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Ubuntu NFS mount bind failing

This should be a rather simple question, but all my googlefu has failed me so far. I have an nfs server with a share mounted to my local machine in dir /share/ (rw,sync,no_subtree_check) from there I ...
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Docker cannot mount to a directory from nfs share

I have an nfs share setup from my NAS with the docker host. 10.237.1.128:/mnt/storage/media 15T 47G 15T 1% /storage I am trying to mount a container in /storage/media/library but I get. ...
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Can lsof display the real path instead the bind mount path of a docker container?

I try to find out which files are in use in a specific path: lsof /mnt/cache This returns for example: COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME Plex\x20S 338 nobody cwd ...
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Linux bind mount with a deleted source file breaks future mounts with that target, but why? [duplicate]

Setting: A lone Linux machine with a recent kernel. When I delete the "source" of a bind mount then I am getting "No such file or directory" as an error message when I try to ...
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Slackware(64) 14.2 + Xephyr using chroot, umount partitions

This Exact Same Question i first time i do was ib -> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=6366697#post6366697 i need improve my script : For close the Xephyr window ...
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Can a file that's being supplied by bind-mount support overwriting via `mv`?

Suppose I bind-mount file a atop file b... $ echo 'line 1' > a $ touch b $ mount --bind a b The initial file contents will be mirrored at both paths, as expected: $ cat a line 1 $ cat b line 1 ...
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What is a move mount and how is it different from a bind mount?

I've been using bind mounts for 20 years, they're pretty simple. Now I see there is also a move mount, The move operation Move a mounted tree to another place (atomically). The call is: mount --move ...
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How to get thunar 1.8.4 to show bind mounts?

I am setting up a bind mount for a user : mount --bind /some/path /media/$user/test With Thunar 4.16.8 (XFCE 4.16, debian 11), this causes a nice test entry to be displayed in the devices panel. With ...
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Show bind mounts as a separate filesystem

I'm designing something that uses a lot of bind mounts. However, bind mounts show up as the same type as the host filesystem. This is bad as backup programs (like rsync) will read all the bind mounts. ...
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Cannot umount /dev bind-mount

I made a script which (tries to) duplicate my live disk /dev/sdb to a second disk /dev/sda, one rsync per partition (full script). Last step is to install grub on /dev/sda. The method I use is ...
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How to edit fstab to mount bind a directory that have spaces in the PATH at start in wsl2

I am currently using wsl2 on windows and I use MS OneDrive locally in parallel for my studies. Actually I sync each file with my OneDrive account. AS my Onedrive folder's name is like : Onedrive - ...
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Bind mounts for renaming

Can I do a bind mount on file "b" from file "a" such that file b also adapts the name of file "a"? Ex: ls / a foo/b mount --bind a foo/b ls / a foo/a
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Why `mount --bind ` allows to access shadowed mount point if run after shadowing, but not before?

I've tried to follow the answer to Accessing contents on the underlying mount point path some time ago, it did not work. But recently I've found out it works if mount --bind is executed after ...
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How to get mount --bind from Tomcat to effect the whole system?

I have a folder with a file /path/to/data/one/it_works.txt And I have an empty folder: /path/to/user/bob I have a script which should be executed by a web app in Tomcat which is: #!/bin/sh Source=&...
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bind mount with changed mount options from fstab

If you mount a filesystem at /foo with the mount option noexec and want the /foo/bar subtree to use exec instead, this can be achieved by bind mounting /foo/bar on itself mount --bind /foo/bar /foo/...
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To persist a namespace, create a bind mount point on which /proc/PID?

