For newer Linux systems, you can use guestmount to mount the third partition within a VMDK image: guestmount -a xyz.vmdk -m /dev/sda3 –ro /mnt/vmdk Alternatively, to autodetect and mount an image (less reliable), you can try: guestmount -a xyz.vmdk -i –ro /mnt/vmdk Do note that the flag –ro simply mounts the image as read-only; to … Read more
I ran into this problem when using a host name and solved it by using an IP address. E.g.: use mount -t cifs //192.168.1.15/share rather than mount -t cifs //servername/share Another possible solution is to install cifs-utils .
I have exactly the same problem. I haven’t found a solution anywhere, but I have been able to fix it without rebooting by simply unmounting and remounting the mountpoint. For your system the commands would be: fusermount -uz /data mount /data The -z forces the unmount, which solved the need to reboot for me. You … Read more