CIFS (Common Internet File System) is a popular file sharing protocol on Internet. It allows users on a Linux system access to a particular mount point on a windows share. CIFS is an implementation of SMB (Server Message Block) - [...]
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How to Mount a Drive in Linux
Mount is a command used in Linux to attached filesystems and drives and umount command is used to detach (unmount) any attached file systems or devices. In this tutorial, we will learn how to mount (attach) a drive in Linux [...]
How to List Mounted Drives on Linux
In this tutorial, I will show you the different ways to list mounted drives on Linux. We can use mount, findmnt, and df commands to list mounted device any Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Centos. In Linux, mount command mounts [...]
How to Create, Mount and Extend xfs Filesystem
XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system created by SGI in 1993. It was introduced in the Linux kernel in 2001, XFS is supported by most Linux distributions, some of which use it as the default file system (RHEL/CentOS [...]
Linux findmnt Command to Find Mounted Filesystems
The command findmnt is used to list mounted filesystems in Linux. This command will look for a particular filesystem in /etc/fstab, /etc/mtab or /proc/self/mountinfo. The command findmnt comes in the package 'util-linux-ng', now renamed 'util-linux'. The package comes with several [...]
How to Mount SMB Share on Linux
SMB is a protocol used by Windows-based computers for sharing access to resources on a network. To mount SMB share, Linux kernel now supports SMB3 by default (SMB3.1.1/SMB3.02/SMB3/SMB2.1 dialects are requested by default). CIFS is a particular implementation of the [...]
Linux NFS Mount Entry in fstab ( /etc/fstab ) with Example
NFS stands for ‘Network File System’. This mechanism allows unix machines to share files and directories over the network. Using this feature, a Linux machine can mount a remote directory (residing in a NFS server machine) just like a local [...]
Fstab File ( /etc/fstab ) Entry Options in Linux
The ‘/etc/fstab’ file is one of the important configuration file used by Linux machines which specify the devices and partitions available and where/how to use these partitions. This file will be created/updated during the system installation. You need to modify [...]
How to Mount USB/External Disks/CD Drive in Linux
In Linux mounting of devices (external disks,usb,cd drive) is done with a command known as mount. While mounting any device you should pass the argument to the command that what is the name of the partition and where do you [...]
Find Detailed NFS Mount Options in Linux
This tutorial, I will discuss the different NFS mount options you have to perform on nfs client. NFS is a client and server architecture based protocol, developed by Sun Microsystems. The main purpose of this protocol is sharing file/file systems [...]
Hard Mount vs Soft Mount in NFS with Example
Using NFS protocol, the NFS client can mount the filesystem existing on a NFS server, just like a local filesystem. NFS mount can be done in either as a soft mount or hard mount. These mount options define how the NFS [...]
3 Ways to Force Unmount in Linux Showing “device is busy”
In some situations when you try to unmount a filesystem especially NFS, it displays 'device is busy' message. This happens often when the NFS server has some issues (mainly unreachable) and you have a soft NFS mount. There are different [...]