My iSCSI drive got renamed. Need to restore old name

[rstartree]

I use a NAS for my Mac OS X Server system. I've dedicated one of the iSCSI LUNs to store all my user home directories. Today, for some inexplicable reason, the iSCSI drive got renamed from Foobar to 00

The mount point also got renamed to from /Volumes/Foobar to /Volumes/00.

I manually renamed /Volumes/00 back to /Volumes/Foobar by opening a Terminal window and typing 'mv 00 Foobar', but I would like to restore the old name for the iSCSI drive.

Can someone show me how to do this?

[cpragman]

Not sure why it got renamed, but you can force it to have a particular volume name using fstab.
https://developer.apple.com/library/...5/fstab.5.html

[rstartree]

Quote: Originally Posted by cpragman Not sure why it got renamed, but you can force it to have a particular volume name using fstab. https://developer.apple.com/library/...5/fstab.5.html

Thanks. I tried to edit the /etc/fstab file, but I am running Mac OS X Server 10.6.8, and there is no /etc/fstab file. The closest is a file called /etc/fstab.hd, which contains the following:

IGNORE THIS FILE.
This file does nothing, contains no useful data, and might go away in
future releases. Do not depend on this file or its contents.

Is there a away to fix an iSCSI volume name in Mac OS X Server?

[hayne]

I have no experience with OS X Server, but normally you just rename the drive in Finder the way you would rename any file/folder.

[rstartree]

Quote: Originally Posted by hayne I have no experience with OS X Server, but normally you just rename the drive in Finder the way you would rename any file/folder.

I tried to rename it in the Finder by right-clicking the drive and selecting 'Get Info'. I then tried to change back to the earlier name by typing 'Foobar' in Name & Extension. When I try to save it (by enterring the carriage return), I get the message:

The name "Foobar" can't be used.

Try using a name with fewer characters, or with no punctuation marks.

I gather that some part of the file system got corrupted, so that I cannot rename the iSCSI drive Volume using the Finder. Perhaps I can circumvent this problem by trying to rename the drive in the command line instead of the Finder. Is there a way to do this in the command line?

[hayne]

First off, try renaming it to something other than "Foobar" - i.e. try a name that hasn't been used before.

[rstartree]

Quote: Originally Posted by hayne First off, try renaming it to something other than "Foobar" - i.e. try a name that hasn't been used before.

I tried that, but I get the same error message. Renaming that iSCSI drive volume via the Finder seems to be inoperative in the current circumstances.

[hayne]

I assume you've tried rebooting that Mac

[rstartree]

Quote: Originally Posted by hayne I assume you've tried rebooting that Mac

That would be giving me more credit than I deserve.

I was apprehensive about rebooting the machine, fearing that something worse would happen to the filesystem. After your message, though, I thought: What the hell...

So I rebooted, and tried to rename the iSCSI drive volume using the Finder again. This time it worked!

Problem solved!

I don't know what caused the iSCSI drive to get renamed, but I'm glad that a reboot cleared it up. Many thanks for you help and your suggestions. it's much appreciated.

[agentx]

iSCSI on OS X is far from perfect and there are certainly issues relating to mount points going bad. I am glad that a restart "fixed" the issue but expect it to happen again as Apple do not provide the iSCSI protocol stack which SHOULD be part of the kernel not a bolt on to OS which will be prone to issues.

Are you using the GlobalSAN driver ?

[cpragman]

if /etc/fstab doesn't exist, you can always create it yourself.