntu Make which is faced by many people.
I saw a workaround mentioned by an Ubuntu Developer in the above link.
Just follow the below steps:
sudo -s
unset SUDO_UID
unset SUDO_GID
Then run umake to install your application as normal.
you should now be able to install to any directory you want. Works flawlessly for me.
try ls laZ /mnt to review the security context, in case SE Linux is enabled. relabeling might be required then. errors=remount-ro should also be investigated (however, it is rather unlikely lsattr would fail, unless the /mnt inode itself is corrupted). Creating a new directory inode for these mount-points might be worth a try; if it works, one can swap them.
Just change /mnt/backups to /mnt/sshfs/backups
And the vzdump will work.
In Linux, . and .. have the same inode number only in 2 situations:
. and .. in the root of the root filesystem has the same inode number.
. and .. in the mount directory of a newly mounted filesystem on a directory of root filesystem has the same inode number.
But when I check the inode on CentOS7 I find a mounted directory has the same inode number with the root directory of the root filesystem.
Such as below, the /boot directory has the same inode number as /. In addition, other directories such as /sys/bus/memory/drivers and /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/function20 are also has the same inode with /.(inode number is 64).
[root#localhost boot]# mount
/dev/mapper/centos-root on / type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)
...
[root#localhost boot]# find / -inum 64
/
/boot
/sys/bus/memory/drivers
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/function20
the tree joint part
[root#localhost ~]# ls -ai /
64 . 64 .. 64 boot
If they have the same inode number, how does kernel find the correct content? or these directories should point to the same content (but different files under these directories)? or it only happens with LVM directories?
Does anyone know why this happened? Do I make a mistake or get something wrong here?
Please see the image below.
Notice that my /home directory is already 100% but I still got plenty of space on /dev/mapper/vg00-srv. Is there a way that I can use that space for my /home or rather increase the size of my /home directory. This is a Debian box.
Your response is greatly appreciated.
sudo su -
umount /srv
resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg00-srv 800G
lvresize -L 810G /dev/mapper/vg00-srv
lvresize -L +80G /dev/mapper/vg00-home
resize2fs /dev/mapper/vg00-home
mount /srv
Just edit this below line in your /var/fstab file.
UUID=685a1898-6c19-4327-a383-1f8b840a9a3c /home ext4 defaults
Change ext4 to your desired home folder partition.
In my embedded system I mound a uSD card in /mnt which is a folder residing on a NAND flash. A problem arises in the cases where uSD card fails to mount (missing or HW error).
Copying files to /mnt will in this case fill up the nand flash which has limited size.
My first idea was to just restrict the access to the /mnt folder so that when it fails to mount no write is allowed. As a test scenario I did (as root user)
mkdir /test
chmod 000 /test
d--------- 2 root root 160 Jan 3 10:58 test
/#
From a Ubuntu PC I then tries a to copy a file using scp
scp myFile root#192.168.1.100:/test
The idea was that as long as this directory had now acces rights this copy should be denied.
This is not the case, the file is myFile is copied to folder /test
Why is this so? My idea was as long as I revoked all access to this folder copying files would be rejected.
Where am I going wrong here?
root (or any user with uid 0 [zero] for that matter) is able to read and write to any file regardless of permission and ownership.
You might want to try out the immutable flag on that directory, though:
~# mkdir test
~# chmod 0000 test
~# touch test/foo # no error here
~# chattr +i test
~# touch test/foo2
touch: cannot touch 'test/foo2': Permission denied
Why does mnt reside on a nand flash ? You an also put it in a tmpfs file system, and limit the size of the tmpfs file system, using the size options
mkdir /media
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs -o size=4M /media
mkdir /media/mmc
Mount whatever you want in /media/mmc