mount resource¶

Use the mount resource to manage a mounted file system.

Syntax¶

The mount resource has the following syntax:

mount 'name' do
  device           String
  device_type      String, Symbol # default value: device
  domain           String
  dump             Integer, false # default value: 0
  enabled          true, false # default value: false
  fsck_device      String # default value: -
  fstype           String, nil # default value: auto
  mount_point      String # default value: 'name' unless specified
  mounted          true, false # default value: false
  options          Array, String, nil # default value: ["defaults"]
  pass             Integer, false # default value: 2
  password         String
  supports         Hash
  username         String
  action           Symbol # defaults to :mount if not specified
end

where:

mount is the resource.
name is the name given to the resource block.
action identifies which steps the chef-client will take to bring the node into the desired state.
device, device_type, domain, dump, enabled, fsck_device, fstype, mount_point, mounted, options, pass, password, supports, and username are the properties available to this resource.

Actions¶

The mount resource has the following actions:

:disable: Remove an entry from the file systems table (fstab).
:enable: Add an entry to the file systems table (fstab).
:mount: Default. Mount a device.
:nothing: Define this resource block to do nothing until notified by another resource to take action. When this resource is notified, this resource block is either run immediately or it is queued up to be run at the end of the Chef Client run.
:remount: Remount a device.
:umount: Unmount a device.
:unmount: Alias for :umount action.

Note

Order matters when passing multiple actions. For example: action [:mount, :enable] ensures that the file system is mounted before it is enabled.

Properties¶

The mount resource has the following properties:

device

Ruby Type: String

Required for :umount and :remount actions (for the purpose of checking the mount command output for presence). The special block device or remote node, a label, or a uuid to be mounted.

device_type

Ruby Type: String, Symbol | Default Value: device

The type of device: :device, :label, or :uuid

domain

Ruby Type: String

Windows only: Use to specify the domain in which the username and password are located.

dump

Ruby Type: Integer, false | Default Value: 0

The dump frequency (in days) used while creating a file systems table (fstab) entry.

enabled

Ruby Type: true, false | Default Value: false

Use to specify if a mounted file system is enabled.

fsck_device

Ruby Type: String | Default Value: -

Solaris only: The fsck device.

fstype

Ruby Type: String, nil | Default Value: auto

Required. The file system type (fstype) of the device.

ignore_failure

Ruby Type: true, false | Default Value: false

Continue running a recipe if a resource fails for any reason.

mount_point

Ruby Type: String

The directory (or path) in which the device is to be mounted. Default value: the name of the resource block. See “Syntax” section above for more information.

mounted

Ruby Type: true, false | Default Value: false

Use to specify if a file system is already mounted.

notifies

Ruby Type: Symbol, ‘Chef::Resource[String]’

A resource may notify another resource to take action when its state changes. Specify a 'resource[name]', the :action that resource should take, and then the :timer for that action. A resource may notify more than one resource; use a notifies statement for each resource to be notified.

A timer specifies the point during the Chef Client run at which a notification is run. The following timers are available:

:before: Specifies that the action on a notified resource should be run before processing the resource block in which the notification is located.
:delayed: Default. Specifies that a notification should be queued up, and then executed at the end of the Chef Client run.
:immediate, :immediately: Specifies that a notification should be run immediately, per resource notified.

The syntax for notifies is:

notifies :action, 'resource[name]', :timer

options

Ruby Type: Array, String | Default Value: defaults

An array or string that contains mount options. If this value is a string, it is converted to an array.

pass

Ruby Type: Integer, false | Default Value: 2

The pass number used by the file system check (fsck) command while creating a file systems table (fstab) entry.

password

Ruby Type: String

Microsoft Windows only. Use to specify the password for username.

retries

Ruby Type: Integer | Default Value: 0

The number of times to catch exceptions and retry the resource.

retry_delay

Ruby Type: Integer | Default Value: 2

The retry delay (in seconds).

subscribes

Ruby Type: Symbol, ‘Chef::Resource[String]’

A resource may listen to another resource, and then take action if the state of the resource being listened to changes. Specify a 'resource[name]', the :action to be taken, and then the :timer for that action.

