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Thursday, December 9, 2010 6:41 PM
I have an issue that no one here has previously encountered and for which online searching turned up nothing so far. We have a two node Windows 2008 R2/SQL 2000 R2 cluster. Some of the storage utilized by the cluster is mount volumes under a common mount point. The mounted volumes all have a dependency on the mount point and all fail over between nodes successfully.
My question is about the icons that are presented for the mounted volumes when they are viewed in windows explorer. Sometimes the icons are what look like four stacked file servers, sometimes the icons are half of the previous (two stacked file servers?) other times a yellow folder icon, all have the "shortcut" arrow. The icons are sometimes all the same and other times are a mix of the various possibilities. All the volumes can be browsed in Explorer irregardless of the icon being displayed. None of the icons are the same as the icons listed under the cluster Services and Applications. The icon will change for a mounted volume although when/why the change takes place hasn't been determined.
Although this might be somewhat vague, can anyone offer any insight into what the various icons represent and why they change?
Thanks
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Saturday, December 11, 2010 2:36 AM | 1 vote
Hi,
Whether the issue persists if you re-mount the volume? What's the permission setting of the mounted volume? Is there anything different as others?
As you said it is a stange issue. You can try to run a monitor tool such as process monitor to see if we can get more information about it.
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Monday, December 13, 2010 9:23 AM
Hi,
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:36 PM
Thanks for the reply.
Due to the fact that there haven't been any reported/apparent performance implications, I'm not currently doing any further troubleshooting on this issue.
I've moved on to other issues.
Thanks
Monday, February 21, 2011 11:36 AM
A late reply for this question - I have a similar issue to that described here.
We have EVA LUNs presented as mount points. Recently one of the mount points icons turned from a drive to a folder.....this is a problem for us.
On turning to a folder icon it becomes included in total disk space used by the parent drive letter which is Z:\ in our case. This lead us to a premature disk full status and suggested that the mount point link between Windows 2008 and the EVA LUN had been broken.
Checking through Windows 2008 Disk Management and registy the mount point still appears healthy.
The crux - on the EVA the LUN appeared as unpresented. We have a suspicion that this process occurred around the same time as the mount point which is 120GB in size filled up with Exchange 2010 catalog data.
We are yet to find the reason for this but a little further testing should make it clear.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 1:58 AM
Was anybody able to find out what is causing this?
Sunday, October 23, 2011 12:34 AM
Yes, We also experiencing simillar issue.
Mount Volume showing as Yellow folder icon.
Becasue of this , SCOM alerts is showing as
Alert: Logical Disk Free Space is low
Source: \?\Volume{7ea5fd0c-c8bd-11de-a728-002264f39ebe}
Rather than disk path ...
Any thoughts on this ?
Regards Gopi K
Friday, July 15, 2016 11:35 PM
I know this is a 6 year old question but I came across this issue recently and the difference in icons really bothered me so I went about trying to figure out the why of it. Turns out, the only difference between the mount points that have a "shortcut to folder" type of icon and those that have a "shortcut to drive" type of icon is the partition style of the disk (in our case the LUN that the point point was for).
MBR Partition Style = "Shortcut to folder" type of icon
GPT Partition Style = "Shortcut to drive" type of icon
Cheers,
Eric
Saturday, July 16, 2016 5:13 AM
Wow, things posted to the internet really do never die! Thanks for the answer. I'm on about my third job since the one I was at when I posted the question but I do recall this issue and have actually wondered a few times about that icon issue from 2011 and this clears it up.
Friday, March 10, 2017 6:46 PM
Wish that were true, I came here from a search, as I have some showing shortcuts as folders and some as drives, but they are all GPT partitions...
Monday, July 17, 2017 7:33 PM
Similar issue .... I created 2 brand new mount point Windows disks (2008 R2 ~~ Yes, I write this in 2017). The first one ended up with a yellow-folder icon. The 2nd with a shortcut icon. (Both initialized together as GPT). >> I took the "problematic" Windows disk offline, and put it back online .... and the yellow-folder-icon changed to a shortcut icon. :-)
Thursday, May 9, 2019 10:26 AM
It's 2019 and I have this issue, all LUNs are basic not GPT. I have 50 or so mounts and some icons are yellow folder and others look like traditional mount icon. I think its a bug, they operate normally so I am not investigating further.