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How can Linux mount an NFS directory, and the filesystems mounted inside it?

I have an NFS server with a directory which contains a dozen other local filesystems. I'd like to mount the top-level directory on the server, and have the Linux client automatically mount the right filesystems inside that directory, so that the…
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SSHFS: Transport endpoint not connected

There are a number of posts across the Stack Exchange sites relating to the issue in the title, but none seem to offer that great a solution. This post I guess is a shameless attempt to bump the issue (some of the others are a few years old now) and…
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Is there any way to get an AD bound linux system to mount home directories from a Windows server?

We've been experimenting with integrating linux systems into what is largely a Windows domain, with a Windows-based Active Directory server. After considerable trial and error, we have successfully configured sssd (on RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu) to…
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autofs and NFS failover - can autofs remount?

I have this scenario: 2 NFS servers with /usr/share/man as exports (just as example, it can be anything), let say server A and server B (not replicas, just 2 independent servers on the same subnet sharing the same things) both NFS servers are up…
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Fixing USB disk mount point in Fedora 18

I use Bacula for my backups, with data spooled to one of two USB drives (the other is stored off site, and they get swapped occasionally). Currently these drives are labelled BACKUP5 and BACKUP6. Until last week I was using Fedora 17, which mounts…
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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 => http://pastebin.com/bmEBhdeX When both FC are connected I…
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OpenBSD configuration: Client unable to mount via NFS using Berkeley Automounter (amd)

What I am trying to do is to have my openBSD client (OpenBSD 4.9) auto mount a Linux NFS file system (Scientific Linux 6.1). So far, I am not sure if it is configured correctly. To get things out of the way, I am able to mount nfs manually: #…
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Mac OS X automount not mounting fstab entries correctly

I'm trying to automount a Windows SMB share on Mac OS X. The first thing I tried was to put entries only in /etc/fstab: $ dgrant$ cat /etc/fstab //darrengrant@d-grant/share /pc/share smbfs nodev,nosuid This works fine using mount -a. But I…
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How to use systemd as automount for cifs when uids and paths needs to be set up on demand?

I'm trying to convert an autofs setup to systemd for user home dirs through cifs. In essence the problem is to provide the mount command with uid, gid, cruid and UNC per user account when the mount is triggered. The system is integrated with Active…
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Install packages that create home directory on automounted Linux servers

When installing certain packages, for example gitlab-runner, a directory needs to be created in /home/. If the home directories are automounted on NFS, then installation will fail. $ sudo apt install -y [package] Setting up gitlab-runner (12.1.0)…
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autofs can't mount a remote dir with sshfs on the host with deprecated key algorithm

Here is my configuration: /etc/auto.master /mnt/10 /etc/auto.10 uid=0,gid=0,--ghost /etc/auto.10 root -fstype=fuse,allow_other,follow_symlinks,ssh_command=/etc/ssh/sshpass.10.sh :sshfs\#root@10.28.0.10\:/root Because the remote device is…
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Automount ATA/SCSI drives with systemd

I am attempting to automatically mount all ATA/SCSI drives on boot using systemd and udev without utilizing /etc/fstab. This is necessary because filesystems need to be mounted on directories named for their UUIDs, and the drives are always being…
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Understanding the Linux boot process, subsystem initialization, & udev rules?

I'm creating UDEV rules for automounting external drives on a headless server, much in the same way as Gnome-VFS does automounting during a user session. I'm concerned with the rule's behavior at boot-time. There's a good chance one of these drives…
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Create a new VHD and mount it without DiskManagement window popup with Powershell

How can I create and mount a new VHDX volume without a drive letter assigned? On some servers I get the behaviour described below, on others it works like it should. So there must be a system setting which affect this behaviour besides AutoMount. I…
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boot2docker, docker mount.vboxsf: automount mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory

I am trying to automount an OS folder (Windows 8) not in the user folder into boot2docker on its init script, but run into the above error. Mounting works fine when I run it manually: sudo mount -t vboxsf mydirectory /mapped/mydirectory But when…
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