Description

When doing  "show system storage partitions" in legacy EX devices such as EX4300 , EX4400 , EX2200 , EX3300  devices might show might different partition being used , not all devices will use same partition it is expected that devices select the partition randomly/arbitrarily

Symptoms

root> show system storage partitions
fpc0:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Boot Media: internal (da0)
Active Partition: da0s2a
Backup Partition: da0s1a
Currently booted from: active (da0s2a) <<<< fpc0 has S2a

Partitions information:
  Partition  Size   Mountpoint
  s1a        316M   altroot
  s2a        324M   /
  s3d        887M   /var/tmp
  s3e        170M   /var
  s4d        116M   /config

fpc1:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Boot Media: internal (da0)
Active Partition: da0s2a
Backup Partition: da0s1a
Currently booted from: active (da0s2a) <<<< fpc1 has s2a as well

Partitions information:
  Partition  Size   Mountpoint
  s1a        316M   altroot
  s2a        324M   /
  s3d        887M   /var/tmp
  s3e        170M   /var
  s4d        116M   /config

fpc2:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Boot Media: internal (da0)
Active Partition: da0s2a
Backup Partition: da0s1a
Currently booted from: active (da0s2a)

Partitions information:
  Partition  Size   Mountpoint
  s1a        316M   altroot
  s2a        324M   /
  s3d        887M   /var/tmp
  s3e        170M   /var
  s4d        116M   /config

fpc3:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Boot Media: internal (da0)
Active Partition: da0s1a
Backup Partition: da0s2a
Currently booted from: active (da0s1a)

Partitions information:
  Partition  Size   Mountpoint
  s1a        316M   /
  s2a        324M   altroot
  s3d        887M   /var/tmp
  s3e        170M   /var
  s4d        116M   /config

fpc4:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Boot Media: internal (da0)
Active Partition: da0s2a
Backup Partition: da0s1a
Currently booted from: active (da0s2a)

Partitions information:
  Partition  Size   Mountpoint
  s1a        316M   altroot
  s2a        324M   /
  s3d        887M   /var/tmp
  s3e        170M   /var
  s4d        116M   /config

fpc5:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Boot Media: internal (da0)
Active Partition: da0s1a
Backup Partition: da0s2a
Currently booted from: active (da0s1a)<<<< fpc5 though has s1a active

Partitions information:
  Partition  Size   Mountpoint
  s1a        316M   /
  s2a        324M   altroot
  s3d        887M   /var/tmp
  s3e        170M   /var
  s4d        116M   /config

                     {master:0}
root@SIG-OCC-CTC-SW-VC>
 

Solution

This is expected not all devices will use same partition it is expected that devices select the partition randomly/arbitrarily

Modification History

2023-10-02