mount - Control active and configured mount points

Synopsis

  • This module controls active and configured mount points in /etc/fstab.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
backup
(added in 2.5)
    Choices:
  • yes
  • no ←
Create a backup file including the timestamp information so you can get the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly.
boot
(added in 2.2)
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Determines if the filesystem should be mounted on boot.
Only applies to Solaris systems.
dump Default:
0
Dump (see fstab(5)). Note that if set to null and state set to present, it will cease to work and duplicate entries will be made with subsequent runs.
Has no effect on Solaris systems.
fstab Default:
/etc/fstab (/etc/vfstab on Solaris)
File to use instead of /etc/fstab. You shouldn't use this option unless you really know what you are doing. This might be useful if you need to configure mountpoints in a chroot environment. OpenBSD does not allow specifying alternate fstab files with mount so do not use this on OpenBSD with any state that operates on the live filesystem.
fstype
Filesystem type. Required when state is present or mounted.
opts
Mount options (see fstab(5), or vfstab(4) on Solaris).
passno Default:
0
Passno (see fstab(5)). Note that if set to null and state set to present, it will cease to work and duplicate entries will be made with subsequent runs.
Deprecated on Solaris systems.
path
required
Path to the mount point (e.g. /mnt/files).
Before 2.3 this option was only usable as dest, destfile and name.

aliases: name
src
Device to be mounted on path. Required when state set to present or mounted.
state
required
    Choices:
  • absent
  • mounted
  • present
  • unmounted
If mounted, the device will be actively mounted and appropriately configured in fstab. If the mount point is not present, the mount point will be created.
If unmounted, the device will be unmounted without changing fstab.
present only specifies that the device is to be configured in fstab and does not trigger or require a mount.
absent specifies that the device mount's entry will be removed from fstab and will also unmount the device and remove the mount point.

Notes

Note

  • As of Ansible 2.3, the name option has been changed to path as default, but name still works as well.

Examples

# Before 2.3, option 'name' was used instead of 'path'
- name: Mount DVD read-only
  mount:
    path: /mnt/dvd
    src: /dev/sr0
    fstype: iso9660
    opts: ro,noauto
    state: present

- name: Mount up device by label
  mount:
    path: /srv/disk
    src: LABEL=SOME_LABEL
    fstype: ext4
    state: present

- name: Mount up device by UUID
  mount:
    path: /home
    src: UUID=b3e48f45-f933-4c8e-a700-22a159ec9077
    fstype: xfs
    opts: noatime
    state: present

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Support

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author

  • Ansible Core Team
  • Seth Vidal

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