# Additional mounts not working

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/additional-mounts-not-working/8032>\
**Category:** RancherOS\
**Created:** [December 13, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/additional-mounts-not-working/8032 "2017-12-13T07:41:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![EugenMayer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/eugenmayer/32/1415_2.png) [@EugenMayer](https://forums.suse.com/u/EugenMayer)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 7:41am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/additional-mounts-not-working/8032/1 "2017-12-13T07:41:48Z")

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I am trying to get additional mounts working. I am using 1.1.1

```
ros os version
v1.1.1

```

I set extra mounts using

```
ros config set mounts '[["/dev/vdb","/opt/default","ext4"],["/dev/vdc","/opt/fast","ext4"]]'

```

And it looks like this

```
ros config get mounts
- - /dev/vdb
  - /opt/default
  - ext4
- - /dev/vdc
  - /opt/fast
  - ext4

```

When i do not format the disks prior reboot, it reboots but nothing is mounted. If i format the disks using

```
mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdb
mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdc

```

I can mount them properly using

```
mount /dev/vdb /opt/default
mount /dev/vdc /opt/fast

```

The boot stucks at

```
[17.266437] docker-sys: port 1(vethfafdb7be) entered blocking state
[17.267653] docker-sys: port 1(vethfafdb7be) entered forwarding state
[] ros-sysinit:info: [18/18] [preload-user-images]: Started
[] ros-sysinit:info: [3/4] Starting sync
[] ros-sysinit:info: Project [os]: Project started
[] ros-sysinit:info: [4/4] Starting banner
[] ros-sysinit:info: RancherOS v1.1.1 started

```

Interestingly not even the `ttyS0` autologin console does work in this case. It does work if `recovery console` is selected in `grub` and it does work if the system actually boots, the autologin works on `ttS0`.

That said, i cannot really retrieve any logs for further analysis and i cannot really see the docs [http://rancher.com/docs/os/v1.1/en/storage/additional-mounts/](http://rancher.com/docs/os/v1.1/en/storage/additional-mounts/) being of any help.

So concrete questions are

1. Do i need / have to format the disk being mounted prior defining the mounts in rancher ( to have them working )?
2. If yes, why does the system stalls on boot?
3. (thats kind of a offtopic here, but interesting for analysis for the actual problem): Why is autologin not working at all, does the consol not start up ( ssh is not working either, but that is what i expected ).

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**Author:** ![EugenMayer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/eugenmayer/32/1415_2.png) [@EugenMayer](https://forums.suse.com/u/EugenMayer)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/additional-mounts-not-working/8032/2 "2017-12-13T15:15:26Z")

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One needs to preformat the disks and also ensure the 4th paramter is set, see this PR: [https://github.com/rancher/rancher.github.io/pull/951](https://github.com/rancher/rancher.github.io/pull/951)

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**Author:** ![EugenMayer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/eugenmayer/32/1415_2.png) [@EugenMayer](https://forums.suse.com/u/EugenMayer)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/additional-mounts-not-working/8032/3 "2017-12-13T16:07:09Z")

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Maybe for the reference, if you want to actually mount `/var/lib/docker` you need to change the location first

```auto
mounts:
  - ["/dev/vdb", "/mnt/docker", "ext4", ""]
rancher:
  docker:
    graph: /mnt/docker

```

so we move the location to `/mnt/docker` and then mount this. Mounting on `/var/lib/docker` will not work, e.g. that one will fail

```auto
mounts:
  - ["/dev/vdb", "/var/lib/docker", "ext4", ""]

```

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**Author:** ![goto100](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/goto100/32/4606_2.png) [@goto100](https://forums.suse.com/u/goto100)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 11:51am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/additional-mounts-not-working/8032/4 "2018-11-06T11:51:54Z")

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What can I do if I already do this wrongly? I’m stuck when then os start

[] ros-sysinit:info: RancherOS v1.1.3 started

and no any further outputs.

I logged in to the recovery mode, but I can’t find how to correct the config, the wrong “mounts” config didn’t showed in ros config export command.

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**Author:** ![goto100](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/goto100/32/4606_2.png) [@goto100](https://forums.suse.com/u/goto100)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 12:04pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/additional-mounts-not-working/8032/5 "2018-11-06T12:04:06Z")

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and there is no file at /var/lib/rancher/conf/cloud-config.yml in recovery mode