A mount point is a location (a directory) in a directory structure to which a resource (a directory structure) from another file system (like a data carrier, for example a CD-ROM) is attached (integrated).
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Linux execute script based on usb port
Hello I am working on debian system installed on embedded system. The PC has 3 ports usb let's call it A, B, C. I want to execute different script based on the usb port. How can I achieve this?
I found a lot of articles about the udev rules and I…

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Cloudera quickstart vm docker, how can I have hdfs data stored on a mount point?
Using Cloudera quickstart vm I would like to process more than a few gigs of data. However I need to take the Docker container down from time to time and change it (I'm playing with the configuration). I would like this 'large' amount of data to be…

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GNU Make rule that executes only if target exists?
In a fairly complex Makefile, I'd occasionally like to invoke certain rules only if a target does exist. For example, I may have created a local directory and used losetup to mount a file onto it. I'd like to leave the mountpoint and the directory…

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Waiting for the mount manager to create volume names
To mount vhds on windows, we can use OpenVirtualDisk then AttachVirtualDisk to attach a virtual disk, then GetVirtualDiskPhysicalPath can be used to obtain a physical path to the vhd, in the form of \\.\PhysicalDrive1.
Next we can use…

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Map USB disk BSD Name to actual mounted drive(s) in OSX
I am trying to get from the USB device BSD Name to the actual mounted volume(s) for that device e.g. device has BSD name "disk2" and mounts a single volume with BSD name "disk2s1" at "/Volumes/USBSTICK".
Here is what I have been doing so far.…

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Find the device or mountpoint of arbitrary files on Linux using C
This question is Linux specific; the solution does not need to be portable.
I am looking for a library function/syscall, or some combination thereof which will give me either the device (eg: /dev/sdb1) or mount point (eg: /home) for any arbitrary…

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Moving files from sdCard to flash memory in android?
I am working on an app which needs to move the files from sdcard to the flash memory .The problem is that both the flash memory and sdcard is detected by :
(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory())
So I cant detect whether sdcard is…

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mhddfs (or unionfs) + Apache = Permission denied
currently I am trying to set up a virtual machine for development for a client. Three SVN repositories with PHP code have to be combined in one folder (I know it's ugly, but that's how they roll). I Googled a little and found mhddfs. So I checked…

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How to mount a host directory with non-root ownership
I use build-arg to ensure my container runs with the same UID as my host user:
--build-arg UID=$(UID)
I am mounting a volume with:
-v $(PWD)/packages:/mnt/packages
Because I want my container to produce some output into that directory.
The…

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User/password problems with GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint() (Windows remote drive mount?)
From a Vista workstation, I have an attached XP Embedded computer on which I want to programmatically mount a volume locally (e.g., mount the XP Embedded \\MyXPEmbedded\C:\some\path\ to the Vista workstation (mounted to…

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Azure Databricks mount/unmount best practices
I was wondering as to what the best practices are around mounting and unmounting in Databricks using dbfs.
More Details:
We are using Azure Data Lake Storage. We have multiple notebooks and in each of the notebooks we have code that calls mount,…

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How to check if filesystem is already mounted using C/C++
Hi I am writing an application which mounts cgroup as shown below
mount("cgroup", "/sys/fs/cgroup", "tmpfs",0,NULL);
I am able to do this but I want to add a check to know if this is already mounted, how do I do that using C/C++?
Is there any API…

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How to get mount point for a given path in custom linux kernel module
As the title says I have a problem with my custom kernel module. My goal is to retrieve the root mount point of a given path. Just like using df:
df "/tmp/some_dir/some_file"
vvvvvvvv out vvvvvvvv
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%…

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Azure File Share Owner/Group Permissions Revert On VM Reboot
I am mounting an Azure File Share to /elasticdata/azshare on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS virtual machine. I mount the drive using the following script:
sudo mkdir /elasticdata/fileshare
if [ ! -d "/etc/smbcredentials" ]; then
sudo mkdir…

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What happened when I use a host volume(bind mounts) and named volume(one type of docker managed volume) at the same time?
I have read the some documents before asking this question:
https://docs.docker.com/glossary/?term=volume
https://docs.docker.com/storage/
https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/
https://docs.docker.com/storage/bind-mounts/
And I am confused…

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