Changing or Setting Mount Information for a Volume

Describes how to set the mount path for a volume using either the Control System, the CLI, or the REST API.

About this task

You can set or change volume mount settings using the Control System, the CLI (volume create or volume mount), or the REST commands. To mount or unmount volumes under a directory, the user must have read/write permissions on the directory.

Changing or Setting Mount Information for a Volume Using the Control System

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Control System and go to the volume information page.
  2. Select Change Mount Information from the Select Action drop-down menu.
    The Change Mount Information dialog displays.
  3. Make the necessary changes.
    1. Specify whether (Yes) or not (No) to mount the volume.
    2. Enter the path in the Mount Path field.
      The path must be relative to / and cannot be in the form of a global namespace path (for example, /mapr/<cluster-name>/).
      RESTRICTION
      The path should contain only the following characters: 
      A-Z a-z 0-9 _ - .
  4. Click Save Changes for the changes to take effect.

What to do next

NOTE
After changing the mount point, run maprcli volume fixmountpath command to notify CLDB of the change in the volume mount path.

Changing or Setting Mount Information Using the CLI or REST API

About this task

The basic command to mount the volume is:

maprcli volume mount -name <volume name> -path <mount path>
RESTRICTION
The volume name and the path should contain only the following characters: 
A-Z a-z 0-9 _ - .

For complete reference information including all available options, see volume mount.