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Mount two volume in the same namespace

AchilleAubert — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:02:24 GMT

Hi all,

I have two volumes in which there are several directories:

- vol1 (share name SHARE1):

/AppData

/Temp

- vol2 (share name SHARE2):

/Users

I would like to change the mount path of the second volume in order to have my directory Users visibles in the root of vol1:

- vol1:

/AppData

/Users

/Temp

But once I changed the mount path of vol2 and affect it to vol1, I see now in vol1:

/AppData

/SHARE2/Users

/Temp

How can I remove the share name of vol2 (SHARE2)? Is it possible?

Thank you.

Re: Mount two volume in the same namespace

tahmad — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 06:20:02 GMT

you might want to check the junction path

What are junction paths?

You may also consider using symbolic links:

How to make symbolic links (widelinks) work for CIFS clients on Clustered Data ONTAP

Re: Mount two volume in the same namespace

AchilleAubert — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:32:52 GMT

Thank you @tahmad but junction path is the fonctionnality that I already use in this case.

Re: Mount two volume in the same namespace

hmoubara — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:53:57 GMT

Hello @AchilleAubert ;

Can you provide what does your junction-path looks like for each volume in question. Per example you can run the below command:

cluster::> vol show -volume vol1,vol2 -fields junction-path

Re: Mount two volume in the same namespace

AchilleAubert — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:34:03 GMT

Hello @hmoubara

Thank you for your reply.

Here is the output of the command:

cluster::> vol show -volume vol1,vol2 -fields junction-path
vserver volume junction-path
------- ------ ------------------
VSERVER vol1   /vol1
VSERVER vol2   /vol1/qtree_vol/vol2
2 entries were displayed.

Re: Mount two volume in the same namespace

hmoubara — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 04:34:22 GMT

Hello @AchilleAubert

Can you perform the below:

cluster::> vol unmount -vserver VSERVER -volume vol2

cluster::> vol mount -vserver VSERVER -volume vol2 -path /vol1/vol2

Thanks