fstab is a file on in Unix / POSIX systems that stores settings about where devices system startup are mounted.
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Mount hibernated windows paritition
I am trying to mount my windows partition at boot. It works fine when windows in shutdown, but when windows is hibernated, it can't be mounted as rw and I am sent to the root shell at boot. I tried to ...
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Cygwin fstab configuration issue
Can't quite see where I'm going wrong. Trying to replicate the command "mount c: /c" in my fstab file, similar to this question: Cygwin fstab - what am I doing wrong?
Michael@Michael-PC ~
$ cat ...
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mounting share in fstab error
I've been successfully able to mount a share on my Ubuntu Server using this command:
sudo mount -t cifs //IPTOSHARE/DriveLetter$/Folder/"Folder Space" /mnt/Folder/"Folder Space" -o ...
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Mounting system directories from network
I was thinking about how to keep write access to my Raspberry Pi's root file system (residing on a SD card) at a minimum. Of course, /var is a primary candidate for being kept somewhere else.
I have ...
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Mounting samba share from fstab
Currently I have 3 network drives I mount each time i restart my system. The command I use is:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.8/ARES /media/Ares -o user=USER,password=***
sudo mount -t cifs ...
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Unable to move file in a folder with the correct permissions
I've got a problem with a sata hdd, it is mounted in fstab like this:
UUID="089DD5F442991363" /home/lex/media/archive1 ntfs rw,users,suid,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000,exec,utf8 0 0
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Escape space in /etc/fstab for Msys
I read that spaces can be represented with \040 in paths in the /etc/fstab file on linux, but my experience shows this not working on Msys.
Can anyone disconfirm this or (better yet) reveal how to ...
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LVM volume activation before fstab mounts
I am trying to mount LVM volumes during startup of my Debian Squeeze system. Since for some reason, the LVM volumes / groups are inactive by default, they need to be activated before any mounting can ...
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Automount NTFS partitions in Linuxmint 14 KDE
I am trying to set an NTFS partition to be auto-mounted in Linuxmint 14 KDE. I have already added command in /etc/fstab file as below:
/dev/sda1 /media/MyDrive ntfs defaults 0 0
After saving the ...
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How do I always mount the same drive to the same location?
I have Debian running on a laptop of mine, and an rsnapshot config that does a wonderful job of backing up incrementally to a 1TB external drive of mine. Unfortunately, sometimes the drive mounts to ...
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How to execute programs on mounted partition
This is the aplication I want to run.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 manuel manuel 582841 Nov 22 09:51 PromServerMain
This is the fstab entry
/dev/sda8 /media/data0 ext4 defaults,user 0 2
This is the mountpoint
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LMDE with gnome 3 - Change automount options
I've got GNOME 3 on an LMDE machine and I need to change the automount options to mount without the noexec attribute for an NTFS partition. Does anyone know where I could find such configurations and ...
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Why is my USB drive not mounted during startup
I have Arch Linux running on my Raspberry Pi. I added the following line to my fstab file:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/MyBook ntfs defaults 0 0
for a while this worked fine, the device was ...
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Disk device changes after each rebooting
I have a SATA disk and an IDE disk on my desktop machine, and I've installed Windows 7 in the SATA disk while ArchLinux in the IDE, the grub is installed on the IDE disk.
In ArchLinux /etc/fstab I ...
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Linux mounting cifs share with elevated (chmod) privileges
I have mounted a NAS share on a linux computer using cifs (in etc/fstab). The NAS is a synology drive and is basicly just a linux box.
Is there any way to get elevated privileges such as chown and ...
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Why does my Ubuntu Live USB stick always resets my modified fstab to “defaults”?
I made an Ubuntu Live USB Stick with the LinuxUSBDownload installer. The installer works great and also the well known issue of not unmounting the casper-rw at shutdown is fixed. :D
The problem now ...
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Why Linux /etc/fstab UUIDs are case sensitive?
