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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 secondary partition on Hyper-V Server guest

My Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 box has 2 partitions, one for the OS and a second for data. Can I configure my guest virtual machines to have access to that data partition? Preferably so that the guest OS sees it as a physical drive, not a mounted network…
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mount -a asks for password with root user

I have set up the cron job at reboot like @reboot sleep 20;mount -a BUt i have received he email that it asks for password how can i supply password with mount
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How to serve dynamic pages outside the document root?

I'm trying to setup a simple web app and I'm having some difficulties. Here's how I have it setup : /srv/www/application <-- python code /srv/www/public_html <-- document root I want Apache to serve everything in public_html if he can find it,…
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Mounting 200 cifs mount points eats all the CPU. Is it correct?

Abstract: I need a way to monitor cifs mountpoints and I don't know how. Hello, I have a virtual machine with 2 CPU and 1Gb RAM running debian 5. It mounts some of our users cifs shared folders, 200 cifs mountpoints approx. There is an apache server…
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Reinstalling GRUB on RAID array

I have a computer running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop x64. I just bought another tb drive and wanted to combine my two drives using RAID 0. I have a MSI 890GXM-G65 motherboard and decided to use their built in RAID support. The last step of setting up RAID…
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VMware Workstation executes nonexisting and outdated File

I execute a command line program from a VM (VMware 7.1.1) with Windows XP. The executable file is located on the host machine. If i start a command line in the VM, using a drive mounted as .host\SharedFolders i see the…
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Rackspace CloudFiles and JungleDisk performance vs The Planet CloudStorage

I am considering using either Rackspace CloudFiles with JungleDisk or The Planet's CloudStorage for a webapp that needs fast read performance to serve very large video files. The application uses some authentication backends that x-forward the…
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How to remount unmounted USB drive in Windows?

How to remount USB drive in Windows after it was unmounted, without unplugging and replugging again?
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Windows share mounted on Linux fails after some time

I have a Windows share mounted on a Linux server (RHEL4) using a mount command like this: mount -t smbfs //server_ip/foldername /servername/foldername -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWORD -o gid=users,dmask=777,fmask=777,rw,noatime It stays…
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linux: make links work after mount

This is not your classic programming question and since I'm quite new to this (really cool!) site, I'm not sure if this is the place, so I'll try anyway. I work in a lab when all the guys use PCs with Windows and access the lab linux servers via…
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Accidently unmounted a local folder

After that I tried to mount the folder via its full name (/var/...), but the console is saying: mount: can't find /var/xxxxxxxxx/xxxxx/xxx/ in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Thanks for your help, Nicolas. EDIT: to complete my issue, I can actually see the…
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Red Hat Linux - Publicly available CIFS mount

I have mounted a Windows file system on a Dell server running RHEL 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 using a software called Sharity. The filesystem is accessible just fine to the userid that ran the mount command but to no one else (Permission Denied) Is there a…
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Mount NTFS HDD on linux

I have an external HDD, Maxtor, with an NTFS partition on it. How can this be mounted on an RHEL5 OS?
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Mound bind a readonly partition as read-write

I'm putting together a simple daily backup script which rsyncs my home directory to a separate partition. I want to have the backup partition mounted at all times to allow browsing, however I also want it to be readonly so I don't mess it…
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Can't find mount point (Ubuntu)

On our Ubuntu 10.04 server, I've configured it to automount a 2nd hard drive to /mnt/wd15/ but now I can't unmount (using umount) it or find the entry in /etc/fstab. How do I unmount it (or/and find out how its mounted)? Details: I get the…
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