Mount Before a computer can make use of a storage device, this device must be mounted on the computer's own file system. The location where the device is mounted is known as the mount point. To access the device contents, one needs only to access the mount point. Mounting a device ensures that the ...
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Compressed, read-write file system within a single file?
Is there any free Windows software which can create compressed archives, and subsequently mount them transparently (with write capability) onto another directory?
So far, the only such program I have ...
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External hard drive only visible in System Profiler, doesn't mount, not visible in Disk Utility (Mac)
I have an external hard drive that does not mount to my Mac laptop, nor is it visible in Disk Utility. It is, however, visible in the System Profiler under the USB section. Any suggestions as to how I ...
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Why doesn't DroboElite mount all my volumes?
I am using a DroboElite with 8 hard drives, connected over the LAN using the iSCSI protocol. I have defined several volumes (2 x 2TB, 1 x 4TB and 1 x 8TB) and mapped drive letters to each of them (no ...
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By-passing default permissions when mounting HFS+ volumes in linux
I have a dual booting macbook pro with Snow Leopard and Kubuntu 11.10, and want to read (don't care about write) my home Mac home directory when I'm running Kubuntu.
I can mount it without any ...
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Mount USB drive on Ubuntu: “Not Authorized”
I'm having some problems with my Ubuntu 11.10 installation on a Toshiba A300-16l laptop, of which the primary problem appears to be allowing permissions escalation.
I want to backup my home directory ...
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Need more swap space - out of disk slots
A server I am using was setup incorrectly with only 1G of swap space.
There are no more hard disk physical slots.
There is content on the existing disks.
I would like to resize the partition, but ...
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Why is “System Reserved” mounted in Windows 7 and how can I make it hidden again?
A fresh installation of Windows 7, however the System Reserved ~100MB is mounted at G:.
Why is this? How can I make it hidden again?
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Why sometimes my external Hard disk 'un-mount' and then is auto remounted in different folder?
i've a VIA Epia C3 mini server running Debian 6.0.
I also have an external EXT4 500 gb Hard disk connected via USB 2.0.
The problem is that sometimes (a lot of times), the hard disk automatically ...
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How to mount HFS+ drive and ignore permissions
I installed Ubuntu and Windows on my MacBook and Ubuntu is my primary OS; however, all of my media stays on my OSX partition. I want to be able to access it (at least my OSX user's home folder) from ...
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How to make mount points inaccesible for any user or process in Ubuntu, when no filesystem is using it?
I have noticed that my mountpoints in /media often acquire underscores, double or triple at time, when I use Vuze which is configured to save the files on a mountpoint directory in /media.
This is ...
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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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Free (as in Freedom) or open source utility to mount shares via SSH/SFTP in Windows? [closed]
For Linux based systems there is the Free (as in Freedom) sshfs which lets you "mount" a network share via SSH or SFTP.
Is there an equivalent that works on Micro$oft Windows, usable both in XP and ...
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Mount SMB/AFP share on network reconnect
There's a myriad of possibilities for mounting shares upon Login within OSX. I'm after having it done when a network connection is restored.
Ideally:
Mount the share
connection lost
connection ...
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Mounting a LVM volume as normal user.
Here is what is observed:
sharad@nt535:~$ ls -l /mnt
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 sharad sharad 4096 2012-01-17 17:14 MyPicsAndVids
drwxr-xr-x 2 sharad sharad 4096 2012-01-17 17:14 SharadHomeDir
...
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How to force a drive to mount at startup in Ubuntu
In Ubuntu I have an external USB drive that gets automounted when accessed through Nautilus. The problem is that if I first open up a terminal and try to access the files, they're not there. I have to ...
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Cannot mount Windows share anymore from Debian Linux
Since I upgraded my Debian 'testing' with an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday (Wed Jan 6th 2012), I cannot mount anymore a Windows share.
The share is still available, as I can connect to it using ...
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How can I mount my photo camera for a write access?
I plug a camera to ubuntu 11.10.
It is automatically recognized and browsed with nautilus or through terminal.
But when I copy files to my camera no copying happened.
How can files be written to the ...
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Mount directory as virtual dvd/cd (not disk)
I would like to emulate mounting as a virtual cd or dvd, so Mac OS X Lion thinks it is a real cd / dvd.
I have already tried ToastMount, however it hasn't been compiled for Intel processors and I ...
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Unable to create filesystem on new partition - Amazon EC2 instance
I created a new partition /dev/xvda1p1 on linux amazon ami.
After that i am unable to create a filesystem.
What is the issue?
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/xvda1: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
255 heads, 63 ...
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Where does OSX store volume names?
I'm curious as to where OSX stores the names of mounted volumes. For example, if I connect my external USB hard drive, mount it and change the name to something else, how does OSX remember the name ...
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External USB hard drive is read only but I want r/w
I recently formatted a hard drive as ext3 to get it to mount in CentOS 5. Now it automatically mounts when I connect it to the USB port, and mounts to /media/disk, but i am not able to write to it.
...
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filedisk fails to mount sparse image on Windows7
I have a problem with filedisk tool (http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/) on Windows 7.
I am creating FS image with mksparse:
mksparse ramdisk.vfat 4M
Then trying to mount it with filedisk tool:
...
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mount + mount limitation + exe mount from 20 machines to one server
I have more then diff 20 linux machines (Linux version - 5.1)
and all linux machines are connected VIA switch to one PXE server
Question: is it possible exe mount on the same time from each Linux ...
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Tool to mount a zip/rar/* archive as a Win drive and be able to read/write as a normal device?
I'm looking for some tool that, given a zip/rar/tar/* archive file, mounts it as a new Windows drive. Some tools are WinMount or WinArchive, but I need one that allows me to write/create/delete files ...
