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Why does Linux mount point do not exist?
This is because you created /mnt/home before mounting something to /mnt. When you did that, the “home” directory is hidden by the newly mounted /mnt filesystem. Then try and map to a folder that does not exist as you never made the folder on sda2 which you mapped to /mnt/ Is this intended?
Why do you want to map / Dev / SDA2 to / MNT?
The real question is why do you want to map /dev/sda2 to /mnt/? /mnt/ is for mount points, sure you could store then on a different physical drive but it won;t really save space or anything. Thanks for contributing an answer to Server Fault!
Is there a Linux mount point on SDA2?
Is this intended? because you mount sda2 to /mnt/ then create the folder on sda2 (Which is now /mnt/) then map /dev/sda3 to this folder (Which exists on /dev/sda2)
How to make a mount point in Ubuntu?
Install the pmount utility and let it handle /media/user/ mount points automatically. No more worries about how and where /media/user/ devices mount and by which names.
When to use mount utility if Directory does not exist?
When using the mount utility, if you specify a directory that does not exist, that is considered an error. Is there any option I can use so that mount points get automatically created if they don’t already exist?
How to mount a device to a directory?
The bind option with mount is used to mount an already mounted directory to a new directory as well and after which the contents of the device can be accessed in both the directories. Here you are trying to mount a block device which is not mounted already.
What to do if your drive mapping is not available?
Once this is done, click the drive mapping and the error is that the drive is not available, you can now disconnect the mapping. Just log-off or restart the system it will go off. I have found that these “phantom” drive mappings can be removed by using a scheduled task:
Is there a mount point in a folder?
Mount point does not exist, even though folder exists. Able to mount manually. Here you are trying to mount a block device which is not mounted already. While using the bind option, you can only specify two directories, one of which contains an already mounted file system. Not a device node. You can change the fstab entry to.
How can I make this mount point available without rebooting?
However, I am trying to mount this the machines provisioning and avoid rebooting, so I’ve tried doing a “mount -a” but get the following error: How can I make this mount available without rebooting? ok, I guess that just adding an /etc/fstab entry automatically creates the mount directory at some point during the first reboot.
Do you have to be in a directory to mount a file?
@clarky: the error you got was correct tried to tell you that your usage of drive.mount () is incorrect: the mountpoint argument to drive.mount () must be an empty directory that exists, or the name of a non-existent file/directory in a directory that does exist so that the mountpoint can be created as part of the mount operation.