Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

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.

1212 questions
0
votes
3 answers

How to change mount point for /home

I am using CentOS 5.8 x64bit I have all my users directories in the /home/ directory, the drive which CentOS is installed along with /home is on /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00 And its getting full I have 12% left. I predict that it will be full…
SamCulley
  • 105
  • 4
  • 14
0
votes
1 answer

Can't re-mount existing RAID10 on Ubuntu

I saw similar questions, but didn't find what solution to my problem. After power-cut, one of RAID10 (4 disks were) appears to be malfunctioning. I make tha array active one, but can not mount it. Always the same error: mount: you must specify the…
Zoran
  • 161
  • 3
  • 10
0
votes
2 answers

How to set up sshfs to use www-data

I have 2 Debian systems, prod1 and prod2, with their respective users, prod1 and prod2 as well. I want to setup an sshfs with autofs to have a directory on prod1 in the /home/prod1/ that the user www-data could use independently on one server or the…
Bastian
  • 283
  • 3
  • 16
0
votes
1 answer

VirtualBox Shared Folder encoding issue

I'm using Ubuntu in Virtualbox and have a shared folder mounted to Virtualbox which i'm accessing inside Ubuntu. The problem is, that when i'm editing and saving some files from shared folder in Windows it's getting some strange symbols at the end…
Somebody
  • 364
  • 1
  • 6
  • 17
0
votes
3 answers

Problem mounting an NFS drive using autofs on CentOS5.3

I'm having a lot of difficulty with this seemingly simple problem. All I want to do is mount an NFS directory over a private network. I've checked the exportfs from the exporting side and it is reporting correctly that it's exporting the desired…
Evan
  • 177
  • 2
  • 8
0
votes
1 answer

file copy error from system to cifs mount

When coping a file greater than 64kB from an Ubuntu server to a CIFS mounted windows share, most of the data is copied, but it seems the last chunk doesn't get copied. The size doesn't match, and the md5 check sums don't match. I have plenty of…
dwpriest
  • 1
  • 4
0
votes
3 answers

can't mount /dev/vg00/var

I'm trying to access data on a hard drive using a rescue system. I've mounted the root partition as so: mount /dev/md1 /mnt If I do cat /mnt/etc/fstab I see /dev/vg00/var /var xfs So I tried: mount /dev/vg00/usr /mnt/usr/ But I get the…
Jorge Bellido
  • 21
  • 7
0
votes
3 answers

How do you mount a RAID1 disk as a normal disk

I'd like to copy data off a disk (EXT2) that's part of a RAID1 mirror (Linux software RAID). When I try to do a manual mount of the disk is complains that it's part of an array. Is there a way to mount the disk in a ro mode without having to create…
Marinus
  • 227
  • 1
  • 3
  • 10
0
votes
1 answer

fstab mount after network initialization

I'm automatically mounting a NFS with fstab. Sometimes the mount fails because the hostname of the NFS mount cannot be resolved (getaddrinfo failed). I'm assuming that this happens because the network initialization is slower than the mounts. Is…
Philip
  • 165
  • 3
  • 13
0
votes
3 answers

Bind 2 FTP drives into one

Mounting an FTP drive can be easily be done with curlftpfs in Ubuntu 10. Also, there would be no problem to mount two or more drives. e.g. /var/ftpdrive1/ /var/ftpdrive2/ Question: is there a way to bind /var/ftpdrive1/ and /var/ftpdrive2/ to…
enloz
  • 291
  • 1
  • 2
  • 5
0
votes
3 answers

Extending virtual servers space by mounting a hard drive located in a different server

Is it somehow possible to extend one's webspace by connecting to a server which has more space? Lets say I have a remote server with a small disk, and a local server with plenty of free disk space. Can I somehow permanently mount the space on my…
cherrun
  • 749
  • 2
  • 11
  • 17
0
votes
1 answer

Bind mount points populating very quickly

I've got more and more bind mount points: http://pastebin.com/susp4ryL ls -l /dev/root lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 mar 7 19:24 /dev/root -> /dev/md1 How to fix this ? It really slows down yum. I'm on CentOS 5.7 64-bit, latest default kernel…
Spacedust
  • 568
  • 5
  • 13
  • 28
0
votes
2 answers

Home directory mounted read only file system

I'm using Ubuntu server 9.04 My home directory mounded Read only filesystem $ ls Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop README.txt $ cat README.txt THIS DIRECTORY HAS BEEN UNMOUNTED TO PROTECT YOUR DATA. From the graphical desktop, click on: "Access…
freddiefujiwra
  • 1,667
  • 5
  • 25
  • 34
0
votes
1 answer

USB Image Mounting Executable

So I've used Daemon tools before to mount ISO images but I was wondering if anyone knows of a lightweight IOS mounter executable that I can put on a thumbdrive and run from any windows device without having to install it. The goal is to stick…
user109309
  • 11
  • 2
0
votes
1 answer

Mounting filesystem on logical volume inside virtual whole-disk image

I have tried to mount a virtual disk image on my Fedora host using the command qemu-nbd -c /dev/ndb0 rawhide.img and then detecting the LVM logical volumes and mounting the one I wanted. Obviously, the virtual machine is not running - I'm not…
Robin Green
  • 451
  • 3
  • 11
1 2 3
…
80 81