I recently added a line for a USB memory stick to /etc/fstab, to be able to mount it automatically, using UUID to identify the device.
Before I already have several external ext4 drives that have ...
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nfs /etc/fstab doesn't mount on startup: ubuntu / xbmc
I have an nfs share I'm trying to mount automatically at startup in ubuntu / xbmc
I have the following in /etc/fstab
nas:/mnt/raid /mnt/raid nfs noauto,rw,async
On startup the mount doesn't ...
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GRUB broken after conversion to btrfs
First off, yes, I did, in fact, suspect that changing my filesystem from ext4 to btrfs would break GRUB and fstab.
Now, here's what happened. I converted the filesystem seamlessly to btrfs and that ...
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How can mount work with an empty fstab?
From the Arch Linux installation guide:
The /etc/fstab file contains static filesystem information. It defines how storage devices and partitions are to be mounted and integrated into the overall ...
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Modify fstab entry so all users can Read and Write to an EXT4 Volume
I have an Ubuntu 10.04 box with an EXT4 partition. This partition is set to automatically mount in /etc/fstab. For the purposes of this post, we'll call it: /media/foo.
Unfortunately, only root ...
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Mounting ext4 drive with specified user permission
I want to mount a supplementary etx4 data disk drive with specified rwx permission for a certain user. The mount point is inside the home of such a user and it's owned by the user. I added the new ...
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Why is every file marked as an executable on my mounted NTFS partition?
I have edited my /etc/fstab file to include this line:
/dev/sda5 /media/yannbane/Shared ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
I did this so my dev/sda5 partition (labeled Shared) is automatically ...
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Using a UUID to mount a swap volume causes startup to hang?
I have a mdadm RAID setup complete with a swap volume. I can use the volume for swap easy enough, but when I go to mark it as swap in the fstab, I get a system startup hang.
# /dev/md125
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Mounting a VirtualBox shared folder on boot with fstab in OpenSuse 11.3
I have followed the steps found here, however, the share is not mounted on boot. The share will mount if i run 'mount -a' after booting. Why would the share not mount on boot?
1 - Set up a ...
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UNIX - mount: only root can do that
I need to allow a non-root user to mount/unmount a device. I am a total noob when it comes to UNIX, so please dumb it down for me.
I've been looking all over teh interwebz to find an answer and it ...
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Configure CIFS mount point permissions
On my Ubuntu machine I am mounting a CIFS share by having the following in my /etc/fstab
//netgear0/photos /media/netgear0-photos cifs ...
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How to mount curlftpfs in fstab
How can I permanently mount a remote FTP directory in fstab with curlftpfs, so it will be accessible for the common users on the machine?
I am using Linux Slackware.
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Why bind-mount /var/tmp to /tmp?
I've read in several places that it is recommended to bind-mount /var/tmp to /tmp.
This can be done by adding the following line to /etc/fstab:
/tmp /var/tmp none rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,bind 0 0
How ...
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Is it possible to automatically mount a hot-swappable drive when it is turned on?
In my PC, I have a hot-swap drive. Usually I keep it off to save power. I only really use it when accessing from another PC on the network. Is it possible to configure /etc/fstab to mount this drive ...
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Which options to put in /etc/fstab for / partition? (ArchLinux)
I am installing ArchLinux and I don't know which options to put for the / partition in /etc/fstab. On ArchWiki they suggest defaults,noatime, but on my LinuxMint options are just errors=remount-ro ...
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Pysdm has disabled my ability to write to my storage partition
I have a dual boot setup with Windows 7 and Mint 13 Cinnamon. As well as their respective partitions, I also have a large one (NTFS) for storing all my music, videos, documents etc. I downloaded ...
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Is there any GUI tool to configure /etc/fstab?
I have little experiences in configuring the 'fstab'. I'm looking for any GUI tool that helps me with this. If possible based on gtk and should be available in Debian.
