Questions tagged [mount]
Mount is the process of making available to the computer a new file system device, like a disk drive or a network share.
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Alias to attempt mounting multiple times doesn't work correctly
I have the following in my .bashrc
alias ext='sudo mount /dev/sd'{b..d}'1 /ext/hdd || sudo'
I intended the alias to mount my external hard drive without having to worry about the semi-random ...
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fstab drive auto-mounted to wrong (non-existent) dev
I ran into a curious problem today.
ls /media/Personal would yield ls: reading directory .: Input/output error.
According to mount, that folder was mounted from /dev/sdb1. Yet according to blkid, I ...
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About using sshfs as multi-user file system (different hosts) and potential problems
I have a large online storage for backups which I mainly access through sshfs. Since I am using encfs for encryption (I know about the security concerns but even weak encryption is better than no ...
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Can't ssh to GCE instance after mounting /home
After creating a new instance (+ attached disk in /dev/sdb) and sshing to it via browser, i'm running:
[root@instance-01 ~]# mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sdb
[root@instance-01 ~]# mkdir /media/disk
[root@...
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How to mount nfs share from docker container?
I can see the shares of the server:
[root@sandbox /]# showmount -e 192.168.0.111
Export list for 192.168.0.111:
/RAIDPOOL02/vers *
/RAIDPOOL02/prod *
/RAIDPOOL02/pipeline *
When I attempt to ...
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Mount HTTP Serverlocally
i have a HTTP server in windows machine.so i want to mount that to my Linux machine locally.Is that possible.How we can do that.We can mount FTP using curlftpfs.Is there any thing for HTTP.I am using ...
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mount http server as filesystem
I am trying to mount HTTP locally.Using SSHFS its working fine.But for Windows systems, or systems without SSH we cant use SSHFS.For example we can mount FTP locally using curlftp.For HTTP we have any ...
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I connected my usb hdd driver. CentOS7 don't mount it
Unfortunately, my usb driver don't detect on CentOS7.
This is on message i got.
Error mounting /dev/sdc1 at
/run/media/root/f4786057-a556-4cc8-a465-9b066b12a15b: Command-line
`mount -t "ext4" -...
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Can't mount any dmg El Capitain
Help! I just started having an issue where I can't mount any DMG files on my Macbook Pro! I recently upgraded to El Capitain and everything seemed to be fine until today. Here's what I noticed, which ...
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How to mount ISO as DVD by virtualbox?
I am trying to run an old program written for win98. I downloaded the win98 vmware image from here: https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-98/98-second-edition I am able to start the system, but every ...
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How to remove USB stick properly and without elevation when no drive letter is assigned [duplicate]
I have a USB stick which has no drive letter assigned because its only partition is encrypted with VeraCrypt. Before removing the stick from my computer physically, of course I first dismount the ...
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Is it possible to take any OS iso and use it to install to a hard drive WHILE staying on windows?
Say i have some hard drives, and each of them needs to install its own OS to it, and i have a windows machine, and i can also hot swap these hard drives, is it possible to take for example a Ubuntu ...
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fstab ssh mount eating network and CPU
I've recently bought a NAS (WD MyCloud) and connected it to my router. I'm able to see it on the network and connceting through SSH. I was also able to put an fstab entry to automount a folder in my ...
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Mount specific fstab entry
Sometimes you need to disconnect and reconnect mounts that have gone bad and don't want to disconnect + reconnect the entire list of fstab entries.
Is this possible without having to basically rerun ...
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Are there any reasons you don't see people mounting external file shares to a folder in Windows?
It's clearly possible mount an external file share to a folder as you would in Linux using sshfs, in Windows, but I haven't really seen anyone do this. The only potential downsides to this I can ...
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samba mount failed with "CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -6" and "is not a valid block device"
Environment:
server: Windows
client: RHEL 6.7 (samba-common-3.6.23-20.el6.x86_64) or Debian Wheezy (samba-common-bin 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u7)
Client's /etc/fstab:
//10.0.0.10/share/ /media/smb cifs ...
