Questions tagged [bind-mount]
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Mounting using alternate fstab file
I need to use an alternative fstab file for mounting a folder in another folder, like the command
mount --bind /folder1 /folder2
I tried the command
mount --fstab /pathToFile.fstab
as stated in ...
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/etc/fstab fails to bind mount on boot, but running mount -a works correctly
I'm running a modified WD MyCloud (Gen 1) NAS with Debian 8 (Jessie) installed on it.
Due to the nuances of the device, I can't resize the root partition, and am struggling with space on it.
To ...
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Copy dir and its contents in RAM and backup on the original dir
I'd like to copy a dir and its contents in RAM, do my routines and periodically make some backups/sync on my original dir.
So if I have a dir mydir/ with 2 files:
$ ls mydir/
file1.tex file2.tex
I ...
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Bind mounts within bind mounts
I am trying to bind mount one file over another file, then remove the file that is now hidden from access. I'm trying to go about this as follows:
folder1# echo a > a
folder1# echo b > b
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What exactly happens behind a bind mount? (Linux 4.x)
From the answer to What is a bind mount?,
It is possible to unmount /some/where, in which case /else/where remains mounted.
I checked the output of mount after performing a bind mount. The ...
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Bind mounted /var to /raid5/var and CentOS fails to boot
System Background: I am running CentOS 7 in a VM (in VirtualBox) on a host computer running Windows 10. My /dev/sda is on an SSD and then I have three 1TB HDDs /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, and /dev/sdd ...
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ecryptfs mounted twice - wil this cause problems?
I have a setup in which I have a small root partition (~30 GB) and another partition that I've called my "data_partition" (The rest of the disk). Items that are traditionally placed under the root ...
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Why do repeated bind mounts create entries for the source directory?
Why does a repeated bind mount create multiple entries in /proc/mounts?
# md -p /mnt/test-mount/{source,target}
# mount --bind /mnt/test-mount/{source,target}
# grep test-mount /proc/mounts
/dev/...
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How to See Bound Folders and Release Them
This morning I noticed someone had stuck a USB Drive in the back of the server. (I'll have to end that practice later). For some reason CentOS 7 mounted that disk /dev/sdc1 under /run/media//. I also ...
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Calculating directory size without subdirectories bind-mounted from the same device
I want to calculate a directory size with all its subdirectories. But I had made some of the subdirectories to mount from a mount point. (using mount -B/--bind)
when I use du -hks the returned size ...
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How to tell systemd to create a bind mount when plugging in an automounted drive?
I have the following mount and automount units enabled for my external USB drive.
Mount Unit:
[Unit]
Description=Time Machine Drive Mount Service
[Mount]
What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/some-uuid
Where=/...
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Why can't I bind-mount “/” inside a user namespace?
Why doesn't this work?
$ unshare -rm mount --bind / /mnt
mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
These work ok:
$ unshare -...
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Multiple network shares to single mount point?
How would I mount multiple network shares to single mount point?
Example
//10.50.154.6/data 42T 22T 21T 51% /mnt/data6
//10.50.154.7/data 8.1T 6.2T 1.9T 77% /mnt/data7
//10.50.154.8/...
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How to unmount a recursive bind mount - safely [duplicate]
Please take care that you have no unsaved work if you test this.
I ran this command as an experiment, but how can I undo it without rebooting?
# mount --rbind / /mnt
What I have tried
# umount /...
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Lazy unmount root jail drives
I have created a root jail containing rpm and yum (centos 7.5) to install some software on the original system.
Workflow
Mount sys, proc, dev to the root jail
Mount root of the original system "/" ...
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Making a bind-mount take effect only in the context of the current process and its descendants
I have 2 files: /MyDir/a and /MyDir/MySubDir/b and am running a bash script, to which I want to add code to make file /a point to file /b, but only in the current process and its descendants.
In ...
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Shadow bind mount in fstab
I have a custom, non-default Ubuntu installation, where I use my other Linux distro's boot manager (rEFInd). As such, I don't want Ubuntu to see my EFI partition, on the principle that it has no ...