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/etc/fstab - mount a remote filesystem that all users can read/write to/from
I'm kinda new to Linux admin. I'm trying to mount a remote filesystem (root@mydomain1:/home/eamorr/250GB) to /mnt/old. I have the keys setup fine for passwordless login (root user - is this a good ...
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How to permanently mount ntfs drive in WUBI installation mode?
I have a Windows 7 installed as my primary operating system on my C:\ drive. I have another ntfs partition, D:.
Ubuntu is installed using WUBI on C:\Ubuntu, which makes C:\ accessible through ...
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mounts not present in fstab. where are they?
my debian system is using tmfs for a few things, notably /tmp
and it's using a rather small size for it. And it's nowhere to be found in my /etc/fstab
i guess i could just add the entry in fstab and ...
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My virtualbox fstab will not auto-mount on reboot?
I am able to mount my drive manually like this (ubuntu):
sudo mount -t vboxsf C_DRIVE /mnt/saga_c
But when I try and add it to my fstab it does not mount when I restart the machine. Is there ...
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mount cifs through fstab non readable/writable
I have FreeNAS server and domain-controller with Windows Server 2008.
I use OpenSuse 11.4 and my Windows account have full access to FreeNAS CIFS share.
I can connect through any filemanager with smb ...
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How do I configure fstab so that a partition can be used by different users simultaneously?
My intent is to set up a drive that any user can read to, write from, and execute on. Moreover, the users must be able to use the drive at the same time.
I have my fstab entry set up like this:
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Cygwin fstab - what am I doing wrong?
I'm trying to automount my Windows home directory over my Cygwin home directory. If I run the mount command manually it works fine, but putting the mountpoint into /etc/fstab doesn't seem to work:
$ ...
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fstab on boot: mount when device is plugged in
I have an external USB drive which I want to be mounted automatically on boot when it is plugged in. With the current settings in fstab, mount will try to mount it even when it is not available, which ...
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debootstrap creates blank fstab (“UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM”) - how do i configure fstab for the first time?
I've been following this tutorial to create a custom amazon ec2 image. It looks like debootstrap doesn't set up the fstab anymore.
When I get to the mount /proc step, it complains:
warning: can't ...
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Removable vs fixed mount points in Linux
What makes a mount point removable in Linux? I am using Gentoo Linux with Gnome 3.2, and I find it annoying that some of my drives (ex: /dev/sdb) appear as removable but not the others (ex: /dev/sdc, ...
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Linux - Advanced automounting via /etc/fstab file
I have a simple server with 6 hard disk drives (all SATA) inside of it. They are in a simple JBOD (just a bunch of disks) mode, so Linux just shows the following devices (assume each one has a single ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 “The destination is read-only” - thumbdrive - gnome error?
I have ubuntu 12.04
My problem is, i can't get write access any usb device like thumbdrive, sd-card or digital camera using GNOME 3.4.1.
Both fat32 and ntfs filesystems won't work.
From terminal i ...
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How to mount filesystem at boot when filesystem exist
I have Linux mint 13 maya installed on USB Pendrive (my portable linux). I run it on different computers. Is there a way to set the fstab to auto mount the hard drive from X computer at boot?
So far ...
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Mount -a on reboot after modifying /etc/fstab
I added the third line to /etc/fstab.
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs ...
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Mac Lion: fstab is deprecated. so what replaces it to prevent a partition from mounting?
If fstab is deprecated in Lion (and before, I think?) how does one, properly, prevent a partition from mounting on system boot?
This is loosely related to this question which as of this post has no ...
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how to correctly mount fat32 partition in Ubuntu in order to preserve case
I've found there are couple of problems might be related how my FAT32 partition was mounted.
I hope you can help me to solve the problem. I also included the command I used to help others when they ...
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How do I load Ubuntu into RAM and boot from it?
The Problem
I have a USB flash drive which, among Windows PE and other things, has an Ubuntu 11.04 system on a virtual (file-based) partition:
<drive>/ubuntu/disks/boot.disk mount point ...
