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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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Rescue fstab, invalid argument mounting my disk ext4

I have a problem, I think I wrong to edit /etc/fstab on centos7 and I cannot reboot my remote server. I'm in rescue mode with freebsd. I cannot mount my ada0s3 (on centos was sda3) to fix my fstab. root@rescuefbsd:/mnt # gpart show -p ada0 => …
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Cannot Create A Directory Called 'partition' On msdos Flashdrive

Really strange issue that I've encountered. I have fedora 23 and a flash drive that I play with writing some scripts for mount/unmount operations: /dev/sdb1 on /run/media/mymounts/kol type msdos…
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External Drives on RAID/LVM configuration

I had 2 drives corrupted and now replaced with new ones sitting on RAID 0. After installing the new drives I have attached the 2 old corrupted drives via usb to retrieve data from them. These 2 drives are build RAID 0 and using LVM, the server…
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How to list all mounted disks and their mount path location on FreeBSD?

On FreeBSD I wish to see all mounted disks and all of their mount locations. For example this shows my disks. [root@freenas] ~# sysctl kern.disks kern.disks: xbd2 xbd1 ada0 [root@freenas] ~# Now I have the disks but I don't know where they are…
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CentOS remount a used disk

I have a used disk full of video files which is 1TB in size and is mounted on /usr/local/nginx/html. I want to remount it on /disk1 for naming purposes. If I remount it would the files still be intact? Eg: /usr/local/nginx/html/folder/file.txt be…
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Which directories in Linux must be part of the root filesystem?

I'm building a few virtual machines under KVM where the base system will be an image (haven't decided specifically which format yet), and all of the remaining system files will be other partitions mounted from a distributed file system. For…
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Put another hdd in ubuntu server 10

I am using Ubuntu server 10 for LAMP and hosting sites. I installed the server without a GUI, and what I want to do is to add a second HDD for some backup. I attached the HDD but the problem is I don't know now how to mount it without a GUI.
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Edit fstab on unmounted device

I tried to add swapfile to the root file system on AWS EC2 instance. Did I made a mistake during the edit of fstab? sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=4 chmod 600 /swapfile mkswap /swapfile swapon /swapfile swapon -s I have edited…
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how do i understand where a directory is mounted?

Ubuntu / DigitalOcean I have a drive that is almost full but I have mounted a storage device. But I can't tell if a particular directory is on the external device or not. I thought I mounted the device at /mnt But perhaps it is further down: $ df…
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ubuntu server disk space usage

I have an Ubuntu server.my Mysql service stopped and it did not start. I found out that my free disk space is very low. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 32G 31G 0 100% / none 497M …
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Mounting of few tens of thousands of FS

I need to provide the ability to create/read/write/delete files and set quotas for a large number of users of a web-service. These users do not exist as Linux users so I can't apply quotas. The creation of real users just to perform quotas seems…
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Make a directory show up as a mount point

How can I make a directory in Linux show up as a mount point so users can see it with df?
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