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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Change Hard Drive Mounted Location Debian
I just realized my hard drive is mounted to the wrong directory, how many I change the directory in which it is mounted?
Thanks!
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Linux. Different backup drive each week to same mount point
We have an external drive that our server backs up to nightly. It is mounted to /snapshots. We are planning to swap this disk out each week. The problem is that one drive comes up as /dev/sdc and the ...
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Debian server loses /var mounting point
We have a server running Debian squeeze and randomly (once a month, more or less) the /var partition loses it's mounting point, so /var becomes a folder on / partition and main services start to fail.
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Mount users' Windows home folders from RHEL6
I've just set up AD authentication with my RHEL6 servers (using SSSD/LDAP/Kerberos). Now I'd like users' Windows home folders to be mounted automatically when they log in to one of the Linux machines.
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Attempting to mount drive in Ubuntu Server 11.10
I have a machine running Ubuntu Server 11.10. There are two internal SATA drives and I had previously had them both mounted and accessible. The machine has recently been moved and after starting it up ...
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How to set up sshfs to use www-data
I have 2 Debian systems, prod1 and prod2, with their respective users, prod1 and prod2 as well. I want to setup an sshfs with autofs to have a directory on prod1 in the /home/prod1/ that the user ...
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Gluster with s3ql mounted brick?
I am trying to test run Gluster with a volume consisting of two local bricks, the first being a plain directory and the second being a s3ql based mount.
Having just the plain directory as a unique ...
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VirtualBox Shared Folder encoding issue
I'm using Ubuntu in Virtualbox and have a shared folder mounted to Virtualbox which i'm accessing inside Ubuntu.
The problem is, that when i'm editing and saving some files from shared folder in ...
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Centos - fstab - mount keeps changing
I've had this linux machine running for a few years now, no problems etc. Very happy.
Last night I did some updates and when I booted up this morning my dual screens were screwy so I updated the ...
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using chained automount to mount home directory
I have set up two directories mounted with automount (via LDAP):
in the /home directory automount is configured to mount
* -fstype=bind :/network/srv/home/&
in the /network directory one ...
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Create directory before binding via /etc/fstab
I have this line in my /etc/fstab:
/mnt/tmp /tmp none bind,nobootwait
On EC2 however, /mnt may be lost during restarts causing the mount to fail due to non existent /mnt/tmp. So is there a ...
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How do I get `mount` in ESXi 5.0?
I'm using ESXi 5.0 for a nonprofit I'm volunteering for, and I'd like to use ghettoVCB to regularly back up the VMs to USB storage. So far I've been able to see the USB devices in /dev and by using ...
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mount using insecure ports for nfs
Title says it. mount is occasionally making NFS mount/unmount requests from insecure ports. I believe the issue is being caused by all of the secure ports being stuck in TIME_WAIT after periods of ...
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file copy error from system to cifs mount
When coping a file greater than 64kB from an Ubuntu server to a CIFS mounted windows share, most of the data is copied, but it seems the last chunk doesn't get copied. The size doesn't match, and the ...
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Improving SSHFS performance when reflecting changes in host directory
I have an SSHFS mount from a Ubuntu Server VM guest, mounting a host Mac OS X directory. Changes made directly in the Mac OS X host directory take approx 5 - 10 seconds to reflect in the Ubuntu Server ...
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How do I disable NFSv3/v2 connections to a FreeBSD NFSv4 server?
I am using a Kubuntu 11.10 client with a FreeBSD 9.0 server.
The server has the following lines in /etc/rc.conf
nfs_server_enable="YES"
nfsv4_server_enable="YES"
nfsuserd_enable="YES"
and the ...
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can't mount /dev/vg00/var
I'm trying to access data on a hard drive using a rescue system. I've mounted the root partition as so:
mount /dev/md1 /mnt
If I do
cat /mnt/etc/fstab
I see
/dev/vg00/var /var xfs
So ...
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encryptfs auto-mounting script
I'm trying to make a script, that creates and mounts encrypted directory using ecryptfs(on ssh logons(with passphrase sent via pipe) and by some other scripts). I know about ecryptfs-setup-private ...
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How to mount encrypted volume at login (Ubuntu 12.04, pam_mount)
I'm trying to get pam_mount working on Ubuntu 12.04.
I have /dev/sda1 (encrypted partition) with /dev/dm-1 (ext4 formatted) inside it.
Should ~/.pam_mount.conf.xml be trying to mount /dev/sda1 or ...
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How to mount a windows administrative share on linux via SMB
I'm currently trying to mount a windows shared drive under linux.
The machine is using windows 7 and by default it shares all windows drives if you login as an administrator. I've been able to login ...
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bind (hardlink) one directory to many places
I need to "bind" one directory to many chrooted places. I know that I can do "mount -o bind", but this requires special processing on startup each time (run the mount).
Is there a way to do it on the ...
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How do you mount a RAID1 disk as a normal disk
I'd like to copy data off a disk (EXT2) that's part of a RAID1 mirror (Linux software RAID).
When I try to do a manual mount of the disk is complains that it's part of an array.
Is there a way to ...
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Mounting NAS share: Bad Address
I have a Linux storage device (QNAP TS-459U), and 'massive1' folder shared. I need to mount this share on my Debian server. They are connected by regular patch cord. The Debian server has two network ...
