Mounting SAN using shell script

linux_new_bie · 09-25-2012, 10:44 PM

Hi experts,
Greetings.
I am a newbie in linux and i have to write a shell script to include the mount command to mount the SAN.
I dont know how to run the command as super user.Can anyone please help me by providing the shell script to do so.
Actually the shell script should check whether SAN is mounted and if not mount the SAN

Sample;
mount /dev/sda1 /iscsi/vol01

This is the command .I dont know how to include it in shell script and put it in cron .So the shell script should not ask for superuser password at runtime.

Please help me by giving your valuable suggestions and ideas.

Thanks in advance.

sackboy · 09-26-2012, 01:38 AM

Duplicate post?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...an-4175429043/

sundialsvcs · 09-26-2012, 07:33 AM

Most of the time, I see these things listed in the mount-table for "automounting" to take care of at startup. Otherwise, I'd check the website documentation for that particular SAN, to see what they suggest as to "best practices" for their particular hardware. In other words, this isn't a script I'd plan to spend much time on, because I'd presume that there's probably an already-existing off the shelf way to do such a common and everyday thing. "Do not do a thing already done ..."

Rupadhya · 09-26-2012, 10:58 AM

I did this to mount my old Windows XP machine to Linux. I run it as a cron job that executes every minute.

Code:

#! /bin/bash
## Mount the other machine
mountpoint="//192.168.1.1/C"
volume="/home/raj/c"
if mount | grep "on ${volume} type" > /dev/null
then
   echo "nothing" > /dev/null
else
   mount -w -t cifs $mountpoint $volume -o user={username}%{password},dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0766
fi