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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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Mounting Directories with bind & different permissions

I’m running Ubuntu 13.04 & trying to mount a folder using bind in /etc/fstab. Shown below is one of many similar entries; /media/Storage1/test /media/Storage1/WebDAV/Alex none bind,uid=...
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OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard no longer mounting an external USB drive

I have a 1TB generic external hard drive containing a single HFS partition. I originally formatted this using Disk Utility and it worked fine. Now, for some reason, it's not auto-mounting when I start ...
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Is it possible to mount an ISO image in Windows 8 without third-party software?

I often have to access ISO images to install software on my machine. Typically I install a third-party tool to mount the ISO file and expose it as a virtual drive within Windows. Examples of third-...
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/etc/fstab equivalent in Windows

There's a file called /etc/fstab in Linux OS. It is a configuration file that contains information of all the partitions and storage devices in the computer. Basically it contains the mount ...
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Mounting a complete disk image rescued by ddrescue

I've recovered a complete NTFS disk with ddrescue in Linux. The catch is I didn't just rescue the partition (sdX#) but complete disk (sdX) with partition table. It's really easy to mount disk ...
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NFS: Network disconnect causes Gnome Nautilus to hang / Jumping progress bars

I mount NFSv4 export via /etc/fstab and mount and use the shared folder in nautilus. There are two issues: When I copy a large file (around 4 GB) to the NFS server, the progress bar rapidly goes to ...
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Loading and unloading ISO files in Windows 8

I saw on one site that the new Windows 8 could load ISO images without the help of other programs. Is Windows 8 creating a new drive for every ISO? Or does it have one virtual drive to load all ISOs ...
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How to use /etc/fstab and/or automount with sshfs on OSX?

I'm attempting to automount a directory from a remote Ubuntu machine on my Mavericks Mac. SSHFS works perfectly when mounted manually, in many different ways. The standard sshfs mount works great: ...
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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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Use hard disk image like a regular hard disk on Linux

If you have a hard disk image (including partition table, multiple partitions,...), is it possible to let Linux treat it as a regular hard disk? By "regular hard disk" I mean I would like to have the ...
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Permission denied on Chromebook even with sudo

When I compile my C++ code on my Chromebook's shell, I get the error bash: ./a.out: Permission denied. This happens even when I run with sudo: sudo: unable to execute ./a.out: Permission denied. Why ...
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How do I restrict drive access from Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL with Ubuntu

I would like to set up WSL (Ubuntu) in such a way that the root user in WSL doesn't have access to all the drives in windows. Ideally they're able to do everything within the linux world, but aren't ...
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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 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 CD/...
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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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Looking for definitive answer to accessing a network drive/NAS/SMB drive via Windows 7 HOME and Windows 7 Professional. Is it possible and how?

I want to be able to access my Lacie 2Big network drive in Windows 7 Explorer. I have a machine with Windows 7 Home and one with Windows 7 Professional. Neither Windows 7, home or pro, can access the ...
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How do software .dmg files mount or work in OS X?

I am a new Mac user and have an iMac. Coming from the Windows world where everything is installer based, OS X seems to mount .dmg files and run them. I've seen this happen prior to an install and ...
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Mount hibernated Windows partition

I am trying to mount my Windows partition at boot. It works fine when Windows is in shutdown, but when Windows is hibernated, it can't be mounted as read/write, and I am sent to the root shell at boot....
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Stop a network drive from automatically mapping

I have a network drive that I originally set to automatically connect on login. However, now I need it to stop doing that. Even if I manually un-mount it as soon as I log back on it is back. To ...
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Mount cifs for 2 users

I would like to mount a cifs drive for 2 user accounts on a Linux server. I have no trouble mounting the cifs drive for me, or for sudo, but I need to mount it so that two users can access it: sudo ...
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Mounting HFS+ partition in Ubuntu

Update: I was able to solve the problem with this solution I want to read data from my SSD from my broken MacBook. I connected it to my Ubuntu 16.04 PC and used the command given in the third answer:...
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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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How to mount a VirtualBox .vdi disk on Linux?

I am running Fedora on a VirtualBox. Sometimes to allow for performing some real hardware testing, I need to run my development environment on a physical machine. So I need the hard disk of the ...
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User space application for CIFS

I need to mount my windows share on linux machine which does not have CIFS kernel module. Is there any user space application available equivalent to CIFS kernel module? Or is there simply anyway I ...
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Mount Windows partition with read-write permission if possible

I'm looking for equivalent of -errors={continue|remount-ro|panic} option which is available for i.a. mount.nfs4 but not for the mount.ntfs. I need it to mount Windows 10 partition (via /etc/fstab) ...
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Why does Ubuntu mount the wrong partition as root?

I am messing around with a problem of Ubuntu mounting a backup of my root partition residing on a different disk as / instead of the real one. I think the problem has been triggered by a clash of ...
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What is windows way to do `mount -o loop,rw,offset=X`?

