[SOLVED] Unable to activate storage 'local' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mount

teerawich

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Hello,

My Proxmox VE 5.3.1 clusters 7 nodes running kernel 4.15.18-ll-pve local storage was not working all nodes

syslog:

11:19:09 pxSATA02 pvestatd[1879]: unable to activate storage 'local' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/var/lib/vz'
Mar 14 11:19:19 pxSATA02 pvestatd[1879]: unable to activate storage 'local' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/var/lib/vz'
Mar 14 11:19:29 pxSATA02 pvestatd[1879]: unable to activate storage 'local' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/var/lib/vz'
Mar 14 11:19:39 pxSATA02 pvestatd[1879]: unable to activate storage 'local' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/var/lib/vz'
Mar 14 11:19:50 pxSATA02 pvestatd[1879]: unable to activate storage 'local' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/var/lib/vz

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 48G 0 48G 0% /dev
tmpfs 9.5G 9.1M 9.5G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/pxSATA07--vg-root 363G 2.5G 342G 1% /
tmpfs 48G 63M 48G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 48G 0 48G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 916G 77M 870G 1% /mnt/pve/SATA1PX7
/dev/sdc1 236M 89M 136M 40% /boot
192.168.4.253:/mnt/nfs/nfs/Template 888G 128G 761G 15% /mnt/pve/TemplateNFS
tmpfs 9.5G 0 9.5G 0% /run/user/0
/dev/fuse 30M 152K 30M 1% /etc/pve

ls -la /var/lib/vz
@pxSATA07:/var/lib/vz# ls -la /var/lib/vz/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 14 10:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 37 root root 4096 Mar 13 16:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 13 16:15 dump
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:40 images
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 13 16:15 private
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 13 16:15 snippets
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 13 17:48 template

I would like to know the problem, Please recommended to fix it.
Thank you.
 
can you post your /etc/pve/storage.cfg ?
 

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