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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 Remote Partition Locally?

I have a Webserver, and I would like to move some of the static files for the web application off to a remote server, yet still have them accessible. Is there a way to have (Server A) mount a folder from (Server B) as if it were a local drive? Or…
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To salvage data from unresponsive VMWare Infrastructure Web Access Virtual Machine's VMDK file (Win 2003)

Similar to my previous question Cannot delete unresponsive machine on VMWare Infrastructure Web Access on Windows 2003 host and now YET another virtual machine has stopped at 95% (while starting up) for no just reason. Unfortunately in this case…
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Can't detect my NTFS partition from Finder (Leopard)

From Leopard, I created a new NTFS partition for Windows using BootCamp. Everything went fine : Windows 7 was installed correctly and its partition (C:) showed up in Leopard's Finder. Then, from Windows 7, I created a new ntfs partition (D:) for my…
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Mounting cron configuration files - is it possible?

I'm running a few CentOS servers on EC2. We're working to run them all from one image and mount all the variant configuration files from persistent storage. We just started mounting cron directories from persistent storage, and I'm finding that…
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Mounting Linux volume on second disk

The disk on my Fedora 12 box was starting to fail, so I bought a new disk and installed Fedora 15. I kept the old disk connected, which still sort of works, hoping to copy over some important files. In Fedora 15, the "Disk Utility" application lets…
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How to install Tomcat to a nonstandard directory in Linux

Hey all -- apologies if this is a n00b question, I am a super n00b at Linux administration. So, I'm on Amazon EC2, using Amazon Linux, which I believe is Redhat-derived. I have an EBS volume mounted to /mnt/vol5 and I want to install Tomcat there. …
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db2 cannot restore from mounted directory?

db2 restore db databaseName from Directory doesn't work (hangs there and does nothing, no error, no time out) for me if the Directory is a nfs mounted directory. Any idea how to make it work? db2 v 9.7 mounted from / to SuSe Update I db2 restore…
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What is the best way to share a folder over the Internet using OSX 10.6 Server?

I have a new OSX Snow Leopard server and would like to be able to have other Macs mount drives from this server over the Internet. FTP is not good enough for sharing files because we want the files to be updated without having to re-upload them. I…
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Mounting a partition from a raw DD image file of a physical disk

I have a DD image taken from the raw HDD image (/dev/sdb). This image file contains an XFS filesystem that I need to mount. It is much too large to restore to disks (2.6TB img file) so I would like to mount it using loopback. However, the partition…
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Mounting image files created for iSCSI target daemon

I have recently installed a iSCSI environment on a Ubuntu Server. In this system i have used images created with the following command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/storage/lun1.img bs=1024k count=20000 as seen on:…
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Map eSata interface directly to NFS share

I'm not sure if this is possible, but I want to mount a nfs share (as a client) and have the motherboard external eSata bound to the nfs share. This likely sounds bogus, but is what I have is a media player that can playback media over eSata, and…
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Avoid write on a mounted loopback device to be propagated

I have a device that mounts its root file system using NFS. On my NFS server I have a file representing the device's file system, namely target.ext2, which I mount on the appropriate /export directory. I would like the device to be able to write on…
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Samba mount isn't following a symlink

I am running two servers and wish to mount a directory on one from the other. For various reasons, I wish to use Samba (smbfs) rather than NFS. ServerA mounts ServerB with this in the fstab: //ServerB/sambashare /mount/point smbfs…
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Ubuntu 10.10 Live CD - How to copy files to external USB drive (no permissions?)

I booted up an Ubuntu 10.10 live CD and plugged in an external USB hard drive. It brings up the drive contents and shows all the files, but it won't let me copy files to the external USB drive. It says Error while copying The folder ... cannot be…
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CentOS: What does the mount-Command and why is it necessary before setfacl

I need to use the setfacl-command for the first time. On centos.org they say, that you first need to mount the file (http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-acls.html). What does the mount-command actually do, and why do I need…
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