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Databricks - dbfs:/mnt/ question in Azure Data Factory

I'm new with this of Databricks in Azure Data Factory. Right now we got a Pipeline that contains only one single python activity. As you can see there is a dynamic file location that shows this : @concat('dbfs:/mnt/folder1/folder2/',pipeline().parameters.Input.pythonFile,'.py')

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My question is, what is exactly this location dbfs:/mnt . How can I check where it is pointing.

I try to follow this article :

https://docs.gcp.databricks.com/data/databricks-file-system.html#special-dbfs-root-locations

However I do not see the DBFS tab that it mentions.

Solution

  • /mnt/<something> is the place where people are usually mount external storage accounts that are outside of the DBFS root filesystem. You can find to which storage it's pointing by using the dbutils.fs.mounts() command executed in the notebook in Databricks (see docs)