Re: OT: Linux df question

  • From: "David Fitzjarrell" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "oratune@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
  • To: "sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx" <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx>, "Sweetser, Joe" <JSweetser@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:50:37 -0700

I really believe Seth hit this nail on the head; it's not only file permissions 
but ACL privileges as well, and those may be different for /boot/efi than they 
are for /boot.

 
David Fitzjarrell
Principal author, "Oracle Exadata Survival Guide"



On Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:58 PM, Seth Miller <sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
 


As root:

getfacl /boot
getfacl /boot/efi


As oracle:

strace df -h

Seth





On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Sweetser, Joe <JSweetser@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

$ ls -ld /dev/sda1
>brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Jul  9 07:40 /dev/sda1
>$ ls -ld /dev/sda2
>brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Jul  9 07:40 /dev/sda2
> 
>FWIW, 7:40 was the time of the reboot after the new 10gb card installation.  
>Also, the previous output was sent only to show that the file protections were 
>the same between /boot and /boot/efi.  I guess it would make a bit more sense 
>to me if I could not see /boot, either.
> 
>Thanks,
>-joe
> 
>From:Seth Miller [mailto:sethmiller.sm@xxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:18 PM
>To: Sweetser, Joe
>Cc: oracle-l (oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>Subject: Re: OT: Linux df question
> 
>Joe,
> 
>Send output of these:
> 
>ls -ld /dev/sda1
>ls -ld /dev/sda2
> 
>Seth
> 
> 
>On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Sweetser, Joe <JSweetser@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>A bit of strangeness on a new server.
>
>$ cat /etc/redhat-release
>Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)
>
>Systems team had the system up but could not get a 10gb ethernet card to work. 
> However, the output of df -h was normal when logged in as the oracle user.
>
>They did something yesterday (new card at a minimum) and now the 10gb 
>interface works but the df command throws an error (though it does complete).  
>This doesn't appear to be causing any issues but it does bug me a bit.  I 
>can't find much online about the error
 other than the grub file down that tree is needed for booting.
>
>(oracle)
>$ df -h
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/sda7              73G  5.5G   64G   8% /
>tmpfs                  95G   88K   95G   1% /dev/shm
>/dev/sda2             200M   24M  176M  12% /boot
>df: `/boot/efi': Permission denied
>/dev/sda6              97G   22G   71G  24% /opt
>/dev/sda3             842G  4.7G  794G   1% /u01
>/dev/sda4             842G   58G  742G   8% /u02
>/dev/sda8             837G  7.7G  787G   1% /u03
>/dev/sdb1             2.8T   58G  2.6T   3% /u04
>
>(root)
># df -h
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/sda7              73G  5.5G   64G   8% /
>tmpfs                  95G   88K   95G   1% /dev/shm
>/dev/sda2             200M   24M  176M  12% /boot
>/dev/sda1             200M  256K  200M   1% /boot/efi
>/dev/sda6              97G   22G   71G  24% /opt
>/dev/sda3             842G  4.7G  794G   1% /u01
>/dev/sda4             842G   58G  742G   8% /u02
>/dev/sda8             837G  7.7G  787G   1% /u03
>/dev/sdb1             2.8T   58G  2.6T   3% /u04
>
># ls -ld /boot
>drwx------ 4 root root 16384 Dec 31  1969 /boot
>
># ls -ld /boot/efi
>drwx------ 3 root root 16384 Dec 31  1969 /boot/efi
>
>Any/all ideas/comments welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>-joe
>
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