VMWARE and mount points
My customer has an issue on a linux vm. When he restores files from his machine he can't see files that are on an other filesystem mounted under /opt.
So the VM has 3 disks, normal os, swap and da...
Marianne, thanks alot for still replying to this. I didn't receive a notification about your first reply...
I PMed to Nicolai that I made a support case and that it was pending investigation.
Past friday I received a solution from the symantec engineer. According to him and his testing done in his lab it has to do with the formatting of the disk. The partition type is not the same as the filesystem on it. In "df -h" it shows as a "VMWARE VMFS" system, it should show "Linux". So my customer made a partition of type vmware vmfs and formatted it using ext3...
Changing the partition type can be done with fdisk but it can mean data loss... My customer will be copying the data to a new correctly formatted disk.
