Questions tagged [bind-mount]
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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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docker mount bind resets after system reboot
I have a centos 7 vm I installed docker on. I used the typical installation, but the space allocated to /var/ was too little to hold very many images so I moved the docker folder somewhere else and ...
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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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Mount underlying volume, then bind-mount. Can I express this with systemd mount units somehow?
Suppose I have a volume commonly mounted into /media/username/LABEL. There is a folder on this volume, say named foobar which I'd like to bind-mount into another location, say /data/foobar.
With ...
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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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How to extend an external storage device to a chrooted directory?
I run game servers that can generate a lot of data. So I purchased a couple of 12TB drives to store all the data. I've looked into how to link the storage of the drives to a location within a chrooted ...
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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 -...
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Why can I not bind a mount namespace to a file
I observe the following:
As unprivileged user in shell No 1:
user@box:~$ sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone
kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone = 1
user@box:~$ unshare --mount --user
nobody@box:~$ ...
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How to get mount information of host inside a docker container
I need the mountpoints of all disks attached to a host inside a docker container. The mount information is available in /proc/1/mounts file, but I cannot access that file on all OS.
When I run the ...
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Is linux mount propagation asynchronous to the mount call?
I have two processes in different mount namespaces. They have a shared directory bind mounted to /mnt/share. The "master" uses MS_SHARED propagation for the mount, while the "slave" uses MS_SLAVE.
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Data partition and IntelliJ IDEA external file sync speed
I recently reconfigured the filesystem on my laptop so I can share my data with a second Linux. The Linux used in this matter is Fedora 28, 64-bit.
My disks are now laid out like so:
/dev/sda:
/dev/...
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Mounting is slow after 4000 mounts
I have a need to create about 10,000 total bind mounts for various chroots. After about 3000-4000 mounts, it slows down significantly from 100/s to about 5-10/s. I'm assuming it's hitting some weird ...
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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 the ...
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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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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=/...
