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Birth time of files are missing if file is created in a logical volume with size less than 512 MB
It is not Issue with LVM. It is Issue with Ext4.
When the filesystem size is less than 512 MB , Ext4 uses Default Inode Size = 128 Bytes , which is not enough to store the "extended metadata"...
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Remounting tmpfs with a different size during boot
I have a default entry [for /tmp ] in /etc/fstab which is being overwritten by the generator. Afterwards I'm executing sudo -o remount /tmp to remount the tmpfs with the correct size. This seems to ...
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How do I mount the OS (system) disk from the UEFI shell?
A little late, but just came across this question, when having the same issue. This should mount all disks
Shell> map -r
Shell> fs0:
fs0:\>
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Mount is unable to allocate memory
The problem isn't with unallocatable memory. Check syslog for better error reporting. Did you give an workdir? I think I got this error when I didn't provide this option (must be located on the same ...
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How to mount an old disk back to the RHEL VM without reboot?
Linux LVM VGs should be deactivated and exported prior to doing work on their member PV disks. Unmounting a file system is not sufficient, there's a layer in between these.
For completeness, it is ...
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How to make NFS server start if a disk mountpoint export fails to mount?
Use mountpoint or mp in /etc/exports :
mountpoint=path
mp
This option makes it possible to only export a directory if it has successfully been mounted. If no path is given (e.g. mountpoint or mp) ...
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How to make NFS server start if a disk mountpoint export fails to mount?
I'm actually surprised that NFS fails to start when a disk is not mounted. In a good way though. Because an unmounted disk appears simply as an empty directory, and exporting an empty directory ...
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Is /proc/mounts file depracated?
Is /proc/mounts file depracated? ... I can't find any official documentation ...
According proc(5) — Linux manual page
/proc/mounts
Before Linux 2.4.19, this file was a list of all the filesystems ...
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Why is /etc/mtab a relative symlink
Using absolute symlinks may be problematic, especially when mounting into non default locations.
opensuse:/mnt/etc # ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jan 30 20:07 absolute_mtab -> /proc/self/...
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Mounting Samba share to Docker container
It turnes out, that the problem in fact originates from SELinux policies. Specifically, the podman container process (labeled as container_t) could not access the samba share directory (labeled as ...
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How do I do 'mount --bind' in /etc/fstab?
In Addition to rely on an always existing drive, if you would use this entry to mount an external drive, the boot would fail while the drive is not connected.
In Addtion to the solve this, there is a ...
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Properly mounting a Samba share in Ubuntu/Linux
Use the multiuser mount option. This makes SMB mounts work a bit like NFS mounts, where each user will need to provide their own credentials before being able to access the mounted share.
That is, ...
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Can't connect cifs share : 128 key has been revoked
Found. running command dmesg :
[480378.875310] CIFS: Attempting to mount \\server\share
[480378.879835] CIFS: Status code returned 0xc0000072 STATUS_ACCOUNT_DISABLED
[480378.879862] CIFS: VFS: \\...
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ZFS list - root mounted twice?
Having a mountpoint set do not mean the dataset is mounted.
Try zfs get mounted -r rpool, and you’ll see that only rpool/ROOT/ubuntu_ynfa9e is mounted.
I do not have any sandbox right now, but I’ll be ...
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Is it possible to relocate the mount point of a btrfs subvolume within the same root?
Yes, it is possible to relocate a Btrfs subvolume within the same root without copying the data. Btrfs provides the ability to perform subvolume relocation using the Btrfs subvolume set command with ...
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umount of logical volume failing during shutdown
Thanks to @Prem for pointing out that reverse order has to be maintained during umount.
This issue could be fixed by delegating responsibility to systemd.
systemd-fstab-generator is capable of ...
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umount a bind source won't work, and device out of space
The problem
/mnt/src is not taking space but you should unmount it to not confuse some tools, including tools doing backup. For example lsblk chooses to display the first matching mount and displays /...
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Change ZFS mountpoint property without remounting
In newer versions of OpenZFS, there is the zfs set -u flag.
zfs set -u mountpoint=/data-old zpool/data1
zfs set -u mountpoint=/data zpool/data2
Now the properties are changed, but nothing is changed ...
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Cannot mount an existing EBS on AWS
My problem seems to be the new server I tried to mount the secondary EBS volume to was from the same Amazon Linux image
This lead to both disks having the same UUID
[ec2-user@ip-172-31-2-42 ~]$ lsblk -...
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