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Can't access folders mounted by sshfs after sleep
Often, when I mount a filesystem via ssh:
sshfs user@remote: ~/Mounts/Remote
and the machine hibernate (closing the Laptop lid) if I wake up the machine I can access the mounted folder. ...
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Handling offline Network Shares When using `net use` to mount at start up
I'm using net use x: "\\DEVICE\SHARE" /persistent:no in a batch file to connect to shares at start up. However, sometimes if I am offline or if the server/device is offline the command will hang for a ...
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No mounting a USB pendrive on Debian wheezy
The system seems to know that my pendrive in insert, but when I try to mount it, I cannot do it 'cause it not appears in /dev/.
I post the result of command
dmesg | tail -n 6
[ 647.763175] ...
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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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mounting network share using fstab with smbfs creates mount points as root
I am trying to mount my QNAP in ubuntu (running on a VM) by editing the /etc/fstab file. I have added the following line to /etc/fstab
//<ip-address>/Documents/Aly /home/aly/hydrogen/Documents ...
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Cannot get DaemonTools to show CD-Text from CUE sheet + WAV
I have been attempting to get DaemonTools to mount a CUE sheet which points to some audio files. I have filled in the CUE sheet with CD-TEXT information, however when I mount the image, DaemonTools ...
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Better mobile mounting (Preventing automount of specific disk / partition)
I am trying to improve the way in which my phone is mounted on my desktop. I would like to find a way to prevent a specific partition on a specific disk from being mounted on my desktop running ...
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Windows, same mountpoint for two different Drives
I want to use two different HDD's to making backups. The backups I make with acronis.
So I need a path for the Backup Destination, what have always to be the same, when Drive A is attached and when ...
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1answer
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TrueCrypt System Favorite Volume doesn't mount automatically on boot
I've encrypted my system partition using TrueCrypt and I've read that I can mount my encrypted data partition (TrueCrypt volume) on boot by making it a "System Favorite" and giving it the same ...
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1answer
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Automount external hard drive on Mac
I have an external drive plugged in to my MacPro via eSATA. At the moment, the disk only mounts if I log in. Since I am using the computer remotely, this is annoying since I have to open up VNC, log ...
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Mount Linux Drive in Two Places
I've been looking for a way to mount the same drive (e.g. /dev/sdd1) in two places on a hard drive. If I try using the command that I use to mount a drive in the first location again, I recieve the ...
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/dev name of already mounted device changes when a new USB device is inserted
I mount USB devices using the following command. I have no /etc/fstab entry, I mount these devices programmatically.
mount -o nodev LABEL=xyz mount-point
As soon as I attach another USB device, the ...
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How can I mount ext3 with restricted permissions, like setting uid, gid and umask?
I want to mount an ext3 filesystem on a device with uid, gid, umask options set. When I use these options during mount, I get an error.
Below is the command I am using to mount:
mount -t ext3 -o ...
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What is a good replacement for ExpanDrive?
I'm looking for a good ExpanDrive replacement. It doesn't have to be free.
I've been using ExpanDrive for the last two years or so, but starting the last few days, I got
a few BSOD under Windows 7 ...
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ubuntu 11.04 does not automount any usb drive / sd card / not even cd/dvd drive
In former version of Ubuntu I used I just had to plug in my usb drive, sd card, etc and it would show up and be mounted.
However, ever since I have 11.04 it won't do anything. I can mount it manually ...
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Linux - mount iso with lowercase directory names
I'm mounting an iso with:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /directory
what i need to change, to convert all directory and file names to lowercase?
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When and where does Wubi mount it's virtual disks?
My use of the wubi-new-virtual-disk command made Wubi start mounting this new virtual home disk over my /home folder. After the use of the script failed, I am left with Wubi constantly remounting an ...
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How do I unmount a tmpfs that is missing from /etc/mtab?
I have the following line in /etc/fstab:
none /home/hydra/tmp tmpfs user,noauto,size=1000M,uid=1001,gid=1001 0 0
I can do mount ~/tmp as user hydra and it gets mounted ok. The only problem is ...
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How do manually mount hard drive on mac?
My mac recently gave up and I'm trying to salvage whatever data I can from the hard drive. I was able to boot using the OSX Installation CD and fire up Disk Utility that basically told me that the ...
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How does Nautilus mount a partition as normal user?
I can only run the mount command with superuser privileges.
How can Nautilus do the same with normal access? How do things work inside?
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1answer
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How to mount a folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive?
As a follow-up on my question VMware Workstation 8: how to fake a bootable USB stick?
How can I mount a Windows folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive?
That way, I could mount the folder as a virtual ...
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Mounting a binary/shell file that returns files modified in the past x days
I know that you can find files in a path and sub directories modified in the past week with:
find -L /somepath -mtime -5 -type f
I could assign that to a job and have it run every night to create ...
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3answers
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How to find the /dev name of my USB device
I am running Ubuntu 11 on VmWare on Windows XP. I want to format an SD card in Ubuntu. But, I can't figure out which /dev/xxx device the SD card is.
I plug the card into the built-in socket of my ...
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Mount NTFS Windows partition on Ubuntu live CD
I'm using the newest Ubuntu live CD to restore my Windows partition. After booting my PC from the live CD I have access to the internet and so on but I cant see the NTFS drive. What should I do to ...
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How to only allow a program to write to a directory if it is mounted?
I have a program which writes some files to a directory. My problem is that if the directory isn't mounted for some reason, the program writes to the directory anyway, but the files end up in the ...
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does 'noatime' make sense for a read-only filesystem?
mount -o remount,ro,noatime
As the title says - if the filesystem is actually read-only, does noatime have any affect?
