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
boolean
added in 2.5
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Create a backup file including the timestamp information so you can get the original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly.
boot
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Determines if the filesystem should be mounted on boot.
Only applies to Solaris systems.
dump
string
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
string
File to use instead of /etc/fstab.
You should not 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.
This parameter defaults to /etc/fstab or /etc/vfstab on Solaris.
fstype
string
Filesystem type.
Required when state is present or mounted.
opts
string
Mount options (see fstab(5), or vfstab(4) on Solaris).
passno
string
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
path / required
Path to the mount point (e.g. /mnt/files).
Before Ansible 2.3 this option was only usable as dest, destfile and name.

aliases: name
src
path
Device to be mounted on path.
Required when state set to present or mounted.
state
string / required
    Choices:
  • absent
  • mounted
  • present
  • unmounted
  • remounted
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.
remounted specifies that the device will be remounted for when you want to force a refresh on the mount itself (added in 2.9). This will always return changed=true.

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

- name: Unmount a mounted volume
  mount:
    path: /tmp/mnt-pnt
    state: unmounted

- name: Mount and bind a volume
  mount:
    path: /system/new_volume/boot
    src: /boot
    opts: bind
    state: mounted
    fstype: none

Status

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

  • Ansible Core Team
  • Seth Vidal (@skvidal)

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