I tried to add swapfile to the root file system on AWS EC2 instance. Did I made a mistake during the edit of fstab? sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=4 chmod 600 /swapfile mkswap /swapfile swapon /swapfile swapon -s I have edited /etc/fstab vi /etc/fstab /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 Swap worked fine but … Read more
I am on Ubunto 20.04 server using a single partition at / for all directories as I am running web & mail servers. I hardened tmp , /var/tmp , & /run/shm using: none /tmp tmpfs nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 none /var/tmp tmpfs nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 none /run/shm tmpfs noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 I would like to add … Read more
I have a problem, I think I wrong to edit /etc/fstab on centos7 and I cannot reboot my remote server. I’m in rescue mode with freebsd. I cannot mount my ada0s3 (on centos was sda3) to fix my fstab. root@rescuefbsd:/mnt # gpart show -p ada0 => 63 3907029105 ada0 MBR (1.8T) 63 1985 – free … Read more
I am relatively new to Linux, and I am trying to mount a CIFS filesystem from an openfiler instance I have on my network in Red Hat. The openfiler instance is authenticating using AD. I am able to connect using samba: smbclient ‘\\10.25.214.26\cluster_storage.cluster.Cluster’ -U [DOMAIN]+[USERNAME] Enter DOMAIN+USERNAME’s password: Domain=[DOMAIN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.6] smb: \> When … Read more
I have NFS shares on a file server that I would like to mount on a web server. For example, a music streamer web application (subsonic) would be hosted on the web server and stream music files located on the file server via NFS shares. 1) Would it be better if I used autofs rather … Read more
I’m on Ubuntu server (I think it’s 12.04, but not positive) and I basically ran into this problem here Unmount a nfs mount where the nfs server has disappeared The umount command didn’t work, so I tried to just use the ol’ reboot. Now the machine gets an error when booting: FS-Cache:netfs ‘nfs’ registered for … Read more
This question already has answers here: What’s the best way to get info about currently unmounted drives? (4 answers) Closed 6 years ago. Using Centos. Situation: I have multiple drives off of two RAID controllers. I also have multiple entries in the fstab, such as /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc. What I need to know is how … Read more
This might help me hunt down some system configuration bug. Suppose I make a local directory (e.g., “/foo”) in one disk partition, and copy some files to it. But later on I forget about it, and configure the same directory as mounting point for another disk partition in /etc/fstab. Now if I reboot the system, … Read more
Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question I’m newbies in bash scripting and i try to write script that add entry for cifs windows share to fstab. … Read more
In CentOS 7, I have been told to secure the /tmp folder with with noexec,nosuid in /etc/fstab When I view the /etc/fstab, I can only see few lines without /tmp mounting option. I have created a tmp disk (1gb) and assign this disk via linode manager to /dev/sdc and in order to mount this in … Read more