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Samba - Create Subdirectory Shares with their own permissions
I have a Samba share containing many folders like this:
share
- folderA
- folderB
- folderC
- folderD
There are around 20 users accessing those shares. Every user can have their individual ...
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Unstable MTP mount Android device on Linux
I have Linux Mint 17.1 (rebecca) MATE edition and a HTC One mini 2. My computer is able to mount the device, and I sometimes get access to both the internal memory and the SD card in the phone.
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How to mount multiple Windows remote directories and change a file on each?
I need to mount about 30 windows directories. I have a file that I need to change in c:\users\test\file.txt. the file currently contains text and I need to overwrite it with another file (it is a ...
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mounting a network drive cifs mac osx
I've been handed a mac and I'm having issues. I had an ubuntu setup where I would type:
sudo mount -t cifs //fs/CakeRecipes /mnt/fs/CakeRecipes -o username=fegur,domain=KitchenLord,iocharset=utf8,...
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What is a prescriptive way for managing the permissions for mounted volumes in Alpine-based Docker?
When you build an image you can assign ownership (chown) and change permissions (chmod) of paths within the image. However, when a volume is mounted from either the host or another container the ...
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Mac OS 10.9 external hfs formated disk access via terminal mount command?
I have a 2Tb harddisk connceted via USB toaster to my MacMini Mavericks. It was used to recuperate as much data as possible from my son's MacBook Pro (OS 10.6.8) before reformatting and reinstalling ...
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how to mount a container to a specific file path?
when we use "-v" argument in "docker run" command, we can specific {src path from host}:{path in container}, e.g
docker run -v /var/volumns/v1:/var/docker/v1ref ...
but how about mounting a data-...
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How can I remount external drives after a power failure?
I know I can run a script that basically does this: sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/my_flashdrive/. Is there a better way to do this on a small server with many external drives?
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Mount Hard Drives in Raid 0
I used 2x 4TB Hard Drives in my Synology NAS in Raid 0. After buying a new NAS, I wanted to copy the data directly from the hard drives to my Ubuntu Machine, so I attached them via SATA. Now I am ...
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Docker / Windows Container: how to mount a host folder as data volume on Windows 2016
How to mount a volume from Windows host to Windows guest system?
I am on Windows Server 2016 TP4 using Docker.
Following the documentation on
https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/containers/...
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Mount with kernel NTFS and not NTFS-3G
I often want to copy files from a Windows machine to linux using an external drive formatted with NTFS. Since this is entirely read-only using NTFS-3G slows down the copy process but the only way I ...
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External HDD - File created from OSX is not visible in OpenWrt (Linux)
I am using an external HDD as a media server. The HDD is formated as exFAT with GPT (from Windows).
I noticed that files created from OS X while the HDD was mounted on my Mac are not visible after ...
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Alternatives to professional data rescue [closed]
I have a broken external hard drive that spins, but won't come up in /dev, and thus I can't mount it and run ddrescue on it. (I've rescued many drives before using this method.)
When the drive doesn'...
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Raspbian system keeps renaming partitions
I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Jessie Lite (the headless version) and I've been using as a file dump and a git server for a little while. I plugged an external USB hard drive into it for it to ...
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Autologin and mount encrypted volume in KDE 5
On my machine, I have Fedora 23 (Server) and KDE 5.19. SELinux is deactivated. Furthermore, I have an encrypted home volume (using LUKS). As soon as the user logs in on the SDDM greeter, the encrypted ...
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Remount of USB drive partition on /boot silently failing after umount
I set up an openSUSE 42.1 installation where the /boot partition is located on a USB flash drive, while everything else is using LVM volumes inside LUKS containers. So far everything seems to work ...
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Move files from Linux disk img to Windows to Linux server and keep permissions?
I have a backup disk image that I am trying to upload to my server. The problem is that the disk image is corrupted according to Linux. However, using DiskInternals Linux Reader on Windows I can open ...
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GPT partition type for ext4 filesystem
My disk is formatted using GPT. I created a new partition and by default it was create as 'Linux filesystem' (gdisk code 8300).