Note that subscribes does not apply the specified action to the resource that it listens to - for example:

file '/etc/nginx/ssl/example.crt' do
   mode '0600'
   owner 'root'
end

service 'nginx' do
   subscribes :reload, 'file[/etc/nginx/ssl/example.crt]', :immediately
end

In this case the subscribes property reloads the nginx service whenever its certificate file, located under /etc/nginx/ssl/example.crt, is updated. subscribes does not make any changes to the certificate file itself, it merely listens for a change to the file, and executes the :reload action for its resource (in this example nginx) when a change is detected.

A timer specifies the point during the Chef Client run at which a notification is run. The following timers are available:

:before: Specifies that the action on a notified resource should be run before processing the resource block in which the notification is located.
:delayed: Default. Specifies that a notification should be queued up, and then executed at the end of the Chef Client run.
:immediate, :immediately: Specifies that a notification should be run immediately, per resource notified.

The syntax for subscribes is:

subscribes :action, 'resource[name]', :timer

supports

Ruby Type: Hash, Array

Specify a Hash of supported mount features. Default value: remount: false (preferred). Array defaults to remount: true (non-preferred).

username

Ruby Type: String

Microsoft Windows only. Use to specify the user name.

Examples¶

The following examples demonstrate various approaches for using resources in recipes. If you want to see examples of how Chef uses resources in recipes, take a closer look at the cookbooks that Chef authors and maintains: https://github.com/chef-cookbooks.

Mount a labeled file system

mount '/mnt/volume1' do
  device 'volume1'
  device_type :label
  fstype 'xfs'
  options 'rw'
end

Mount a local block drive

mount '/mnt/local' do
  device '/dev/sdb1'
  fstype 'ext3'
end

Mount a non-block file system

mount '/mount/tmp' do
  pass     0
  fstype   'tmpfs'
  device   '/dev/null'
  options  'nr_inodes=999k,mode=755,size=500m'
  action   [:mount, :enable]
end

Mount and add to the file systems table

mount '/export/www' do
  device 'nas1prod:/export/web_sites'
  fstype 'nfs'
  options 'rw'
  action [:mount, :enable]
end

Mount a remote file system

mount '/export/www' do
  device 'nas1prod:/export/web_sites'
  fstype 'nfs'
  options 'rw'
end

Mount a remote folder in Microsoft Windows

mount 'T:' do
  action :mount
  device '\\\\hostname.example.com\\folder'
end

Unmount a remote folder in Microsoft Windows

mount 'T:' do
  action :umount
  device '\\\\hostname.example.com\\D$'
end

Stop a service, do stuff, and then restart it

The following example shows how to use the execute, service, and mount resources together to ensure that a node running on Amazon EC2 is running MySQL. This example does the following:

Checks to see if the Amazon EC2 node has MySQL
If the node has MySQL, stops MySQL
Installs MySQL
Mounts the node
Restarts MySQL

# the following code sample comes from the ``server_ec2``
# recipe in the following cookbook:
# https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/mysql

if (node.attribute?('ec2') && ! FileTest.directory?(node['mysql']['ec2_path']))

  service 'mysql' do
    action :stop
  end

  execute 'install-mysql' do
    command "mv #{node['mysql']['data_dir']} #{node['mysql']['ec2_path']}"
    not_if do FileTest.directory?(node['mysql']['ec2_path']) end
  end

  [node['mysql']['ec2_path'], node['mysql']['data_dir']].each do |dir|
    directory dir do
      owner 'mysql'
      group 'mysql'
    end
  end

  mount node['mysql']['data_dir'] do
    device node['mysql']['ec2_path']
    fstype 'none'
    options 'bind,rw'
    action [:mount, :enable]
  end

  service 'mysql' do
    action :start
  end

end

where

the two service resources are used to stop, and then restart the MySQL service
the execute resource is used to install MySQL
the mount resource is used to mount the node and enable MySQL