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Mounting is the concept of attaching a file system to a computer for access.

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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Mount network drive as physical drive

Is there a way to mount a network location so that it appears as a local physical disk? e.g. \\computer\share as D: (not a network drive)
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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 (don't ask) if a solution depends on a different…
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Mount --bind persistence over reboot

I'm having trouble finding an answer for this question Does mount --bind persist over reboot? On my CentOS it looks like it doesn't, so I've placed apropriate mount --bind calls in rc.local. How can I do mount --bind to avoid rc.local scenario?
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/xvdf1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

I am unable to mount more than one EBS volumes in an EC2 instance. I have 3 EBS Volumes which are 'root-volume' leftovers from previously terminated EC2 instances(Named: /dev/xvdf1, /dev/xvdg1, /dev/xvde1). I was successfully able to mount…
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How can I map iostat device names to LVM /dev/mapper/XXX names?

mount shows mount devices like: /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00 on /var type ext3 (rw) or /dev/mapper/VolGrp_backups-backups on /mnt/backups type ext3 (rw) but iostat uses dm- notation. like dm-0, dm-1 and so on. Where can I find a way to know…
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"Stale NFS file handle" after reboot

On the server node, it is possible to access an exported folder. However, after reboots (both server and client), the folder is no longer accessible from the clients. On server # ls /data Folder1 Forlder2 and the /etc/exports file contains /data…
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How do you re-mount an ext3 fs readwrite after it gets mounted readonly from a disk error?

Its a relatively common problem when something goes wrong in a SAN for ext3 to detect the disk write errors and remount the filesystem read-only. Thats all well and good, only when the SAN is fixed I can't figure out how to re-re-mount the…
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Creating a grow-on-demand encrypted volume with LUKS

I am trying to create an encrypted, growing-as-needed file system in with Linux. I am familiar with LUKS and cryptsetup. I can create an empty file: fallocate -l 512M /root/image I can create a LUKS container on it: cryptsetup -y luksFormat…
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CIFS mount in fstab succeeds on IP, fails on hostname written in /etc/hosts

I wonder why my Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS has problems resolving a hostname from fstab. I tried to mount the following entry: //NAS-5h2-20/backuppc/ /mnt/backuppc cifs auto,user=THEUSER,password=THEPASSWORD,cifsacl,uid=109 0 0 the…
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USB drive not detected in Intel EFI shell

I must update an Intel S3420GPLC board. BIOS, BMC, FRU / SDR, the whole thing. Everything is pretty much automated in the Intel download. You're supposed to boot to the integrated EFI shell, mount the USB disk/key, and launch the startup.nsh script…
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Mount an VHD on Mac OS X

Is it possible (how) to mount an VHD file created by Windows 7 in OS X? I found some information about how to do this on linux. There is a fuse fs "vdfuse" which uses virtualbox libs to mount filesystems supported by virtualbox. However I was unable…
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Linux samba server: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -12

Server: RHEL 5.9 / smbd 3.0.33 - Clients: various, though all were using current mount.cifs (5.2) I already solved this problem, but it was such a nightmare to hunt down these error codes I felt like it needed universal documenting. Symptoms:…
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Re-mount USB device after removal on Windows

From time to time I eject a USB device, generally a memory stick or external HDD, when I think I have finished transferring data only to realise there's something else I need to do with it. Normally this involves nothing more than unplugging the…
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Mount CIFS Credentials File has Special Character

I'm having trouble mounting a share on my XenServer (5.6 FP1). From the command line I try: mount.cifs //server/share /mnt/share -o credentials=credfile The contents of credfile is: username=Administrator password=What@zR\!p3s When I run the above…
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fstab entry to mount NFS with password

i need mount at boot a disk using NFS, to mount manually from console i type: mount //192.168.0.1/NASShare -o username=administrator,password=pass /mnt/NAS To /etc/fstab i added this line: 192.168.0.1:/NASShare /mnt/NAS nfs…
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