Chapter 6 Managing the File System
Managing File System Operations
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Mounting or Unmounting
a File System 6This task enables you to mount or unmount a file system. You must
unmount a file system if you want to take it out of service to make
configuration changes or perform other administrative tasks. You must
mount a file system to place it back into service.
1From the SNFS home page, and choose Mount/Unmount from the
Admin menu. The Mount or Unmount File System screen appears.
Figure 64 Mount or Unmount
File System Screen
2Do one of the following:
• Select a file system from the Unmounted File Systems list and
click Mount. The Mount File System Status screen appears.
• Select a file system from the Mounted File Systems list and click
Unmount. The Unmount File System Status screen appears.
3After the status screen informs you that the task has successfully
completed, click Close.
Note: Before you unmount the file system you must stop the SNSM
component as described in Starting and Stopping StorNext
Components on page 51.
Note: The StorNext GUI performs NFS export/unexport on mount/
dismount.