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How to create a mount --bind when root does not have permission to access the source directory?
While trying to create a test environment using mount --bind I was surprised to find that it sometimes fails with permissions errors because root cannot access the source directory. This only appears ...
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How to exclude bind mounts from findmnt results list?
In a bash script I have the following lines:
TARGETS="$(findmnt -n -v -t btrfs -o TARGET --list)"
UUIDS="$(findmnt -n -v -t btrfs -o UUID --list)"
I run this script on some servers (running Arch ...
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How do I mount a file on top of a broken symbolic link?
In preparation of a chroot I'm doing an mount --bind /etc/resolv.conf ${MOUNTPOINT}/etc/resolv.conf. I need this because the ${MOUNTPOINT} contains a broken etc/resolv.conf.
However, mount is ...
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Meaning of statement that 'getcwd functions work correctly' in FreeBSD man page for mount_nullfs?
In FreeBSD, man mount_nullfs states that:
The primary differences between a virtual copy of the file system and a
symbolic link are that the getcwd(3) functions work correctly in the virtual
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bind mounting source to itself
What does mount --bind /dir1 /dir1 do? I've read https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt however it doesn't give a clear explanation. Looks like it is valid not only for ...
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why do Linux bind mounts disappear if the mount point's inode changes?
In summary: if you bind mount a file /tmp/a on top of /tmp/b in a new mount namespace, but then the inode of /tmp/b changes in the parent namespace, the bind mount disappears in the child namespace. I'...
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`umount -R` on bind mounts takes a non-neglible amount of time, why?
Why does umount -R take 0.2s to unmount this subtree of bind mounts? It only took 0.02s to mount the subtree, and 0.00s to change its propagation flags.
(I was looking at cloning the current set of ...
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Editing /etc/fstab to permanently bind mount directory
I wish to make the following mount permanent:
[michael@devserver ~]$ findmnt | grep public
└─/home/jail/home/public/repo /dev/mapper/centos-root[/home/michael/testing/gateway/repo] xfs ...
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Mount --bind in the same filesystem move files as in the same filesystem
If I mount --bind /a in /b and if I mv /a/bigfile /b/ it will take a lot of type (if the origin file is big). This will actually copy the file and then delete from the origin instead of simple update ...
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How to unmount a mountpoint with rbind and rslave?
Trying to use a chrooted system via
mount -B stage3 gentoo
mount -t sysfs none gentoo/sys
mount -t proc none gentoo/proc
mount -R /dev gentoo/dev
mount --make-rslave gentoo/dev
unshare --fork chroot ...
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how could the df command show the right mounts?
Under redhat 7, given this fstab where a "bind mount" across file systems is defined:
/dev/mapper/datab_vg-lv_db /appli/postgres xfs defaults 0 0
/appli/postgres/var /var/...
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Why are these mounts needed before updating initramfs?
After reading this answer on bind mount, I got the idea that a bind-mount in Linux is to reproduce part or an entire filesystem under another point in the directory tree.
So when we write the ...
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Why can't I create a `hardlink` to a file from a “mount --bind” directory on the same filesystem?
Original Problem
I have a file on one filesystem: /data/src/file
and I want to hard link it to: /home/user/proj/src/file
but /home is on one disk, and /data is on another so I get an error:
$ cd /...
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Making root being bind mounted
I have XUbuntu and Arch on a laptop, I'm sharing /boot partition between these distros mounting it on /mnt/boot and bind-mounting /mnt/boot/xubuntu or /mnt/boot/arch onto /boot; it works fine even ...
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Link 2 existing files
I have 2 existing files : abcd and xyz.
$ cat abcd
abcd
$ cat xyz
xyz
Now, when I try to softlink these files, I get this message :
ln: cannot create xyz: File exists
I do not want to use
ln -sf ...
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ls -la doesn't display correct permission for a mount --bind folder
Please read the following steps to understand my problem,
Execute following commands
mkdir ~/src
mkdir ~/destination
sudo mount ~/src ~/destination --bind -o ro
src folder has been bind mounted to ...
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Mounting two folders to corresponding directories within external volume?
