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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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Files showing in smbclient but not smbmount

I have a samba folder that I try and access through smbclient, and I can browse it just fine. However, mounting it through smbmount, all the folders under the share are empty. I can list the folders directly under the share fine, but they all appear…
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MacOS creates a new mount on AFP path calls

following scenario: In my webapp, my customers are using Firefox as target browser. They have the need to open afp:// folders via Javascript. To make a long story short, this really works. You need to setup Firefox with about:config and set the…
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filesystem on shared host mounted read-only

Lately on a shared host, the filesystem containing my home folder was mounted read-only for 45 minutes to 1 hour. The technical support did not know about the outage, evaded direct questions. After a bit more than three days I obtained the…
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Is it possible to mount NFS volume serving from FreeBSD server via SSH tunnel on Mac OS X?

I heard that NFS share via SSH tunnel is impossible on Mac OS X: http://biowiki.org/MountingNFSThroughSSHTunnel I have been trying 2 days to make it, but I failed. Is it really impossible? Or what should I have to do?
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Mounting 2.5" SSD in Antec Atlas 550's 3.5" bay

Just got some new SSDs to add to my servers, unfortunately there doesn't appear to be anywhere to actually mount them. The cases are Antec Atlas 550 mid-tower server cases. The problem is that the 3.5" bays are intended for 3.5" hard drives…
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How to mount a second hard drive? Debian

hey, well I mounted my hard drive to var/www/disk2/ but obviously since the first hard drive is on / all the files on var/www/disk2/ are going to count towards the space on the the first hard drive no? Cause that's what happened when I uploaded a…
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mount and sync non english folder & file names

I'm trying to rsync a folder who's name contains non-english characters it breaks the whole rsync, how can I copy a folder even if they don't have english characters in it?
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What service to use to backup 100+ gigs of data as mounted block-level storage?

I'm looking for an online solution to mount a drive as block-level storage and perform backups on it. I'd use S3 for this, but it's not block level. I'd use rackspace for this, but again, it's not block level. Dreamhost has a ridiculous amount of…
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How do I know what arguments were used to mount

I have a linux system with something mounted to /dev/sdb1. How do I know what command was used to mount it?
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creating and mounting a logical volume

I don't know if my question makes any sense. I have never tried this sort of thing before. What I would like to do is create one logical volume spanning multiple physical partitions like /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2, etc on a Linux machine and mount this…
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Unmounted root partition

My server running Debian lenny has just had a power cut recently and its come back up with the root partition in read only mode. I tried to remount the filesystem in read write mode with mount -n -o remount,rw / which then gave the output mount:…
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Failing SSHFS connection drags down the system

From time to time my sshfs mount fails. All programs using the mount freeze when it happens. I can't even ls anything or use nautilus. Is there a way to find out what's the cause and how to handle it? I've noticed regular SSH sessions to the server…
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Can't Mount Remote Share From RHEL 6

I'm trying to upgrade some Linux systems to RHEL 6, but I cannot mount the home directories. I'm using EXT4 for the RHEL 6 system and EXT3 on the RHEL 5 server, which I'm mounting the directory from. I can't just use the mount command; I have to…
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Cached uid on autofs filesystems

We have some issues with homedirs on our NFS server (SUN S7110). When we change the owner of a file it seems the old uid is cached. The ls -l still shows the old uid. On other systems which mount the same homedir the has the new uid. Is there a…
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How mount several directories on one mount point? (e.g. SD card)

I have a plug computer with 512MB internal storage (NAND) and a SD card slot with an 8GB SD card, currently. The plug computer runs Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty), and I plan to use it mainly as a webserver. As I have limited storage internally I want to move…
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