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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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General Quesiton about where to mount a RAID VD volume, etc

We recently re-installed UBUNTU on a system that had UBUNTU system on a 500 GB RAID VD (1 slot) and DATA on another RAID VD (5 slots, RAID 5). After booting up the new system the RAID VD automatically mounted on /media, rather than on /mnt, which…
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Unraid share fails to mount on OpenWRT using mount.cifs?

So I have an Unraid machine with some shares on it and I would like to be able to mount this share on my OpenWRT router for backing up/transfering files onto the router (avoids having to plug-in/remove USB constantly as the share is also mounted on…
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Linux fsck.ext3 says "Device or resource busy" although I did not mount the disk

Edit This old question is maybe not worth reading, because the soulution is simple. I used checkdisk on the whole drive instead of on a partition of that drive, that's all. matnagel /Edit I am running an ubuntu 8.04 server instance with a 8GB…
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Identify HDD failure by sound + Is it safe to run smartctl on a mounted RAID1?

Basically, I have two WD HDDs in a programmatic RAID1 (no special hardware): $ lsscsi --verbose [0:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD10EFRX-68F 0A82 /dev/sda dir: /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0 …
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Want to allow application to mount a drive using rhel 8

I can mount my drive using sudo mount.cifs ...... I can unmount doing sudo umount /mnt/mountpoint It was prompting me for a password, so I changed the sudoers file to NOPASSWD:ALL and now it does not prompt me. I have an application and I want to be…
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What's the most failsafe way to mount remote filesystems at boot?

I am tasked with managing a complex structure of Linux (CentOS 8) VMs and hardware, hosting among other things various SMB and NFS exports. Most of them are simultaneously servers and clients, of one protocol or both. Ideally of course I'd want all…
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df shows low disk space. It includes a directory which uses mount --bind for chroot sftp

I've setup a chroot environment for sftp access (sftp only, no shell). The sftp user needs rw access to a host directory. I mounted it via /etc/fstab /var/www/html /home/sftp-user/jail/html none bind 0 0 When I do df -h I get the…
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How do I resolve this LVM issue in Ubuntu on a USB External Drive?

I'll try to be brief and succinct. I recently wiped my Ubuntu server and re-installed 20.04 on an older Proliant DL360. This system had two seagate external USB drives attached to it which store a majority of the data that I need. I'm trying to…
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use mount with LUKS2

Back in times of LUKS1, it was possible to use a command like $ mount /dev/luks-encrypted-partition /mnt/a [enter passphrase upon being prompted] as a shortcut for $ cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/luks-encrypted-partition some-name $ mount…
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Cannot mount XFS volume on Hetzner vps

After a volume a resizing i cannot mount an attached volume on Hetzner cloud vps root@MONITOR-BACKUP /mnt # mount -o discard,defaults /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0HC_Volume_1552045 /mnt/BACKUP-STORAGE mount: /dev/sdb: can't read superblock fdisk…
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Incorrect Folder Pemissions on CIFS Mount

(I'll start by acknowledging that there are lots of questions and answers out there about mount permissions and I have tried a lot of the proposed solutions without success.) I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 and I'm using CIFS to mount a directory from a Windows…
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Write access to a subdirectory within a read-only directory

I have a home server for my website that is running on a mounted image. I mount the image as follows: sudo mount -o loop,offset=19489299 raspbian-stretch-lite.img I then mount my static website folder, www, inside the image as read only: sudo mount…
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mount --bind vs mount: Mounting same device to multiple mountpoint

/dev/mapper/rhel-root is already mounted as it's the root directory, so I tried to do experiment by mounting it again to another mountpoint. Any difference between these two? mount /dev/mapper/rhel-root mount --bind /
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Can I use Azure file share with VM Classic?

I have a VM classic and I want to create a new VM to replace it. So I want to make use of the file share feature of Azure to transfer my files on the old VM. Both VM are running on Ubuntu. However, though I can successfully connect the fileshare…
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Disabling IP caching in samba or dealing with dynamic IP

We want to mount external storage that has been provided to us. We use something like the following in our /etc/fstab file on Ubuntu 18.04. //external/storage /mounting/point cifs…
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