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How do I retrieve basic information about an afs mounted filesystem

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Mar 15, 2026586 views
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Given an afs mouted filesystem, can I discover what IP address or DNS name it is served from? Can I learn anything about the drive/partition it occupies on the serving machine? Background: I am user (no access to root privileges[+]) at a site that makes extensive use of afs to mount remote disks. M…

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/afs

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Fix for: How do I retrieve basic information about an afs mounted filesystem

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Different parts of the /afs space is served from different servers. You can find out what volume a path is in by running on it, then running on that volume name will give you what server(s) it is served from. The whole tree is made up of volumes mou…

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