I have been seeing this in the logs on the proxmox host ( which I call pve-backup). It is a simple setup with 1 vm, here is the relevant info.
first the error message
Oct 08 21:18:50 pve-backup pvestatd[1409]: 5:185m5:185munable to activate storage 'data1' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/mnt/pve/data1'
Oct 08 21:19:00 pve-backup pvestatd[1409]: 5:185m5:185munable to activate storage 'data1' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/mnt/pve/data1'
Oct 08 21:19:10 pve-backup pvestatd[1409]: 5:185m5:185munable to activate storage 'data1' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/mnt/pve/data1'
so I started digging. here are the disks I have installed, sdb, sdc, sdd are all set as pci passthrough to a vm.
root@pve-backup:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 7.3T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1007K 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 511G 0 part
│ ├─pve-swap 252:0 0 8G 0 lvm [SWAP]
│ ├─pve-root 252:1 0 96G 0 lvm /
│ ├─pve-data_tmeta 252:2 0 3.9G 0 lvm
│ │ └─pve-data-tpool 252:4 0 383.2G 0 lvm
│ │ ├─pve-data 252:5 0 383.2G 1 lvm
│ │ └─pve-vm--100--disk--0 252:6 0 125G 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data_tdata 252:3 0 383.2G 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data-tpool 252:4 0 383.2G 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-data 252:5 0 383.2G 1 lvm
│ └─pve-vm--100--disk--0 252:6 0 125G 0 lvm
└─sda4 8:4 0 6.8T 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 3.6T 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 7.3T 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 7.2T 0 part
sdd 8:48 0 3.6T 0 disk
└─sdd1 8:49 0 3.6T 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
so I did also find this entry in the /dev/disk hierarchy
root@pve-backup:/dev/disk/by-partlabel# ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 8 20:35 data1 -> ../../sdc1
because I saw an error message about data1, and it led me to look at the mount points, which are
root@pve-backup:/# ls -l /mnt/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 6 20:31 sda
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 8 18:06 tmp1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 25 19:04 tmp2
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 9 15:17 velocity
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 05:50 wd-red-3tb
I don't have anything mounted other than that which is required to boot.
root@pve-backup:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 32G 0 32G 0% /dev
tmpfs 6.3G 3.0M 6.3G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/pve-root 94G 8.5G 81G 10% /
tmpfs 32G 46M 32G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 32G 0 32G 0% /tmp
/dev/fuse 128M 24K 128M 1% /etc/pve
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/getty@tty1.service
tmpfs 6.3G 8.0K 6.3G 1% /run/user/0
so, I am confused, any ideas ?
first the error message
Oct 08 21:18:50 pve-backup pvestatd[1409]: 5:185m5:185munable to activate storage 'data1' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/mnt/pve/data1'
Oct 08 21:19:00 pve-backup pvestatd[1409]: 5:185m5:185munable to activate storage 'data1' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/mnt/pve/data1'
Oct 08 21:19:10 pve-backup pvestatd[1409]: 5:185m5:185munable to activate storage 'data1' - directory is expected to be a mount point but is not mounted: '/mnt/pve/data1'
so I started digging. here are the disks I have installed, sdb, sdc, sdd are all set as pci passthrough to a vm.
root@pve-backup:~# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 7.3T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1007K 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 1G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 511G 0 part
│ ├─pve-swap 252:0 0 8G 0 lvm [SWAP]
│ ├─pve-root 252:1 0 96G 0 lvm /
│ ├─pve-data_tmeta 252:2 0 3.9G 0 lvm
│ │ └─pve-data-tpool 252:4 0 383.2G 0 lvm
│ │ ├─pve-data 252:5 0 383.2G 1 lvm
│ │ └─pve-vm--100--disk--0 252:6 0 125G 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data_tdata 252:3 0 383.2G 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data-tpool 252:4 0 383.2G 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-data 252:5 0 383.2G 1 lvm
│ └─pve-vm--100--disk--0 252:6 0 125G 0 lvm
└─sda4 8:4 0 6.8T 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 3.6T 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 7.3T 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 7.2T 0 part
sdd 8:48 0 3.6T 0 disk
└─sdd1 8:49 0 3.6T 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
so I did also find this entry in the /dev/disk hierarchy
root@pve-backup:/dev/disk/by-partlabel# ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 8 20:35 data1 -> ../../sdc1
because I saw an error message about data1, and it led me to look at the mount points, which are
root@pve-backup:/# ls -l /mnt/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 6 20:31 sda
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 8 18:06 tmp1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 25 19:04 tmp2
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 9 15:17 velocity
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 05:50 wd-red-3tb
I don't have anything mounted other than that which is required to boot.
root@pve-backup:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 32G 0 32G 0% /dev
tmpfs 6.3G 3.0M 6.3G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/pve-root 94G 8.5G 81G 10% /
tmpfs 32G 46M 32G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 32G 0 32G 0% /tmp
/dev/fuse 128M 24K 128M 1% /etc/pve
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/getty@tty1.service
tmpfs 6.3G 8.0K 6.3G 1% /run/user/0
so, I am confused, any ideas ?