Questions tagged [mount]

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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Troubleshoot NFS mount not working after reboot

I created a mountpoint and an entry in the fstab nas:/server1 /nas/server1 nfs rw,_netdev 0 0 This should try to mount the nfs during startup; but it might fail. That is why I also enabled the netfs daemon: >sudo…
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mount a kvm qcow2 file

so i have a kvm image that i'm trying to mount: [0c79dafb-abb7-4714-9a0a-4e16f0b305e7]# tree . ├── console.log ├── disk ├── disk.info └── libvirt.xml [0c79dafb-abb7-4714-9a0a-4e16f0b305e7]# qemu-img info disk image: disk file format: qcow2 virtual…
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Am I wasting half my disk space by not mounting a volume?

I inherited a Debian server from the previous sysadmin who left, without much documentation. I'm not a sysadmin, but I guess for now I'll have to be, and I'm trying to understand what disks and volumes/partitions there are on these machines, but LVM…
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NFS mount internal error

I have a server that I use for NFS share. 4 servers use it without a problem. I configured a new server and that can't mount. I get this error mount.nfs: internal error In the logfile of the client: nfs: server 192.168.1.100 not responding,…
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Can I Mount an ISO Image Served over FTP / HTTP During the Kickstart %post Process of a RHEL 7 / CentOS 7?

I'm attempting to customize a RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 kickstart (ks.cfg) file, which is loaded via PXE booting to mount an ISO file that is accessible via FTP / HTTP. I understand Busybox tools are available during the kickstart process, and can be added…
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Mounting an SSD

I have recently got a 'dedicated GAME server' from OVH and I've been promised 2x480GB SOFT SSDs. However, df -h shows this output: root@dedi:/home/shavit# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/root 20G 4.2G 14G 24%…
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CentOS: How to group two partitions to one document root?

i have 2 partitions in my cloud server. And i want to group two of these become one as Apache document root. Because i have some websites and data is around 80GB. Does it possible? /dev/vda1 92891468 1475352 86681236 2% / devtmpfs …
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Cannot access nfs share

On my Debian 8.4 system, I would like to run a postgres database. The data should reside on an NFS mounted folder. # cat /etc/fstab xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/volume1/srvPostgres on /var/lib/postgresql type nfs…
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Working off mounted drive - Linux

Say I have the following mount points: /dev/sda1 on / /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/sdb1 sda is my primary hard disk drive. sdb is a second disk drive. This might be a silly question, but does it make any difference to performance (copy, write ect..) if I work…
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How can we run a logon script to mount drives UAC?

We have a small environment where we are setting up mountable drives using a login.bat file, reason why we are doing this because our script first tests whether the folder is created for that user, and then if so makes a folder, then finally it…
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Mount bind not taking affect in fstab - Centos 6

I am using this line in fstab to bind /sftp/feeds/incoming to /var/www/online/public_html/feeds /sftp/feeds/incoming /var/www/online/public_html/feeds none bind 0 0 But it is not taking affect. If I use: mount --bind…
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Trying to clone one disk to another but one starts up with a parition and the other doesn't

I've got an Amazon EC2 m1.small that I am trying to migrate over to t2.small. I'm aware that because of the virtualization type being different on both types that there is no direct upgrade path. Someone over at…
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Mount partition as read-only until reboot

Is it possible on Linux to mount a partition as read-only at boot time and make sure it cannot be re-mounted as read-write until next boot / power off?
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unable to mount XFS after rescue

I am facing strange problem with XFS file system. Below is the exact scenario: I'd a corrupt 2 TB disk with XFS (I/O error), so that decide to rescue data from old disk to new disk. I'd run ddrescue to rescue data to new disk. ddrescue finished…
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Get free capacity of an ocfs2 volume

I want to get free capacity of an ocfs2 volume (ocfs2-tools version 1.6), which is not mounted any where. Is there way to do that. Thanks
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