I'm trying to mount /etc/folder and /var/folder to the same external volume UUID=xyz. This external volume already has subdirectories etc_folder and var_folder and has been formatted and available to ...
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Bind USB drive to home directory on demand
I was trying to attach specific USB drive to home folder of the user. I have installed vsftpd, but Kodi can't move on upper hierarchy. So he can't access /media folder, but FileZilla can.
My USB is ...
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Debian install, mounting /var /tmp /home in the same partition
I'm making a new Debian install. I have a SSD and an HDD. My idea was to put /home, /var and /tmp on the same partition in the HDD, and the rest (/) in a tiny partition in the SSD.
I followed this ...
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openvpn route-up script no mount permissions
I'm trying to mount a couple of nfs shares after my openvpn tunnel is up. Previously this worked on ubuntu 12.04 and ubuntu 14.04. I made a clean install with ubuntu 16.04 and can't get it to work.
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How can I automatically make ZFS filesyatems mount shared / rshared?
I have a number of ZFS sub-filesystems (so that I can granularly manage snapshots and ZFS options) like so:
tank/media
tank/media/pictures
tank/media/pictures/photos
tank/media/movies
tank/media/...
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/root as bind mount?
I am migrating my system from Debian 32 bit to Debian 64 bit. It is installed on /dev/sda2, so I created /dev/sda3, installed the new system there, synched installed packages and configuration files ...
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find: fts_read: Permission denied through mount_nullfs
I have the following set-up:
FreeBSD 10.3 with ZFS on root. A ZFS volume hierarchy (multiple volumes nested in each other, for lack of a better name) is duplicated using mount_nullfs in order to ...
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How is findmnt able to list bind mounts?
A lot of people keep saying that Linux does not keep information about bind mounts, so there is no way to get a list of them and their sources. Here are some examples:
from one of the the comments ...
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CentOS 7 - Can't mount /var/tmp as bind
I'm working on a freshly installed CentOS7 with LVM. I want to bind mount /var/tmp to /tmp and added the following to /etc/fstab.
/tmp /var/tmp none rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,bind 0 0
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use a different socket than /dev/log, system-wide
Is there a way to make a whole Debian (Jessie) installation use a different syslog socket than /dev/log (like, for example, /tmp/my-other-log) ?
Reason: I'm running Debian Jessie in a chroot ...
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Mounting new filesystem affects non-recursive bind mounts?
It hasn't always behaved this way, but nowadays I get this inconsistent behaviour. Bind mounts don't copy existing mounts (unless you use --rbind), but new mounts (and unmounts) get copied. So it ...
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Workaround for mount -bind behavior change between wheezy and jessie?
I recently upgraded a system from wheezy to jessie that makes use of bind mounts. But with the update the behavior of the bind mount has changed, and now acts as bind one filesystem will recursively ...
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CentOS 7 unable to cleanly umount a bind mount using rbind and rslave
The following sequence of commands will fail on CentOS 7 (kernel version: 3.10.0-327.10.1.el7.x86_64):
[hidden]$ mkdir -p A B/a C/b
[hidden]$ sudo mount --bind A B/a
[hidden]$ sudo mount --rbind B C/...
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Unmount a rbind mount without affecting the original mount
Asked on serverfault but didn't get enough attention, so reposted here, with the hope some people here know the answer.
There is another question discussing about umounting rbind mounts, but the ...
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Does the Linux kernel have knowledge of bind mounts? [duplicate]
I've been looking for a way to list bind mounts or at least determine if a particular mount is a bind mount. Several answers on this website say that because it is a parameter of a mount operation it ...
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How to 'snapshot' a chroot?
I want to perform something similar to a 'clone' on vmware fusion/virtualbox/a VM manager.
Host and chroot are both ubuntu. One complicating factor may be that this chroot may have one or more child ...
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Why is my bind mount visible outside its mount namespace?
So I'm trying to get a handle on how Linux's mount namespace works. So, I did a little experiment and opened up two terminals and ran the following:
Terminal 1
root@goliath:~# mkdir a b
root@...
