How to create a mount point to File share in Azure Storage account
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03-14-2025 10:19 AM
Hello All,
I have a requirement to create a mount point to file share in Azure Storage account, I did follow the official documentation. However, I could not create the mount point to fileshare.. and the documentation discribed the mount point creation to only containers in Azure storage account.. that did not work for fileshare.
Documentation I followed and it explained only for container mounting: Access Azure Blob Storage using Azure Databricks and Azure Key Vault | Microsoft Learn
Command I used:
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dbutils.fs.mount(
source = "wasbs://<your-container-name>@<your-storage-account-name>.blob.core.windows.net",
mount_point = "/mnt/<mount-name>",
extra_configs = {"<conf-key>":dbutils.secrets.get(scope = "<scope-name>", key = "<key-name>")})
df = spark.read.text("/mnt/<mount-name>/<file-name>")
df.show()
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Can somoone please share the step-by-spey process to create mount point to Fileshare in Azure Storage account from Databricks only.
Appreciate your help.!!
Raja
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04-30-2025 01:44 PM
Hi Raja,
You're correct that the wasbs:// method is for Azure Blob Storage, not File Shares! I believe File Share mounting is different and would require you to use SMB protocol mounted outside of Databricks since File Shares isn't natively supported! So you can either use a VM or container, or instead of mounting, use the Azure SDK for Python to read/write files directly from Azure File Share:
1. install SDK: pip install azure-storage-file-share
2.read the file you want from Azure File Share w/Python in Databricks (sample code):
from azure.storage.fileshare import ShareFileClient
file_client = ShareFileClient.from_connection_string(
conn_str="<your-connection-string>",
share_name="<share-name>",
file_path="<file-name>"
)
download = file_client.download_file()
file_content = download.readall()
print(file_content.decode())
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