Ubuntu – Why does ‘mount’ give the error “mount: can’t find /mnt/disk”

mountUbuntu

I am trying to following the to mount an img file on ubuntu:

But when I do 'sudo mount -o test.img /mnt/disk'

 $ sudo mount -o  test.img  /mnt/disk
mount: can't find /mnt/disk in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Can you please tell me how can fix that?

You forgot to actually give the options to -o. Because of that, mount interprets "test.img" as the options, and not as the disk/image to mount.

sudo mount -o loop test.img /mnt/disk

http: is usually used for WebDAV shares, so:

If you use Ubuntu, you'll probably have GNOME or KDE. Both accept URLs like dav://host/path in their file managers.

(GNOME also lets you gvfs-mount dav://address from terminal.)
If you want to skip the GVFS and Kio layers, you will want davfs.

(cifs, which you are trying to use, is purely for the Windows file sharing protocol.)

You should be able to mount using sshfs. Try this from the local machine:

sshfs -o idmap=user $USER@1.2.3.4:/remote/path /local/path

See here for more information.