A mount is the process of attaching a file system to a computer so that it can be accessed. Depending on the operating system, a mount could be local or remote, via a network, read-only or read-write, or many other options.
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recursive mounts not visible in endpoint
I have a little (virtual) infrastructure with multiple servers - and some of these configuration I cannot change because of software restrictions. 2 of the servers are WEBservers, and a NAS-like ...
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Mount ext3 from remote Windows machine (XP/Vista/7) through ssh?
Is it possible to mount external ext3 network drive from Windows through ssh/sftp ?
I would like to avoid samba/cifs.
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USB Image Mounting Executable
So I've used Daemon tools before to mount ISO images but I was wondering if anyone knows of a lightweight IOS mounter executable that I can put on a thumbdrive and run from any windows device without ...
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Mounting filesystem on logical volume inside virtual whole-disk image
I have tried to mount a virtual disk image on my Fedora host using the command
qemu-nbd -c /dev/ndb0 rawhide.img
and then detecting the LVM logical volumes and mounting the one I wanted. Obviously, ...
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NFS Mount Options on Solaris 10
I need to be able to mount an NFS file system on Solaris 10 using the equivalent of the nolock mount option. From what I can see this mount option is not available on Solaris (looks like its a Linux ...
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How to mount Solaris Hard Drive?
I have received a HDD. It has single partition with id 42 SFS covering the whole partition. But I am reliably told that it came from Sun Fire XXXX (where XXXX is 15 hundred or thousand or something ...
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FC multipath says “device busy ” when connecting again. SLES 11 - netapp - emulex
I have a weird issue.
sles 11
emulex FC
netapp fas 2xxx
100G LUN is ok.
Multipath enabled, multipathd and device-mapper seem to work properly.
multipath -t shows this output of the config => ...
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Troubleshooting an NFS server hanging after authenticated mount request
I need some advice on troubleshooting an NFS server problem on Scientific Linux (RHEL) 6.1. The log on the server shows that an authenticated mount request was made:
Jan 13 16:30:02 ??? ...
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NFSv3 Exporting directories with binded subdirectories
I've been scratching my head regarding this and thought I'd post it to see if I was missing anything obvious!
The scenario is this:
The server contains a very large folder called "Programmes" which ...
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USB stick unmounts itself, becomes unavailable ?!
On Centos 6, I am trying to copy some files from a Fat32 stick.
I do a "fdisk -l" then take that name and mount it with this command:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
I see the files there (I didnt count ...
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Mount an NFS share as non-root in fstab
A tomcat server that is run as root (i.e. web app using port 80) needs access to an NFS share to store uploaded files, which the root account does not have access to. Unsurprisingly, when the web ...
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How to mount a specific file system on a disk image in OSX? [migrated]
I have a disk image file containing multiple file systems, such as HFS (Journaled) in addition to Joliet or UDF. I want to mount whatever non-HFS file system is there. First, I attach the image ...
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mkfs fails complaining that: “/dev/sdb is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here”
This is Ubuntu server 11.10.
/dev/sdb is not mounted (see outputs below) and is not used by any process that I can see. Its not used for swap as well. This is a 2nd IDE drive in the server, ...
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Make folders on multiple drives appear in a single folder without using symlinks
I have directories sorted by date on different physical drives:
/mnt/drive1/2000
/mnt/drive1/2001
/mnt/drive2/2002
/mnt/drive3/2003
/mnt/drive4/2004
/mnt/drive4/2005
/mnt/drive5/2006
How can I get ...
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mkfs refuses to format device in the claim it's mounted when actually it is not
This is the problem:
root@ip-10-126-247-82:~# mkfs.ext4 /dev/xvda3
mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
/dev/xvda3 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
And this is the debugging:
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Network storage is not mounted to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
command
mount XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/store/ /mnt/test
Error
mount server reported tcp not available, falling back to udp mount: RPC:
Remote system error - Network is unreachable
The server has ...
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Accidental Disconnection of non-root Mounted USB Drive (Linux)
What is the best practice when a mounted (usb) drive is disconnected accidentally while mounted in Linux?
If you don't have physical access to the machine what's the best Linux command to run to ...
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Mount LUN from SAN at the same time in Windows and Linux
I have a mounted NTFS partition under Windows (2003) and Linux (RHEL 5.7) at the same time. The LUN resides on SAN and is presented to both servers at the same time. At first, the setup looks ok as I ...
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How to make mount_smbfs timeout faster?
I'm mounting several drives in a script. Each one is sometimes unavailable, because the PC it's on is turned off, for instance. However, mount_smbfs takes a long time to fail (around 75 seconds), even ...
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Shared Folder on Ubuntu has all ?? question marks for permissions and user
I am running Mac OSX leopard, I have an Ubuntu virtual machine. On the Ubuntu virtual machine I have my development environment setup. However I used a shared folder on My Mac to hold all of the ...
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Differences between /dev/sda and /dev/sda1
I know that /dev/sda is the raw device, and that /dev/sda1 is the partition or virtual device.
But I'm a little confused as to why the sda# only comes up some of the time, or only on certain systems. ...
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vmbuilder dangeling loop device or red herring?
When vmbuilder fails it leaks 2 loop devices. One I can use umount -l and then losetup -d to remove but the other is unremovable.
When I inspect the loop devices I get the output
/dev/loop0: ...
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double mount check with ext3
I have two nodes connected to a SAN, and I want to be able to mount an ext3 partition on node B when node A goes down.
I know I could use a shared filesystem, but for simplicity and performance I ...
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NFS and mounted subdirectories
I have two physical disks mounted as such:
sda1 -> /mnt/storage
sdb1 -> /mnt/storage/homes
I've exported /mnt/storage as an NFS share. The client sees all of the contents of /mnt/storage, ...
