This article contains information about mounting a hard disk drive to a NetScaler appliance.

Instructions

1. Restart the NetScaler appliance in the single user mode. To restart the appliance in a single user mode, complete the following sub-procedure:

   1. Restart the appliance.

   2. Press Spacebar when the following message is displayed:
      Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel] in 10 seconds...
      After you press Spacebar, the following message is displayed:
      Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.

   3. To start the FreeBSD operating system in the single user mode, issue the boot –s command.
      The following message is displayed as soon as the appliance starts:
      Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:

   4. Press Enter.

2. Run the fsck -y /dev/ad2s1e command to check and correct the inode errors or fragments in the superblock, if any.

3. Run the mount /dev/ad2s1e /var command to mount the hard disk drive to the NetScaler appliance.

4. Restart the NetScaler appliance.

root@ns# df -h

Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/md0c      149M    135M     11M    93%    /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
procfs         4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /proc
/dev/ad0s1a    226M    187M     21M    90%    /flash
/dev/ad2s1e     66G     17G     44G    28%    /var

Refer to the Knowledge Center article Device Names Assigned to Hard Disk in Various Models of the Citrix NetScaler Appliance for more information about the device names assigned to the hard disk drives in the various models of the NetScaler appliance.