How Do I Fix Error "Failed to mount partition xxx to directory xxx"?

Symptom

During a Linux file-level migration, the migration failed, and you received message "SMS.3205 Failed to mount partition /dev/vdc1 to directory /mnt/vdc1."

Possible Causes

There is a file system on the source server not supported by SMS.

Solution

Currently, SMS supports Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, VFAT, and Btrfs files systems for Linux.

For unsupported file systems such as ReiserFS, you can copy files to other file systems, uninstall the unsupported file systems, and then perform the migration.

If this is not possible on the source server, you can:

• Use IMS to create a system disk image for the source server from an external image file and use the image to create a server on the cloud platform.
• Use a public or Marketplace image to create a server and deploy your applications on the server.