From https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/n.1.html : By default, a new namespace remains in existence only as long as it has at least one member process. A namespace can be made persistent— that ...
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Bind mount in an encrypted systemd-homed

I use to have a directory, lets call it F, in my home directory, so I normally did cd /home/me/F. (or variants) My home directory is encrypted with luks using systemd-homed. Since F grew too much, I ...
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Create another symbolic link from symbolic link in Debian by mount --bind ... command

I have got question how to create symbolic link from another symbolic link (with mount --bind command) under Debian. They are two cases: First case: I have got core data in /main/data. And in the ...
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How to bind mount a directory in .bashrc without sudo privilege

NOTE: I'm working in WSL2, but my issues lies entirely within the Linux side of things. Please let me know if this is not the right place for this. I am needing to mount --bind a directory whenever ....
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How to prevent block device like hdisk to mount, using ibudev

It is possible to prevent USB device to be bound using libudev (udev interface in c). Now I want to prevent other devices like block devices to mount using it. Is it possible?? and how to do it?? ...
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Bind mount with mindepth option?

Is there a way to use something similar to the "mindepth" option of the find command with a bind mount ? Here is my directories and files structure : level 0 directory ├── level 1 directory ...
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In a user namespace as non-root, on a nosuid,nodev filesystem, why does a bind mount succeed but a remount fails?

In a Linux user namespace, as non-root, I bind mount /tmp/foo to itself. This succeeds. Then, I try to remount /tmp/foo to be read-only. If /tmp is mounted with nosuid or nodev, then the remount ...
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autofs mount local directory when nfs unavailable

I want to have my home directory be an NFS mount when it's available, or a local directory when it's not. Think of a laptop that I might want to take somewhere off of my normal network. What I have ...
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Linking a dropbox business acccount from “~/Dropbox (firm-name)” to “~/Dropbox”, with "mount --bind" or symlink or something else?

Been using my Dropbox account for years on a Lubuntu system. Now, my new company has made a Business account available to me. However, Dropbox insists that this folder should be called: ~/Dropbox (...
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Unable to chroot mount point?

# cd /mnt # file $(which chroot) /usr/bin/chroot: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64-ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=...
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What is the point of btrfs subvolumes?

The system administrator guide of the Btrfs wiki (here) says: A Btrfs subvolume can be thought of as a POSIX file namespace. I remember at first it saying that a subvolume is, as opposed to being ...
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Bind-mount and cryptsetup result in truncated root-path in /proc/self/mountinfo

I have an encrypted container containing an ext4 filesystem with a subdirectory which is bind-mounted at a later point in time. If I take look at /proc/self/mountinfo, the root-directory for the mount ...
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Determine available space on bind mount from inside a Docker container

I have an application inside a Docker container running Debian that has a feature that can import a lot of big files. The application stores the files in a folder on the host that is accessible via a ...
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Using bind mounts with Overlayfs

I am attempting to create a virtual mount using bind mounts in combination with OverlayFS. What would be most optimal is as follows: The root folder is bind-mounted to a new sub-folder, and used as ...
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bind mount: reproduce, fstab-style

How can I generate a bind-mount entry for fstab, given an existing (mounted) mountpoint? Neither findmnt nor mount produce a fstab-style entry. I suppose one can parse findmnt and figure out SOME of ...
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Why do bind mounts of device nodes break with EACCES in root of a tmpfs?

A common scenario for setting up a container/sandbox is wanting to create a minimal set of device nodes in a new tmpfs (rather than exposing the host /dev), and the only (unprivileged) way I know to ...
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Bind mount but exclude a subdirectory

I'm using a chrooted Debian inside my router's base Linux OS. I want to move bind as many directories from the rootfs in the chroot as possible. All good so far. however, when it comes to the mnt ...
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unable to list/access files inside schroot from a `mount --bind`

I created the chroot with schroot following these instructions: https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine#Chroot Then to test it I did: $ sudo mkdir /TestA $ echo abc |sudo tee /TestA/tst.txt $ cat /...
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How to map my host's to the container's user in docker-compose using the lebokus/docker-volume-bindfs plugin?

I have a php dev stack setup through Dockerfiles and docker-compose. I mount the source tree and composer vendor folder to the container. My host's local user philipp has id 1000 and my container uses ...
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Mounting successively in fstab: wait for partition to be mounted?

