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--- hpc:storage_on_hpc [2025/03/14 10:40] – [Where does gio mounts my data?] Gaël Rossignol
+++ hpc:storage_on_hpc [2025/03/31 14:33] (current) – [Sometimes mount is not available but you can browse/copy/interract with gio commands] Gaël Rossignol
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 <code console>
-(baobab)-[sagon@login2 ~]$ beegfs-get-quota-home-scratch.sh
+(baobab)-[sagon@login1 ~]$ beegfs-get-quota-home-scratch.sh
 home dir: /home/sagon
 scratch dir: /srv/beegfs/scratch/users/s/sagon
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 <code console>
-[sagon@login2 ~] $ dbus-launch bash
+[sagon@login1 ~] $ dbus-launch bash
 </code>
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 <code console>
-[sagon@login2 ~] $ gio mount smb://server_name/share_name
+[sagon@login1 ~] $ gio mount smb://server_name/share_name
 </code>
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 <code console>
-[sagon@login2 ~] $ gio mount -u smb://server_name/share_name
+[sagon@login1 ~] $ gio mount -u smb://server_name/share_name
 </code>
-<note important>The data are only available on the login2 node.
+<note important>The data are only available where gio has been mounted.
-If you need to access the data on the nodes, you need to mount them there as well in your sbatch script.</note>
+If you need to access the on other nodes, you need to mount them there as well in your sbatch script.</note>
 If you need to script this, you can put your credentials in a file in your home directory.
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 Mount example using credentials in a script:
 <code console>
-[sagon@login2 ~] $ gio mount smb://server_name/share_name < .credentials
+[sagon@login1 ~] $ gio mount smb://server_name/share_name < .credentials
 </code>
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 <code console>
-[sagon@login2 ~] $ pgrep -a -U $(id -u) dbus
+[sagon@login1 ~] $ pgrep -a -U $(id -u) dbus
 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session
 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 6 --session
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 reference: (([[https://hpc-community.unige.ch/t/howto-access-external-storage-from-baobab/551|How to access external storage from Baobab]]))
+=== Sometimes mount is not available but you can browse/copy/interract with gio commands ===
+<code>
+$ dbus-launch bash
+$ gio mount smb://nasac-evs2.unige.ch/hpc_exchange/backup
+Authentication Required
+Enter user and password for share “hpc_exchange” on “nasac-evs2.unige.ch”:
+User [rossigng]: s-hpc-share
+Domain [SAMBA]: ISIS
+Password:
+$ gio mount -l
+Drive(0): SAMSUNG MZ7L3480HBLT-00A07
+  Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2)
+Drive(1): SAMSUNG MZ7L3480HBLT-00A07
+  Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2)
+Mount(0): hpc_exchange on nasac-evs2.unige.ch -> smb://nasac-evs2.unige.ch/hpc_exchange/
+  Type: GDaemonMount
+$ gio list smb://nasac-evs2.unige.ch/hpc_exchange/
+backup
+$ gio list smb://nasac-evs2.unige.ch/hpc_exchange/backup
+toto
+titi
+tata.txt
+$ gio cp smb://nasac-evs2.unige.ch/hpc_exchange/backup/tata /tmp
+...
+</code>
 ===== CVMFS =====
 All the compute nodes of our clusters have CernVM-FS client installed. CernVM-FS, the CernVM File System (also known as CVMFS), is a file distribution service that is particularly well suited to distribute software installations across a large number of systems world-wide in an efficient way.