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VirtualBox: vboxsf filesystem wrongly detected as readonly?
I have VirtualBox (Windows XP host) running a CentOS 6.0 virtual machine, with one shared folder.
Here is the list of mounted devices:
[root@localhost ~]# mount -l
...
www on /media/sf_www type ...
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Best way to prevent the root system filling up when a mount fails?
We have an internal web server (virtualized, hosting ReviewBoard, but not super relevant) and we have a relatively consistent failure mode with failed NFS mounts causing / to fill up. Distro is Ubuntu ...
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/dev/dvd is missing on my centos 6
I just installed a minimal centos 6 through a usb dvd writer. It worked fine. But now I can't mount the dvd writer. I can't even found the /dev/dvd device. I guess a drivers is missing, but how do I ...
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How many folders you can mount on centos from windows shared folder using Samba with CIFS protocol
Currently I have an interesting problem to solve:
In short I will need to pull custom text application log files from server windows servers (Mixed environment of windows server 2008 / 2003 sp2 ...
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Turn off write barriers on ext4 whiche FS is mounted
I am doing some IO intensive DB imports that run for several days now and the IO performance has dropped tremendously over times. The DB data files (log files) are on an ext4 formatted logical volume ...
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Issue with mount.cifs in Ubuntu [while accessing Windows samba share using a localServerUser]
I am having a hard time figuring out an issue while trying to mount a windows share in Ubuntu 10.04.
Issue:
The problem is I am not able to mount a windows share using a serverLocalUser present in ...
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Multiple users writing to one Samba mount point in OSX
I have an OSX box containing a script which writes a unique file to a Samba share. The first part of the script mounts the share.
On the machine are 2 users- UserA and UserB. Each requires to run ...
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How can I mount in Linux a filesystem for one process or user only
I want to have different mounts that are seen only by a specific process or user. One use case I am thinking about is when I want to mount a unionfs or aufs that will be available for one user. So I ...
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mount --bind and moving 2 files between mounts
My application architecture requires me to mount 2 folders at the same partition and move 2 files between them. I have the following mounts:
/drive2/folder1 on /var/www/myapp/folder1 type none ...
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Update Share Permission with DFS/CIFS mount from Ubuntu to Windows Server 2008
I've a Windows 2003 Domain with DFS shares. I've successfully managed to access these shares from Ubuntu with the following fstab line:
//domain.local/foo /mnt/foo cifs ...
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Why is a MYSQL mount --bind for Jail Directory stopping after a few weeks?
I have a bit of a weird problem.
Am running mysql in a chrooted jail directory on an ubuntu 10.04 server
To get MYSQL to work properly within the jail I have to run this command:
mount --bind ...
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Mounting CIFS filesystems: error -1 opening credential file
I'm trying to permanently mount a windows server share via fstab and netfs on a CentOS 5.x box.
I can successfully mount and access the share via the following command:
mount.cifs ...
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How do I do a bind mount over a symlink?
I have a symlink:
/test
Which is pointing at a directory:
/source
I want to do a bind mount to mount /new over /test
mount -o bind /new /test
However this binds /new over /source (with /test ...
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ext2 file system and Solaris 10
I have Solaris 10 installed on computer and I have USB flash drive with ext2fs partition. I want to mount flash drive and do this:
1) Download FSWpart and FSWfsmisc packages
2) Install:
root~#gzcat ...
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mount and remount a mysql database?
Is there the equivalent of a device unmount / mount for a mysql database?
My server has around 15 databases, of which maybe 10 are rarely used, and only on demand if I have to do some fixes on apps I ...
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Why fsck without umount results in filesystem corruption?
Everyone says that you shouldn't do fsck to a disk without umount, because it will result in filesystem corruption.Actually I tried to fsck a mounted disk and the filesystem is corrupted.
That's few ...
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Two devices mounted on the same mountpoint?
I was trying to mount /dev/sdi on /mnt/mail2 and by mistake I pressed enter too early and mounted on /mnt/mail, that was already mounted with /dev/sdd.
# mount -o noatime /dev/sdi /mnt/mail
To my ...
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Force a process to update cwd after mount?
Redis is dumping snapshots to device that is rapidly running out of space.
I've tried mounting a larger device to the snapshot directory, but Redis continues to dump snapshots to the smaller device.
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Mount Second Hard Drive Debian [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to mount a second hard drive? Debian
I got a second hard drive added to one of my servers but now I have no clue how to mount it and have it recognizable by the os. ...
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How To Prevent Access To Unmounted Mount Point
Ok, I have this in fstab
//windows_mashine/Backup /backups cifs credentials=/root/.credentials,rw,_netdev,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000 0 0
I have rsnapshot in my cron which backups /etc/ and ...
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Is it possible to mount a disk device with different file system type?
I wonder why mount command takes file system type option like "mount -t type ...". It can find out device's file system type and choose related parameter. Is it possible to mount disks with a file ...
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exportfs -u not unexporting directories?
So, I'm trying to programmatically share and unshare mount points via NFS. (I realize this may not be the best approach, but I'm working in someone else's code.) On my server, I'm exporting the ...
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Point apache to NAS folder?
I have a NAS on which I have a RAID 10 array that I use as my GIT repository, I like my clients to have access to the site's builds right down to the latest commit.
My plan is like so:
____________ ...
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How to mount vfat drive on Linux with ownership other than root?
I'm running into trouble mounting an iPod on a newly upgraded Debian Squeeze.
I suspect either a protocol has changed or I've tickled a bug, which I don't know where to report.
I'm trying to mount ...
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Cannot unmount CIFS mount?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. I have a NAS using CIFS protocol. I have mounted a share. I am not using fstab at all. Running mount yields the following:
//10.0.1.38/FOO on ...
