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What Can I Do If Mounting a Subdirectory of a File System Failed?

Troubleshooting

If a subdirectory is not created before mounting, the mount will fail.

Figure 1 Mounting without a subdirectory

In the preceding figure, the root directory does not have the subdir subdirectory created, so the mount fails. In this case, error message "Permission denied" is reported.

To troubleshoot this issue, mount the root directory, create a subdirectory, and then mount the subdirectory.

Figure 2 Mounting a subdirectory