How to change the /mnt/resource file system mount point name on Azure RHEL linux system

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_{Thursday, August 29, 2019 6:10 PM}

Hello, 

How do you change the /mnt/resource file system mount point name on Azure RHEL linux system?

Thank you.

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_{Friday, August 30, 2019 10:37 AM}

HI,

Are you looking to Change the "/mnt/resource" to some other directory?

We can do that.

Settings for that temporary disk is managed by linux agent  in the file /etc/waagent.conf

Settings specific to the temp disk is listed here. That disk is called as the resource disk in that file.

# Format if unformatted. If 'n', resource disk will not be mounted.
ResourceDisk.Format=y

# File system on the resource disk
# Typically ext3 or ext4. FreeBSD images should use 'ufs2' here.
ResourceDisk.Filesystem=ext4

# Mount point for the resource disk
ResourceDisk.MountPoint=/mnt/resource

# Create and use swapfile on resource disk.
ResourceDisk.EnableSwap=y

# Size of the swapfile.
ResourceDisk.SwapSizeMB=2048

# Comma-seperated list of mount options. See man(8) for valid options.
ResourceDisk.MountOptions=None

In the file chnage the value for "ResourceDisk.MountPoint" to a new directory.

Then reboot the machine. After that you can issue df -h to see that the resource disk is attached to the new directory.

Note that data stored in resource disk can be lost during reboot. So the temporary and swap data only has to be stored on that.

You can also disable the resource disk creation.  
Also let me know your end goal so that i can suggest the best solution.

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_{Wednesday, September 11, 2019 9:45 AM}

Hello,

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