I want to mount with -o loopoffset=70254080 an ./raspbian-jessie-lite.img onto ./mntpt folder. The rw parameter is the key here - I need to edit .iso insides (set wifi login\password) and save it ...
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How to mount an iso image on Linux?

I need to mount an ISO image on Linux. On Windows I use Daemon Tools, but how is this done on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4?
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Mount remote UNIX directory in Windows 7

I have ssh access to a UNIX machine. I was wondering if there was a way to mount my home directory as a windows drive, so that I'm able to edit the UNIX files with in windows. Any free software would ...
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How to mount an old encrypted disk on Ubuntu

I've got an old hard disk, containing an encrypted partition with a file system on it. It was created (and used) several years ago, the way it was done back then was using losetup with the twofish ...
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Can't mount hard drive. Ubuntu 12.04

I am trying to recover some pictures on my 320 GB Hard Disk, so I put in a Live Ubuntu CD and am in that right now. In the devices list, it shows my USB drive, but not my 320 GB Hard Disk. I can see ...
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How can I bind mount a directory with a space in it?

I have a drive mounted at /media/ that contains a directory with a space in the name - let's call it "My Stuff". I would like to bind mount it to "My Stuff" in my home directory. I tried the ...
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How to mount NFS share in Cygwin?

The question Mounting NFS in Cygwin suggests it is possible to directly mount a NFS share (we have a NFS server running on a linux machine) in the Cygwin file system, even though the The Cygwin Mount ...
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"NTFS signature is missing." How to mount this HDD? (or is it password protected?)

I'm trying to mount a hard disk (SATA-3), but I rest stuck at the error: NTFS signature is missing Is it possible that a hard disk is protected by a password or has another kind of protection? How ...
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Cannot Acess Folder on Externally Mounted HD

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit, and I've mounted my previous computer's Vista 32-bit hard drive through an external enclosure so that I can access my files on my new computer. I can access every part of ...
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Mounting OSX hard-drive on linux

I believe the motherboard on my macbook died, so I'm trying to recover the information on the disk. I pulled the hard drive from the macbook and plugged it into one of my SATA ports on my Ubuntu ...
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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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Force unmount in Ubuntu, to fix problems after netbook sleep mode

The only thing I actually need to know here, is how to force an unmount while device is busy. umount -f doesn't work. The following description is just background for why I need to do this, in case ...
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Finding the drive letter of the most recently mounted xvhd or vhd file in batch?

I found these handy ways to mount/unmount a xvhd or vhd file in a command prompt / batch file. However; that still leaves me with one question; assuming I'm specifying the file I want to mount ...
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mount an external drive in Ubuntu

Under Ubuntu, I am trying to mount an external hard drive . (1). First I tried to find out the name of the device: $ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 255 heads, 63 ...
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Why is it not possible to resize/move mounted (non logical) partitions at runtime?

While searching, why it is not possible to resize a mounted partition I mostly found answers like this: It is filesystem and partition dependant, different flesystems and partitions will use ...
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock

I want to mount a hard disk in remote debian server to retrieve some important data. The fdisk -l info of the disk : Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors ...
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Directories' permisions for automounted USB hard drive in Ubuntu 9.10

I've noticed that directories' permissions for my automounted USB hard drive formatted in NTFS in Ubuntu 9.10 are 700. This is inconvenient for me. On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS it was 777 everywhere and it was ...
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How does one 'mount' a partition in Windows 7?

A friend's Windows 7 laptop no longer allows access to the 'D:' Drive. The partition is still there, and contains his data. Booting with Knoppix we were able to mount the partition and access all ...
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partition being mounted as noexec, not fstab, what else can it be?

I have one partition being mounted as noexec. It shows on the mount output, but there is nothing on fstab to do that. Where is the noexec coming from? my fstab: UUID=1fbb29fe-cef2-4cc2-9b1e-...
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Why is a mounted NTFS partition not showing up in the Linux file manager?

The internal hard disk on my computer has three NTFS Windows partitions (Win 7 main, boot, and recovery), and several Ext4 Linux Partitions (Mint and swap). I'm temporarily doing most of my work on ...
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GPT partition shown in fdisk, but gparted shows no partitions

This is very frustrating. I haven't been able to find anyone else with a similar problem. First of all, my prebuilt windows PC stopped working, I can no longer turn it on, and I'm getting it sent in ...
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I used mv ./*/* to flatten a directory on a ntfs filesystem, without add . to the end of the command, now all of my files are gone

How can I recover these files? I used: mv ./*/* when it was supposed to be mv ./*/* . Now all of my files are gone.
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Cannot mount or move Virtual Hard Disk .vhdx file

I created a .vhdx file using disk2vhd from sysinternals, but I'm unable to use it. The virtual machine in Hyper-V won't start. I can't mount it either. I t gives me the following error even though I ...
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Mounting a USB device in Linux

I have a problem when trying to work with USB devices mounted with user 'root'. I explain, I mount a USB device as root under command line (console mode only), and I can work with that device with no ...
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