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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docker mounting volumes on host
I have successfully been able to share folders between a docker container with volumes using
docker run -v /host/path:/container/path ...
But my question is what the difference between this and using the VOLUME command in the Dockerfile
VOLUME…

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Linux du command without traversing mounted file systems
If the wording of the question is wrong, please let me know. It might explain why I can’t find an answer.
I want to find the usage on my main disk using a command like:
du -sh /*
The problem is that I have a number of mount points at the root…

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Mount "named volume" as non-root in Docker
Is there any way to mount a named volume as a non-root user? I am trying to avoid having to run a chown in each Dockerfile but I need the mount to be writable by a non-root user to be able to write the artifacts created by a build in the image
This…

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adding an fstab option using Ansible
I am trying to add nodev to my /etc/fstab file. I am using the Ansible command below but with no luck. My issue lies with the regular expression, I'm not a pro at regex.
- name: Add nodev to /etc/fstab
lineinfile:
dest=/etc/fstab
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Difference between WNetAddConnection2() and NetUseAdd()
I'm mounting a remote drive locally (see User/password problems with GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint() (Windows remote drive mount?))
QUESTION: What is the difference between WNetAddConnection2() and NetUseAdd()? It appears they each permit you…

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kubernetes secret items not mounted as file path
I have the following yaml:
volumeMounts:
- name: app-secret
mountPath: /app
readOnly: true
volumes:
- name: app-secret
secret:
secretName: app-secret
items:
- key:…

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Where are all mount points stored in Linux
I want to know where all mount points are stored; i.e. under any specific directory?
I want to be able to list all the existing mount points using a C Program. Which system call or function should I use?

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How to map a AWS S3 bucket as a mapped drive (Network Drive) in windows server 2016
I would like to use S3 bucket as a real-time file store and I wanted to upload/download large files to S3 from my Windows server 2016 frequently. Is there any option to mount an S3 bucket with windows EC2 instance without using third party paid…

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How can I find mount point of a device in C/C++?
I am using libhal to detect device events. I am able to detect a device added or removed but I can not detect device's mount point. The function libhal_volume_get_mount_point(volume) does not work.
I have a callback function to detect device add: …

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I am trying to get newly attached disk (Pen Drive) MOUNT POINT in MAC OS with C code
I am new to MAC OS X. I want to get Mount Point of newly attached disk (Pen Drive). I already tried some code and got mount path from command
diskutil info disk1S2 | grep \" Mount Point: \" | awk '{print $3}'
where disk1S2 is Identifier of newly…

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The Uniqueness of IOCTL_MOUNTDEV_QUERY_UNIQUE_ID
The documentation on IOCTL_MOUNTDEV_QUERY_UNIQUE_ID is a bit confusing... exactly what kind of ID should be returned in the MOUNTDEV_UNIQUE_ID structure?
The documentation for
typedef struct _MOUNTDEV_UNIQUE_ID {
USHORT UniqueIdLength;
UCHAR …

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bindfs - Doesn't work for folder inside "/proc"
Bindfs doesn't work for folder inside "/proc"...
[root@some_host some_folder]# bindfs --map=root/ "/proc//" "/home//"
Failed to resolve source directory `/proc//': No such…

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How to know how many Mount targets to create by Cloudformation
I create by cloudformation an EFS in a VPC, this VPC contains few EC2 instances.
I need to create as well mount targets for each subnet.
This cloudformation template can be executed in different AWS accounts.
How to know how meny Mount targets…

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Is the EBS volume mounted ? and where?
In my EC2 instance, that is attached to a volume EBS of 100GB, I run this command:
[ec2-user ~]$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
xvda 202:0 0 100G 0 disk
└─xvda1 202:1 0 8G 0 part /
Here is the file…

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Filter keys from a map in Puppet
I need the mount points in puppet that refer to /datadisks. I use mountpoints core facts to obtain the mount points. Within these mount points, I want to filter and get only the mount points whose names contain /datadisks in an array i.e I just want…

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