Exclamation point in disk path? (i.e. /dev/cciss!c0d0p3)
 

here's output of "df"

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss!c0d0p3 267553232 158337856 95405100 63% /
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 101086 9642 86225 11% /boot
tmpfs 2502244 0 2502244 0% /dev/shm

[root@machine dev]# ls -al /dev/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 3640 Jul 12 13:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Jul 12 08:32 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Jul 12 08:31 bus
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Jul 12 08:31 cciss
brwx------ 1 root root 104, 0 Jul 12 03:31 cciss!c0d0
brwx------ 1 root root 104, 1 Jul 12 03:31 cciss!c0d0p1
brwx------ 1 root root 104, 2 Jul 12 03:31 cciss!c0d0p2
brwx------ 1 root root 104, 3 Jul 12 03:31 cciss!c0d0p3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jul 12 08:31 cdrom -> hda

What is that exclamation point doing in /dev/cciss!/c0d0p3???

Here's another interesting thing. When I first installed Fedora, I manually set up partitions using three filesystems. I got errors booting up about it not having write access to the root partition. I had to boot from CD using "linux rescue", disable fsck by adding a "0 0" at the end of the line in fstab and also disable SELinux. It then rebooted without any problems.

Next, I installed using the default partitions and did not edit them. You know, the logical volumes or what not. It started up without any errors. No complaints about not having write access.

Next, I went back and specified my three partitions like I initially did. Set up a swap partition, set up a /boot partition and a / partition. Same errors about not having write access as before.

Interestingly enough, there were no exclamation points when running "df" using the logical volumes. But when I specify three partitions manually, it shows up with an exclamation point rather than a slash.

Everything seems to be working okay. Othar than our Oracle database having to wait on the disk a lot.

Why is my disk drive showing up with a slash in it? Should I be concerned? We have other servers running RHEL and SLES and everything is fine. Why did I need to disable SELinux and disable fsck?

If it means anything, this box has the "!" showing up and my backup exec linux agent doesnt work. On my other fedora box, there is no "!" and mybackups work fine. Since Veritas/Symantec doesnt support Fedora, they wont help.

Thanks in advance,

Jim