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NFS (with Kerberos) mount failing due to “Server not found in Kerberos database” error
When running:
`sudo mount -t nfs4 -o sec=krb5 sol.domain.com:/ /mnt`
I get this error on the client:
mount.nfs4: access denied by server while mounting sol.domain.com:/
And on the server syslogs
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How to instuct “mount” to leave directory permissions untouched?
I create /mnt/foo directory as a normal use and then sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda5 /mnt/foo. Owner of the directory is changed to root.root. How can I instruct mount to leave ownership unchanged?
ps. ...
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How can ShadowProtect SBS backup to alternating external drives?
I am trying to configure ShadowProtect SBS (v. 4.1.5.10129) in Windows Server 2003 SBS to backup my server hard drives to two alternating external drives. What I want is to be able to swap one drive ...
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Backup data from RAID 1 disk out of its server
I'm facing with a pretty easy problem in my opinion.
I've extracted a working disk from a RAID1 and I'm looking to copy only data (FS and RAID configuration doesn't matter) into another location ...
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How do I mount a raid disk
So I screwed up my grub.conf file on a CentOS system and I'm in recovery right now (it's only a test dedicated server). My disks are /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 (RAID 1). Now I need to mount /dev/sda1 and ...
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Mount remote partition using perl scripts
I am trying to mount remote server partition to put backup. I already have th perl script to take backup of data. I trying to add the mount command in the script. The below is the script, Please guide ...
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fstab mount after network initialization
I'm automatically mounting a NFS with fstab. Sometimes the mount fails because the hostname of the NFS mount cannot be resolved (getaddrinfo failed). I'm assuming that this happens because the network ...
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Mounted NFS directory not writable by Apache / PHP
Need some help here with NFS. Here's what I have (all servers running CentOS 5.6 with SELinux):
172.17.20.1 - Primary server with static IP. Varnish redirects requests to the web servers.
172.17.20.2 ...
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Cygwin and /etc/fstab.d/$USER
I'm unable to see mounts defined in /etc/fstab.d/$USER without running a mount --all command. I'd like to see them whenever I open the bash shell.
Here's what I'm doing:
echo ...
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Error while mounting reiser4 filesystem
I'm using Debian 6.03 (2.6.32-5-amd64) with LVM configured. For testing I created testfs logical volume and formatted it in reiser4 filesystem. But when I try:
# mount /dev/lv-group/testfs /mnt
it ...
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Same nfs mount options, different output
I have 2 OEL5.5(RHEL5.5) servers.
I'm trying to figure out why when I run mount command I get different outputs.
Server1 has the following line in /etc/fstab/
10.11.0.61:/vol/exports/ /exports ...
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Bind 2 FTP drives into one
Mounting an FTP drive can be easily be done with curlftpfs in Ubuntu 10.
Also, there would be no problem to mount two or more drives. e.g.
/var/ftpdrive1/
/var/ftpdrive2/
Question: is there a way ...
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Extending virtual servers space by mounting a hard drive located in a different server
Is it somehow possible to extend one's webspace by connecting to a server which has more space?
Lets say I have a remote server and a home server with plenty of free disk space. Can I somehow ...
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Secure way to mount a password protected cifs share in mac
I'm maintaining a heterogeneous network of mac and linux so I decided to create a little perl script to unify mounting strategies across machines.
Actually, I already have a working perl script, ...
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How do I pass credential file to mount.cifs?
I'm maintaining a heterogeneous network of mac and linux so I decided to create a little perl script to unify mounting strategies across machines.
The current implementation in linux is in /etc/fstab ...
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Bind mount points populating very quickly
I've got more and more bind mount points: http://pastebin.com/susp4ryL
ls -l /dev/root
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 mar 7 19:24 /dev/root -> /dev/md1
How to fix this ? It really slows down yum.
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How do I forcibly unmount when I'm getting stale nfs file handles?
Got myself into a tricky situation. Have aufs mounted at /mnt/1
aufs on /mnt/1 type aufs (rw,relatime,si=daab1cec23213eea)
I can't unmount the thing:
sudo umount -f /mnt/1
umount2: Stale NFS file ...
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NFS. Non-root mount requests
I'm trying to make my NFS server allow non-root mount requests.
Server: Debian Squeeze, kernel 2.6.32-5-686
What I have now: root (or sudoes) can mount NFS file systems, but regular users can't.
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What's wrong with my mount? I am trying to mount and allow read-write
/etc/fstab
/srv/www/test.com /home/user/test.com auto nouser,auto,rw,sync 0 0
I am getting the following error: mount: you must specify the filesystem type. Could someone please give me some ...
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Why do mounted file systems without ACL options still respect POSIX ACLs?
According to mount, the file system does not have the ACL option:
$ mount
/dev/mapper/sys_vg-root_lv on / type ext3 (rw)
However, I could still setfacl and getfacl on this file system. Perhaps I'm ...
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Make /home /tmp noexec nodev without a separate patition
I need to change some mount options for parts of the root filesystem, such as /tmp /var and /home (add nodev,nosuid and quota), but I haven't ability to make a separate partition and I have not enough ...
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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 ...