When I am trying to mount it via fstab
/dev/sda4 /vmguests ...
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External hard drive spins down using NTFS but not EXT4 (Raspbian)
I have a new 2015/2016 model Seagate Expansion Desktop (STEB2000300) connected to a Raspberry Pi. I have set on the drives firmware (in Windows 7) so that it turns off automatically after a quick 3 ...
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Mount second SSD disc to existing file system
I have a 256GB OS SSD, and another new 256GB SSD, i would like to expand my C:/ partition to this new drive, effectively expanding the C:/ partition to 512GB
Instead of 2x256GB partitions
1x512GB C:...
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How to debug slow samba share by Nautilus?
I have Fedora 23 with Gnome 3 and Nautilus 3.18.5-1.fc23. I have troubles with SMB speeds by using Nautilus. It is about 4.4MB/s, while by any other methods (e.g. smbclient from terminal) I got 11MB/s ...
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OS X: mount_nfs & automount behave differently
I have an OS X El Capitan computer and a Linux Mint NFS server, both attached to the same OS X El Capitan Open-Directory Server.
The exports of the server look like this:
/Volumes/PDISK2 10.0.0.0/16(...
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eCryptFs: Unable to mount after password change in recovery mode
I have reseted my user password using recovery mode.
Unfortunately after this operation I am unable to login into my account because my home directory is encrypted.
I can't mount my Private using ...
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Mount Phyical Sata HDD to Two VM's at the same time?
I am running proxmox on an HP Proliant ML350 G5. I want to Mount a Physical Sata hard drive to two VM for simultaneous Read/Write. I can add the disk to the VM's but will data corruption or errors ...
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What is the noauto mount flag for?
Entries in fstab exist ONLY to specify things to mount at system boot or manually with mount -a, right? But I was reading up on the noauto mount flag, which apparently makes corresponding fstab ...
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Mounting partition as a virtual disk in Windows?
I'm trying to mount a partition which contains a whole MBR partition table as a virtual disk on Windows, but I haven't found any soulutions for that.
Here's how I do it in Linux:
With fdisk -lu /dev/...
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Can't access files in SMB share
I'm trying to mount some share from my synology NAS via SMB. I'm using Linux Mint and when I mount it over the GUI ("Computer"->"Network"->"NAS"->"Sharename") everything works fine.
But I want it to ...
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Apple OSX - Prevent second partition asking for FileVault Password
wonder if anyone can help...
So my work provides me with a MacBook Pro, what I have done is created a second partition with a second installation of OSX for personal use when at home. Both ...
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Filesystem failing to mount on boot, but OK when mounted manually
I'm not sure when/why this started happening, but I have a RAID array entered in my /etc/fstab to mount on boot to /mnt/data. Up until today everything has been fine, and it's been that way for ...
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How to create virtual block devices from file? [duplicate]
Let's have unknown disk drive uncompressed raw image (created for example by dd if=/dev/sda of=image) in single file.
If we knew the disk layout, we could mount particular partitions from the file as ...
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What are my options for setting user permissions with a CIFS share?
I have a NAS that only allows CIFS mounts on a Linux machine. I would like to set it up on a server, that I don't have root access to (but can ask every once in a while the root to do something on the ...
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Kali Linux - Debootstrap error Failed to determine codename for the release
Installing the new Kali Linux 2016 rolling release to the HDD via USB.
I made a bootable USB using Universal USB. Booted off the USB and selected "Graphical Install", I had an issue at the beginning ...
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How to configure Windows 7 firewall outbound rules for symlinked applications?
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate.
I have set the built in firewall in outbound white list mode (block unless allowed by a rule).
Now I'm trying to configure some outbound rules for the built in ...
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How can I recover the files on an SDXC flash card from a suddenly dead Galaxy Note 2?
I am trying to recover the files on an SDXC card (SanDisk 64GB) that was in a Galaxy Note II. The Note 2 itself died suddenly, and it doesn't seem recoverable. Rather than seek another Galaxy just to ...