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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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Deleting file in tar mounted with archivemount?

archivemount allows rw-mounting tar archives. What happens when I delete a file? Is it actually removed from the tar archive? Is a delete flag set? If the file is actually removed, then I assume the operation to be painfully slow, because the whole…
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mount hd as a different filesystem

I guess this question is already answered but could not find the solution. I have a USB hard disk connected to a remote linux machine and I want to mount that hard disk. What would happen if I mount it with a different filesystem? e.g what would…
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Is a bad NFS mount preventing a clean boot?

I'm on Ubuntu server (I think it's 12.04, but not positive) and I basically ran into this problem here Unmount a nfs mount where the nfs server has disappeared The umount command didn't work, so I tried to just use the ol' reboot. Now the machine…
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Should I use mount or autofs?

I have NFS shares on a file server that I would like to mount on a web server. For example, a music streamer web application (subsonic) would be hosted on the web server and stream music files located on the file server via NFS shares. 1) Would it…
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Unable to change access permissions on external ntfs Harddrive

I am fairly new with Linux when it comes to mounting hard drives, so hopefully this is a simple question. I recently purchased a 3TB hard drive that would have read/write access with both Mac and Linux. The first step I took was to format the hard…
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creating a drive (letter) that is a link to a folder

on my home pc I want to simplify things when it falls to accessing my home folder, so I would like to make my c:\Users\myusername folder pointing to a virtual drive created ad-hoc, such as Y:. In this I would spare the tediousness of writing that…
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Mounting local external hard drive on a remote machine

I have an external hard drive, which stores extremely large files. This is LOCAL and is connected to my laptop/desktop. I run many different programs on a REMOTE Linux server. I need to use some of the large files (stored in the external drive) as…
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Ubuntu webserver is out of space

Apparently, I was using xvda1 disk which is out of space. How do I change the /etc/fstab so that I can make my xvda2 for top level, and xvda1 as additional resource? It's an EC2 instance: root@~# cat /etc/fstab LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs / ext4 …
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EBS full device confusion

I have a 500GB EBS device (/dev/xvdf) mounted to /vol and all data on the box seems to be writing to /vol correctly (see du output below). For some reason /dev/xvda1 is totally full. Any idea what's going on here? $ df -h Filesystem Size Used…
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FreeBSD encryption concept: automatic boot without password or key, when mounted by another system?

Recently, i installed FreeBSD for work and geli for encryption. (Full disk encyrption without boot partition.) When I finished getting it setup, I found that every time it boots, I need to enter the parse password to mount the root disk. This is not…
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Change Hard Drive Mounted Location Debian

I just realized my hard drive is mounted to the wrong directory, how many I change the directory in which it is mounted? Thanks!
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Cannot unmount/remove 'Linux' drive from Windows 10

System: Windows 10, up to date I have a mysterious drive/folder which appears mounted on Windows 10, called simply 'Linux', which I cannot unmount or otherwise get rid of. It's empty, and there do not seem to be any options for its removal. For some…
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Mounting a docker volume fails with the `no such device` error

I have set up Docker in a multi-user environment with the following daemon settings { "userns-remap": "default", "data-root": "/data/docker" } where /dev/sda1/ is mapped to /data as follows: /dev/sda1 /data ext4…
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Linux confused by identical mounts on different disks after attaching disk

We are having a weird problem when attaching an EBS volume to a running Linux (NixOS in this case) instance (for the purpose of growing the file system on that attached volume; on it is the NixOS root file system for another machine that we shut…
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Mount container's filesystem on my host

I built some software in a container (using Podman) and would like to run the binary on my host. The binary is linked to some dynamic libraries that I don't have on my host. I figured that a quick hacky solution is to mount the container's…
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