[ovirt-users] How to mount/use a shareable disk

[Dan Yasny]

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Jayme Fall <jayme at silverorange.com> wrote:

> I’m playing around with shared disks in ovirt to allow a couple of vm’s to
> access the same data.  I created a new disk that is shareable and attached
> it to one of my CentOS vms but I don’t understand how to actually make use
> of the shared disk.  It does not show up as a mounted disk on the Centos
> VM.


If it shows in fdisk -l, you should be able to mount it (after formatting
of course). Add it to fstab if you want it to happen automatically


> How do I actually use this shared disk from within my VM, or am I
> mis-understanding its purpose?
>

You attach such disks to multiple VMs at the same time, and use a clustered
FS to mitigate access and locking.


>
> Thanks!
>
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