"/proc/partitions not found" error is showing up

command-line 10.04 files

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Solution 1

As you said in your comment, you're on a virtual private server (VPS). OpenVZ as well as other VPS solutions don't offer access to /proc/partitions. The whole /proc partition is a virtual filesystem (procfs). The structure is maintained in the kernel. So it will not work to manually create the file.

The DataStax OpsCenter has a support forum. At the moment I found no questions qhich deal with your problem. However the experts there should be able to help you out.

Solution 2

To get proc file system you might need to mount it.

mount proc /proc

To get list of partitions I use following commands. Each of them gives list of partitions.

fdisk -l 
parted -l
df -h
mount

Note: mount only displays list of volumes currently mounted and df shows statistics of mounted volumes.

Answer created by @Shiplu in a Stack Overflow tread.

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Linas

Geeky programmer

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Linas over 1 year
I am configuring a webserver in Ubuntu 10.04. More particularly I am installing DataStax OpsCenter.

Unfortunately, the logs are spammed with this error:
```
ERROR [pool-3-thread-7] 2013-02-15 22:04:34,533 Long os-stats collector failed: Process failed: cat /proc/partitions
  Exit val: 1
  Output:
cat: /proc/partitions: No such file or directory
ERROR [pool-5-thread-3] 2013-02-15 22:04:56,846 Error getting devices and partitions #<IOException java.io.IOException: Process failed: cat /proc/partitions
  Exit val: 1
  Output:
cat: /proc/partitions: No such file or directory>
```
Why do I get cat: /proc/partitions: No such file or directory?

I really doubt that the problem is with the application I am using, because if I run this command from command line cat /proc/partitions I still get No such file or directory and from what I have found in some forums that directory should be created when the OS is starting up, I could be wrong but that's as far I got.
- Agmenor about 11 years
  
  Hello Linas and welcome on Ask Ubuntu ! Could you please tell again what version of Ubuntu you are using (10.04 or 12.04) ? Furthermore, could you tell us what you try to install and what tutorial you are following ? Usually, "No such file or directory" means that the directory doesn't exist.
- chaskes about 11 years
  
  When you reboot -- and before opening DataStax OpsCenter -- does /proc/partions exist?
- Linas about 11 years
  
  @chaskes no it doesn't
- qbi about 11 years
  
  Are you using a VPS? Does /proc/diskstats exist?
- Linas about 11 years
  
  @qbi Yes I am using VPS, and not that dir do not exist
Linas about 11 years

Just tried that and it says proc already mounted
Linas about 11 years

Just tried that and got this: ` cannot create directory partitions': No such file or directory however i can create this dir anywhere else
Agmenor about 11 years

I updated the answer, can you say whether the /proc/partitions folder then exists ?
Linas about 11 years

tried to run both commands, for the first one it says that /proc dir already exists and for the second one i still get cannot create directory /proc/partitions': No such file or directory
Linas about 11 years

Well that explains it, i will try my luck there then, thanks
gertvdijk almost 11 years

I don't think it applies on this website - you're on Ask Ubuntu here and your answer is Windows specific.