diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-notebooks-TEMPLATE.yaml b/.github/workflows/build-notebooks-TEMPLATE.yaml
index dc68eae72..a63961802 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-notebooks-TEMPLATE.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-notebooks-TEMPLATE.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ name: Build & Publish Notebook Servers (TEMPLATE)
 
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     env:
       # GitHub image registry used for storing $(CONTAINER_ENGINE)'s cache
       CACHE: "ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}/workbench-images/build-cache"
diff --git a/ci/cached-builds/gha_lvm_overlay.sh b/ci/cached-builds/gha_lvm_overlay.sh
index 088cfd6fb..f890e80ba 100755
--- a/ci/cached-builds/gha_lvm_overlay.sh
+++ b/ci/cached-builds/gha_lvm_overlay.sh
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ if [[ ${overprovision_lvm} == 'true' ]]; then
 else
   sudo mkfs.ext4 -Enodiscard -m0 "/dev/mapper/${VG_NAME}-buildlv"
 fi
-sudo mkdir -p "${build_mount_path}"
 sudo mount "/dev/mapper/${VG_NAME}-buildlv" "${build_mount_path}"
 sudo chown -R "${build_mount_path_ownership}" "${build_mount_path}"