fstab is a file on in Unix / POSIX systems that stores settings about where devices system startup are mounted.
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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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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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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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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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Set proper rights for sshfs mountpoint so it can be shared with samba
I have a domain hoster that provides access via SSH.
My platforms are:
Gentoo 2.6.36-r5
Windows (XP/Vista/7)
I work on my Windows, I use Gentoo to do all the magic Windows can't do.
Therefore I ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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How to Set “<options>” in fstab - Manual Mounting is Successfull
I am not real familiar with fstab yet, so I have a couple questions. When I use this command to mount devices:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=admin //192.168.1.134/share_name /mnt/share_name
With ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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fstab: When do you use the “dump” and “fsck” options?
I found a great tutorial on how to use fstab: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html
Using this tutorial, I was able to successfully get my SIMPLE mounting needs working. But during the ...
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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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Is there a difference between using pmount and mount?
Is there any difference between using pmount to mount a device (e.g., USB drive) and using mount with user in the 4th column of /etc/fstab?
Essentially, is the only purpose of pmount to allow the ...
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What are the default fstab mount parameters in Debian?
I've accidentaly corrupted my fstab and cut the ends of lines. There are now disk uid, mount point, filesystem for root and swap, but the mount parameters are missing.
The system boots as readonly.
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Mounting a partition as your Music folder in Ubuntu 10.4
I have installed a new hard drive and partitioned some space that I am wanting to use for keeping my Music files on. I have entered a line into the /etc/fstab file that I believe mounts the partition ...
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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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cannot mount remote partition using fstab/fuse
Using a combination of http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/01/02/mount-remote-directories-securely-with-ssh-ubuntu-6061-610/ and http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html I figured I could mount the ...
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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 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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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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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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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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Ubuntu network share fails to mount, can't get to command prompt on boot?
One of my network shares is down, which isn't a big deal, but now my Ubuntu instance fails to boot properly. On boot it will display the screen giving me the option to skip the mount, or do a manual ...
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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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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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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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Proper fstab options for the disk
I have the following line in /etc/fstab
/dev/sdb3 /media/mybook xfs rw,auto,users 0 0
The device is properly mounted and seen by root, but not by the normal ...
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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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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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Automatically mounting windows share in Fedora 12
I'm trying to automatically mount a windows share in a Fedora 12 instance (FC12).
When I manually mount things work:
mount -t cifs //nas01/servers -o username=guest,password=myPassword ...
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mount Command Works, but fstab Version Fails - Samba Issue
I can mount a share with this command:
sudo mount -o username=user,password=pass //192.168.5.227/share /mnt/share
And in my fstab I have this line:
//192.168.5.227/share /mnt/share cifs ...
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EC2 volume not mounting via fstab; manual mount successful
I have a Micro instance running Ubuntu 10.04 x86 (AMI ami-3e02f257). It has the OS volume attached at /dev/sda1 and a second volume attached at /dev/sdf (reported as ...
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mounted shares are not writable
I have several shares that are on my windows 7 system. The system I am accessing them from is an kubuntu 9.10 running gnome.
These are the lines I have in my /etc/fstab file
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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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what to do when fstab breaks?
Which is the best way to fix broken fstab?
I think that i could do that with some live linux distro. First serch for partitions and mount them to temporary created /temproot. Manually mount partitions ...
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Automounting with fstab not working on Ubuntu guest VM on OSX host
I've been setting up a new development environment using VirtualBox so I can sandbox my services and such in their own VM. It's an Ubuntu-based VM, which loads as a headless instance that I SSH into ...
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Cant open file for writing with cifs mount
Hi I have mounted my QNAP on to a drive on my ubuntu machine using the following fstab entry
//<ip-address>/Documents/Aly /home/aly/Documents cifs ...
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How to write as a normal user to a mounted dm-crypt/LUKS partition?
I managed to setup an encrypted partition that's mounted on boot using dm-crypt/LUKS.
The relevant entry from my /etc/fstab:
/dev/mapper/st_crypt /media/st ext4 defaults 0 2
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Allowing users to mount /dev/loop0
I have a following problem. I need to let normal users mount device /dev/loop0 to a predefined directory /mnt/data. The filesystem of the device is unknown and is to be defined when mount command is ...
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Filesystem handling for embedded Linux device
I am developing a device that will run Linux as its operating system.
The device is a small form factor X86 device with a flash drive exposed as a SATA-device. So it is not very dissimilar from any ...
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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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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 ...
