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Mounting ftp host to local directory on top of FUSE

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November 17th, 2007 mysurface

I have wrote a post regarding on how to access ftp host using curl. And this time, let us look at how to mount the ftp host to a local directory on top of FUSE.
FUSE (Filesystem in userland) is a userland build on top of virtual filesystem, it allows you to implement functional filesystem in [...]

Posted in Admin, curlftpfs, mount, sudo, umount | Hits: 20699 | 6 Comments »

mount a samba point

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October 10th, 2006 mysurface

You may heard about smbmount, smbfs or cifs. Yes if you are looking for how to mount a point to access to other machine through samba, you come to a right page.

How to mount a samba point might be vary at different linux distro, I ll recomment you at least read the manuals at your [...]

Posted in Admin, mount, mount.cifs, smbmount, sudo | Hits: 12778 | 4 Comments »

Enable a user to gain write permission when mounting

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October 10th, 2006 mysurface

We need to perform mounting with root privilege, but after a simple mounting, we need to be root in order to write to the mounting point. This is the default for a simple mounting, check out more mounting examples here.

But we can grant the mount point ownership to other user besides root. We can do [...]

Posted in Admin, cat, mount, pipeline | Hits: 7682 | No Comments »

Attach an external devices

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September 28th, 2006 liewsheng

When you plug in the USB thumb drive into your pc, in a flash OSes will help you mount the device. But what happen if it not? ‘mount’ come to rescue ;p
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB
but mount need admintrator privilege, so you need to login as root or any equivalent account to do the job. Or [...]

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