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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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Root filesystem filling up, no big files

So im a very new sysadmin, just got out of school and doing my internship. Only problem is that im the only sysadmin in the place and no one to show me the job. Anyway, it's a very small company, one CentOs server with that configuration…
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/etc/exports & mount option

In my Linux server I have the following options in /etc/exports /home *(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) And I mount from a Mac using mount -t nfs -o…
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recursively mounting ZFS filesystems?

I'm aware this more of a beginners question, but manpages, google and FreeBSD Handbook provided no solution. I'm using ZFS Version 28 on a 8.2 Stable FreeBSD and my problem is the following: When I mount a ZFS filesystem (zfs mount ) the filesystem…
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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 and list/copy/delete files via my android phone…
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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 I read UNKNOWN_SERVER: authtime 0, …
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Access files located on the underlying filesystem of an NFS mountpoint

Perhaps this is an odd request, but it's the opposite of the question detailed at: Is it possible to view the contents of an underlying NFS mount without unmounting the NFS content? I have an arrangement where Linux servers at multiple remote sites…
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Mount XFS partition with < 4k block size

I have an XFS partition with a 64k blocksize. But I can only mount it in Ubuntu 10.10 when the blocksize is the default of 4k. How can I mount a partition with the larger blocksize? This works: sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1 -b size=4k -d agcount=32 -l…
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Mounting location of non-standard file systems

I've always found it confusing on where to mount permanent non-standard filesystems in Linux. Such as a filesystem that contains company files which is shared out via Samba or NFS. It's not something that the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard has…
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Mount a tar file - not possible?

It seems one cannot mount a tar file (read only), similarly as one mounts an ISO image file. At least, I have not found any implementation. It would be useful, for example to run a find command inside. Is this really (or practically) impossible to…
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NFS: What is remote locking, and do I need it?

I'm building a somewhat minimalistic system that collects serial port data and shoves it into a logfile on an NFS mount. In an effort to reduce the system somewhat I decided to disable RPC as I couldn't see the use for it, and this resulted in the…
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Can not unmount an S3 directory mounted with s3fs-fuse

I have an s3fs-fuse "device" mounted at /mnt/s3. I want to unmount it so that I can remount it with the mp_umask flag so that chroot will work properly. The command should be: fusermount -u /mnt/s3 Unfortunately the result is: fusermount: failed to…
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Why have multiple partitions on a windows server?

With my IT outfit, we have templates to deploy servers with a dinky C drive/partition (10GB) and a larger D drive/partition. Why do this? Windows (at least until recently and at that minimally) has no real use of dynamic mount points in general…
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Automount smb drive on OSX

I have been trying to achieve smb drive automounting on OS Sierra but I am unable to do it properly. I hacked /etc/fstab which seems to work on this OS to the point that I am unable to force it to change ownership or chmod so other users than root…
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Can't unmount a loop backed file but there's no open files?

On linux, I have a file that I've mounted using the -o loop option. I want to unmount it. However it tells me that device is busy. However by doing lsof | grep pathofimagefile I get no results. And yet I can't unmount!
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Can't mount samba share, but can access using smbclient

I have a network share on Windows server in my local network. I can access this share using smbclient on my Ubuntu 13.10 (with installed cifs-utils package) desktop like this: smbclient \\\\192.168.5.2\\source -W DOMAIN -U…
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