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error mounting /home/partimag

amtech
2012-03-28
2013-04-05
  • amtech

    amtech - 2012-03-28

    Hi,
    I have searched the forum and don't see this problem mentioned. I'm not sure if you're aware if this but, if it is mentioned somewhere, please forgive my ignorance and disregard.

    I am able to use ssh to save and restore images up to version 1.2.11-23-i686-pae
    Works great with no problems at home and other places.

    There is a problem using ssh with the latest versions
    1.2.12-10-i686-pae
    1.2.12-37-i686-pae

    When I get to the point were it asks for a password, I get this error message:
    Clonezilla image home directory /home/partimag is not a mounting point!
    Failed to mount other devices as /home/partimag!

    When I run ls -al, it puts out garbage…
    d?????????  ??  ?  ? partimage

    When I run ls -al on version 1.2.11-23-i686-pae it puts out normally…
    drwxr-xr-x  2  root root 40 Mar28 18:25 partimag

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2012-04-05

    Could you please take a photo about the screen "Clonezilla image home directory /home/partimag is not a mounting point! Failed to mount other devices as /home/partimag!"?
    If so, please post it.
    It would be easier for us to understand.
    Thanks.

    Steven.

     
  • amtech

    amtech - 2012-04-05

    I don't have a camera but, I used script to capture the output. Here is the tail results of the typescript file.

    DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
    DHCPOFFER from 10.0.1.125
    DHCPACK from 10.0.1.125
    bound to 10.0.4.7 - renewal in 71665 seconds.
    OK. Now writing the setting to network config file… Done!
    Preparing the mount point /home/partimag…
    Mounting remote directory on ssh server as /home/partimag…

    Mounting sshfs by:
    sshfs -o nonempty,noatime -p 22 "root"@10.0.1.253:"/home/partimag" /home/partimag
    The authenticity of host '10.0.1.253 (10.0.1.253)' can't be established.
    RSA key fingerprint is a9:39:a9:8e:36:78:3f:18:75:8d:e1:b2:e3:ce:de:4c.
    Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
    root@10.0.1.253's password:
    Clonezilla image home directory /home/partimag is not a mounting point! Failed to mount other device as /home/partimag!
    Are you sure you want to continue? ?
    n
    Program terminated!!
    Unable to mount resource as /home/partimag.
    Are you sure you want to continue?
     n
    Program terminated!
    root@debian:~# ls -al /home/
    ls: cannot access /home/partimag: Input/output error
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  80 Apr  5 08:15 .
    drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 240 Apr  5 08:14 ..
    d?????????  ? ?    ?      ?            ? partimag
    drwxr-xr-x  3 user user 160 Apr  5 08:15 user
    root@debian:~# exit

    Script done on Thu 05 Apr 2012 08:16:33 AM UTC

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2012-04-11

    I am not sure if this is permission issue.
    Are you are you are able to access "root"@10.0.1.253:"/home/partimag"?
    The path /home/partimag/ does exist on the machine 10.0.1.253?

    Steven.

     
  • amtech

    amtech - 2012-04-11

    Thanks for the reply.
    This wouldn't seem to be an issue with the servers ( two of them at different locations ) as they both work nicely with version 1.2.11-23

    The process does work when I start it from the command prompt without trying the GUI first.
    Here is a snip of that…

    user@debian:~$ sudo su -
    root@debian:~# dhclient -v eth0
    Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2
    Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.
    All rights reserved.
    For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

    Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:fe:48:b6:09
    Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:0f:fe:48:b6:09
    Sending on   Socket/fallback
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
    DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
    DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1
    DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
    bound to 192.168.0.13 - renewal in 33948 seconds.
    root@debian:~# sshfs root@192.168.0.15:/mnt/win /home/partimag/
    The authenticity of host '192.168.0.15 (192.168.0.15)' can't be established.
    RSA key fingerprint is 40:bc:2b:96:da:52:d9:59:1f:00:74:f1:05:f4:f5:f1.
    Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
    root@192.168.0.15's password:
    root@debian:~# ls -al /home/
    total 4
    drwxr-xr-x  4 root root   80 Apr 11 18:08 .
    drwxr-xr-x 28 root root  220 Apr 11 18:08 ..
    drwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4096 Sep  5  2010 partimag
    drwxr-xr-x  3 user user  180 Apr 11 18:08 user
    root@debian:~# logout
    user@debian:~$ xit

    and here is a snip of the same machine failing when using the GUI ….

