====================================== Mount Ceph FS with the Kernel Driver ====================================== To mount the Ceph file system you may use the ``mount`` command if you know the monitor host IP address(es), or use the ``mount.ceph`` utility to resolve the monitor host name(s) into IP address(es) for you. For example:: sudo mkdir /mnt/mycephfs sudo mount -t ceph 192.168.0.1:6789:/ /mnt/mycephfs To mount the Ceph file system with ``cephx`` authentication enabled, you must specify a user name and a secret. :: sudo mount -t ceph 192.168.0.1:6789:/ /mnt/mycephfs -o name=admin,secret=AQATSKdNGBnwLhAAnNDKnH65FmVKpXZJVasUeQ== The foregoing usage leaves the secret in the Bash history. A more secure approach reads the secret from a file. For example:: sudo mount -t ceph 192.168.0.1:6789:/ /mnt/mycephfs -o name=admin,secretfile=/etc/ceph/admin.secret See `Authentication`_ for details on cephx. To unmount the Ceph file system, you may use the ``umount`` command. For example:: sudo umount /mnt/mycephfs .. tip:: Ensure that you are not within the file system directories before executing this command. See `mount.ceph`_ for details. .. _mount.ceph: ../../man/8/mount.ceph/ .. _Authentication: ../../rados/operations/authentication/