Reusing an Existing Scratch Disk - Manual Method (4032815)

There are 3 basic methods you can use to reuse the existing scratch disk data. The video in this solution wil cover the third method. The other methods are covered in https://support.quest.com/kb/102621

• Deploy a new VA
• Attach existing scratch disk
• Add a persistent mount.
  
  Log into the VA and execute the following commands:
  mkdir /scratch
  mkdir /scratch/sdb
  echo "/dev/sdb /scratch/sdb ext3 defaults 0 1" >> /etc/fstab
  mount -a
  
  Explanation of commands:  
  
  We need to create a mount point before we mount the device. The mkdir commands are used to create the mount point.
  
  fstab is the configuration file that contains info on the partitions and devices on the linux machine. You can configure this file to create a persistent mount.
  
  The echo command is adding "/dev/sdb /scratch/sdb ext3 defaults 0 1" into the fstab file.
  
  /dev/sdb = Device or Drive
  /scratch/sdb= mount point
  ext3 = file system type
  defaults = Mount Options ( default = rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async)
  0 = Dump option -Dump will not backup the file system
  1 = File system check
  
  mount -a will then mount items that are configured in fstab.