deprecated
DBFS mounts
DBFS mounts is deprecated, replaced by Unity Catalog Volumes (deprecated December 2025).
DBFS mounts Unity Catalog Volumes
Mounting cloud object storage into the DBFS namespace under /mnt.
- A single `dbutils.fs.mount` made a cloud storage bucket look like a local /mnt path to everyone on the cluster - convenient, and entirely outside per-user governance.
- New workspaces are now provisioned without mount access at all.
- Even Databricks' own sample data moved out: the databricks-datasets collection long reached through a mount here is now served from the samples catalog through OpenSharing.
- Category
- Data governance
- Also known as
- /mnt, dbutils.fs.mount, mount points
- Verified
- 2026-08-20