I mount successively two points using fstab in my linux system # Mounting apps drive UUID=c54ca7da-117d-4cb2-8897-019ba4f6f12d /media/user/apps ext4 defaults 0 2 # Mounting opt based on apps ...
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What does the 4th column (root) in /proc/.../mountinfo mean?

From the proc manual it names the 4th column of mountinfo as "root", and describes it as "the pathname of the directory in the filesystem which forms the root of this mount". But how to understand it? ...
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How to mount (bind) in a one-way writing fashion

In case you needed to know, I'm on a GNU+Linux distro with kernel version 5.5.5. So, suppose I have a directory named base. Further suppose this directory only contains one empty file, named a. ...
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Force changes from the outside to propagate into the container

I have a Docker container based on the gitlab-ce/latest image. In order to allow certain additional operations with Ansible while being minimally invasive, I opted to bind-mount over the /assets/...
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Unable to bind mount in Arch linux

I tried the following: sudo mount --bind /dev/sda1 /path/to/a/directory sudo mount -o bind /Dec/sda1 /path/to/a/directory both gives an error message : mount(2): system call failed: Not a ...
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Proxmox LXC storage share, permission problems

I'm totally new in these enviroments but I'm trying to learn. I installed proxmox on a single SSD, then attached one HDD(/dev/sdb) to the system for media storage. The basic idea was to create one ...
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Is it safe to move a directory that has been bind mounted?

Say we have a directory that we bind mount to another directory like so mount --bind directory mount-point Later on we move or rename the directory mv directory directory-2 What happens when a ...
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How can I make a device available inside a systemd-nspawn container with user namespacing?

I would like to mount an encrypted image file using cryptsetup inside a systemd-nspawn container. However, I get this error message: [root@container ~]# echo $key | cryptsetup -d - open luks.img luks ...
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does nosuid work on bind-mounts to suid partitions?

if i have /target mounted with suid and then make a bind-mount on /bound with mount -o bind,nosuid /target /bound, will nosuid take effect on /bound ? (imo it should take effect but i'd still like a ...
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Why is nofail ignored for bind mounts in /etc/fstab?

I have added the following line to /etc/fstab (don't ask for a reason, it is a completely separate discussion that does not affect this question): /nonexistent /bin none ro,bind,nofail 0 0 On boot I ...
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Is it possible for a filesystem/directory to be mounted as temporarily writable so that all changes made are discarded on unmounting?

Specifically my use case is that I am using ostree to deploy specific folders of the filesystem to some systems I manage. Because overwriting the original directories of the system is risky in case of ...
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Systemd BindPaths= not working

I am trying to test how the BindPaths= directive works on a Debian 8 system with systemd. Currently I have a basic unit file for a service: [Unit] Description="Simple Test Service" BindPaths=/path:/...
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How do I rmdir a directory after umount?

When I mount --bind a directory, chroot to a directory that contains it, and then unmount it, I am then unable to remove the directory. sudo mount --bind /usr/ /home/ubuntu/Code/conversations/jail/...
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forwarding avahi-daemon socket to chroot

I have a raspberry pi 3b+ installed with raspbian stretch and I have installed an i386 chroot. The problem is the CUPS server require avahi-daemon for printer discovery and I haven't been able to ...
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What is the purpose of bind mounting (rbind specifically) /sys?

I was going through the Gentoo Handbook in preparation for installing Gentoo on my system. In the Chrooting section, these commands are given: mount --rbind /sys /mnt/gentoo/sys mount --make-rslave ...
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Why does bind mounting a file after unlink fail with ENOENT?

I do not understand why I get ENOENT when bind-mounting after unlink: kduda@penguin:/tmp$ echo hello > a kduda@penguin:/tmp$ touch b c kduda@penguin:/tmp$ sudo unshare -m root@penguin:/tmp# mount -...