    root@debian:~# ocs-live
    ocsroot device is ssh_server
    Network is already configured! Available IP address on this machine: 192.168.0.13
    Preparing the mount point /home/partimag…
    Mounting remote directory on ssh server as /home/partimag…
    SSH server is: 192.168.0.15
    SSH port on server is: 22
    SSH account in 192.168.0.15 is: root
    sshfs dir in /home/partimag is: /home/partimag
    Mounting sshfs by:
    sshfs -o nonempty,noatime -p 22 "root"@192.168.0.15:"/home/partimag" /home/partimag
    The authenticity of host '192.168.0.15 (192.168.0.15)' can't be established.
    RSA key fingerprint is 40:bc:2b:96:da:52:d9:59:1f:00:74:f1:05:f4:f5:f1.
    Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
    root@192.168.0.15's password:
    Clonezilla image home directory /home/partimag is not a mounting point! Failed to mount other device as /home/partimag!
    Are you sure you want to continue? ?
    n
    Program terminated!!
    Unable to mount resource as /home/partimag.
    Are you sure you want to continue?
    n
    Program terminated!
    root@debian:~# ls -al /home/
    ls: cannot access /home/partimag: Input/output error
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  80 Apr 11 18:01 .
    drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 220 Apr 11 18:01 ..
    d?????????  ? ?    ?      ?            ? partimag
    drwxr-xr-x  3 user user 160 Apr 11 18:01 user
    root@debian:~# sshfs root@192.168.0.15:/mnt/win /home/partimag
    fuse: bad mount point `/home/partimag': Input/output error
    root@debian:~# xit

     
  • amtech

    amtech - 2012-04-11

    Scratch that part about it working from the command prompt.
    I just realized that I had a typo there and didn't try to mount /home/partimag.

    Here's the output from the command prompt…

    user@debian:~$ sudo su -
    root@debian:~# dhclient -v eth0
    Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2
    Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.
    All rights reserved.
    For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

    Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:fe:48:b6:09
    Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:0f:fe:48:b6:09
    Sending on   Socket/fallback
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
    DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
    DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
    DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1
    DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
    bound to 192.168.0.13 - renewal in 39352 seconds.
    root@debian:~# sshfs root@192.168.0.15:/home/partimag /home/partimag
    The authenticity of host '192.168.0.15 (192.168.0.15)' can't be established.
    RSA key fingerprint is 40:bc:2b:96:da:52:d9:59:1f:00:74:f1:05:f4:f5:f1.
    Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
    root@192.168.0.15's password:
    root@debian:~# ls -al /home/
    ls: cannot access /home/partimag: Input/output error
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  80 Apr 11 19:41 .
    drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 220 Apr 11 19:41 ..
    d?????????  ? ?    ?      ?            ? partimag
    drwxr-xr-x  3 user user 180 Apr 11 19:42 user
    root@debian:~# cd /home/partimag
    -su: cd: /home/partimag: Input/output error
    root@debian:~# logout
    user@debian:~$ xit

    On the servers, I have linked /home/partimag to /mnt/win/partimag
    It looks like this:

    # ls -al /home/
    total 12
    drwxr-xr-x.  3 root   root   4096 Jun 18  2011 .
    dr-xr-xr-x. 23 root   root   4096 Apr 11 19:46 ..
    lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root   root     17 Jun 18  2011 partimag -> /mnt/win/partimag

    I don't see anything unusual there and as I said, it works on older versions of your livecd.
    I even tried re-downloading and re-burning to cd.
    Also, I have tried it on three more linux servers with the same failure.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2012-04-12

    Do not enter /home/partimag/, it's a link and sshfs won't work.
    Please use /mnt/win/partimag/.

    Steven.

     
  • amtech

    amtech - 2012-04-12

    Thanks for your reply
    I know it's a link, always has been and always worked on previous versions.

     
  • amtech

    amtech - 2012-04-15

    Even though the linked folder used to work, I am more interested in having it work without having other users worry about changing the default /home/partimag when using the livecd.
    So, I made a couple of changes on the server which does work.

    First, I made sure to unlink the existing:
    unlink /home/partimag

    Then, I made a folder:
    mkdir /home/partimag

    Then, I added a line to /etc/fstab below the existing line to mount /home/partimag:
    UUID=a4f77a07-6c22-4013-9301-2cd0ec06f4fc /mnt/win ext3 defaults 0 0
    /mnt/win/partimag /home/partimag auto bind 0 0

    It works and that's ok with me!

    Thank you for the wonderful work Steven and pleas keep it up! :)

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2012-04-20

    Yes, definitely it's a good solution.
    Thanks for sharing that.

    Steven.

     

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