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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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libvirt upgrade caused vms to not see drives (boot media not found)

I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04.1 and now libvirt (via open nebula) successfully runs vms but they aren't finding the 2 drives (specifically, the boot drive). One is "hd" the other is "cdrom". The machine boots but fails and displays something like "boot…
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Mounting NAS drive with cifs using credentials file through fstab does not work

I can mount the drive in the following way, no problem there: mount -t cifs //nas/home /mnt/nas -o username=username,password=pass\!word,uid=1000,gid=100,rw,suid However if I try to mount it via fstab I get the following error: //nas/home /mnt/nas…
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Installing Windows Server 2012 Preview on an Amazon EC2 instance

Is there any way of doing a clean install on an Amazon EC2 instance. I have the bootable installation media stored in an EBS volume. How can I boot from that volume? And do I have to use an automated install (install script) then, since I won't be…
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Mount point with different owner/group permissions?

We have a media server where all of our audio, etc. is served out of. A few different servers mount a certain directory on the media server. I noticed though, that depending on which server I'm looking at the files from, the owner/group is…
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How to mount together a filesystem tree for use in openvz?

I want my vm to use a filesystem tree consisting of multiple filesystem mounted together: mount /var/lib/vz/private// mount /var/lib/vz/private//home/ Using this layout vzctl start fails since vzquota can not work on…
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Using NDMP as an alternative to CIFS mount

I have a weird but interesting use-case. I use CIFS to mount shares from a File Server (NetApp, EMC etc) to an application server (win/linux server where my application runs). My application needs to process each of the file from the shares that I…
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Linux: don't use file system cache under a directory

For a PHP website I'm monitoring, I need to see what files are being used each time the browser makes a request. I thought of using find . -type f -amin 1. With that I get all files which were read in the last minute (it's a developing server so…
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Faster file writing on sshfs mounted directory

Here is the following scenario: I have server1 and server2 and using sshfs I mount a directory from server2 on server1, let's say /mnt. Now, if I try to unpack a 50K files archive on server1:/mnt it takes 13 mins to complete while doing the same on…
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Backing up file moves with rsync + tar

I have a mirroring system in place with rsync and it works well. However, moving a file causes it to be transferred again in its entirety. Given what I know about the rsync algorithm's rolling checksum, wouldn't it be possible to: tar all the…
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Can't mount after EBS snapshot and restore on Ubuntu 12.04

I'm trying to backup and restore an EBS volume on EC2. So this is what I'm doing: ec2-create-snapshot -d ec2-create-volume --snapshot -z us-east-1a ec2-run-instances ami-82fa58eb -n 1 -g default -k…
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What are the pre-requisites to NFS Mount in between two servers?

I understand port 111 and port 2049 needs to be accessible; but what are the other pre-requisite that's needed to be present before being able to NFS Mount? We have tried NFS Mount using "mount -v -t nfs : " and still there's no response or reply…
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Mount network folder in Vista Home Premium

I need to mount network public folder(s) on logon in Windows Vista Home Premium under specific letter. Is this possible in Vista HP and how? Thanks
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Recover Linux vmdk VMware file

I am running Xubuntu 12.04 inside VMware Workstation 7. Long story short, I had created a restore script for another PC that wiped the full 512 byte MBR, ran fdisk to create some partitions, and then restored them through tools like partimage.…
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Accidentally moved FUSE mounted mount point, not cannot unmount. Any option besides reboot?

I mounted a disk image using a few different FUSE modules and then subsequently renamed the parent directory. The mounts have disappeared from the mtab and now the OS refuses to unmount them. fusermount -u mnt returns: fusermount: entry for…
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tmpfs changes size on restart

I have a tmpfs mount defined in my /etc/fstab with a size of 1024m, but when I restart the server it sizes itself to 5.9G. If I run mount -o remount /dev/shm, the size will correct itself to 1G. But it'll revert the next time the server is…
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