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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How to mount 7 desktop pc's into a 7u rack? [closed]
I am clustering 7 desktop computers and would like to put them in a rack. I have an 8U rack and 1U will be taken up by the ethernet switch. I will take out the optical drives. I plan on putting each ...
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Can't mount a usb disk in my raspberry pi
When I execute "sudo blkid" I get:
/dev/mmcblk0p1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="boot" UUID="993B-8922" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: UUID="fc254b57-8fff-4f96-9609-ea202d871acf" TYPE="ext4"
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Linux machine restarting
I did some changes in /fsab ,also mounted some temporary mounts using mount command .Now the Problem is something has gone wrong and My machine is rebooting automatically after 3 min.
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fstab is empty. Is it possible to generate it from mtab?
Normally it should be fine with an empty fstab file (except one data disk). It looks like this:
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
LABEL=DATA /data ext4 auto,rw,relatime 0 0
But I am on an ...
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Change expandrive mount location
I am using expandrive to mount a remote linux drive on my Mac. It mounts to /Volumes/myremote. I want to mount it to /myremote. Is this possible? How can I accomplish it?
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Two questions about Windows Storage Spaces and Linux
So when I first configured my desktop I only had Windows 8.1 installed. When I installed my second hard-drive (I have Windows 8.1 and Linux on a separate SSD), I made the mistake of making it a ...
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What does mounting a drive on the /home directory do?
I am running a Rocks Cluster version of CentOS 6.5 and have two internal hard drives installed. When I installed the Rocks OS onto my machine it only made use of one of my two 250GB drives. I have ...
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Rsync doesn't allow me copy files into mounted filesystems
I configured rsyncd.conf for public access in my rpi:
log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
timeout = 600
max connections = 20
uid = nobody
gid = nogroup
read only = yes
list = yes
[public]
path = /home/pi/...
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Auto mount domain shares based on domain user groups
We are currently working getting some Linux computers integrated into our Active Directory domain at work. I have pretty much gotten everything set up but I am trying to figure out how to get Linux to ...
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Unable to mount 2TB NTFS hard drive in Ubuntu 14.04
Can somebody assist me on this one?
Error mounting /dev/sdg4 at /media/jote/DATA_4: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdg4" ...
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Mounted drive changed mount point after motherboard change in Ubuntu 14.04
I changed chassis and switched motherboards from an Asus Z87I-Pro to an Asus Z87-Pro - essentially the same except for form factors. While switching, I made note of how the hard drives were connected, ...
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Changing file permissions on an HFS+ filesystem
I ran the command fdisk -l to find out what my external drive is formatted to, I found out it's uses GPT partitions and the filesystem is HFS+.
When I try and create a new folder on the external ...
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Cifs share doesn't preserve permission configuration in smb.conf (775 instead of 777)
So I have a share on ubuntu that is accessed through both ubuntu and windows machines.
my relevant smb.conf is like this:
path = /share
create_mask = 0777
force create mode = 0777
security mask = ...
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How to view mounted CD drive in Solaris 10
Say I have a Solaris 10 Virtual machine VM mounted on vmware platform and I only have telnet terminal to connect to it. How do I see if this VM has a CD already mounted?
thanks
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Mounting a unionfs hides ALL lower-layer files
I have partitions in /dev/mmcblk0p5 and /dev/mmcblk0p7. I would like to union them together such that p5 is read-only and p7 holds the changes. I'm mounting p5 on /ro-root and p7 on /root-overlay.
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Error mounting fstab
I have read many questions and answers in this and other forums before asking.
I watched videos on Youtube to learn how to deal with the fstab file too.
So forgive me for bringing back this doubt ...
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how to mount a crashing HFS+ to ubuntu 14
I have a mac hard drive that is crashing that I am trying to pull all of the files off of. I want to be able to remove files from the drive so that I can narrow down where the issues are to try to ...
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Executing multiple commands using winexe
./bin/winexe -U <username>%<password> //<ip> "cmd.exe /c net use x: \\\\<ip>\\share /user:<user> <password>"
This command works fine, but for me to run another ...
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Store disc images on a hard drive
I'm cleaning up around my computer (A Win7 ultimate machine), and part of my plan is to rip all my program CDs and store them on a dedicated 1TB hard drive. My initial plan was to simply dump the ...
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Create an image of a partition that I can mount on windows/linux
I am going to change my PC but I would like to create an image of the partition of my old PC (windows is installed there) that can I use on my new PC (I mean just reading/writing data not running the ...
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Recovering data from possibly corrupted Truecrypt volume
I have an external hard drive (no system files on it) which has been encrypted using truecrypt.
Suddenly today when i tried to mount the hard drive, I got the following error:
Incorrect password or ...
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What do I have to do so I can get 2 users to be able to access disk drives / partitions at the same time?
I mounted a disk drive using UserA ==> /run/media/userA/myDisk .
userB is a member of the same group of userA.
Why can userB not access the mountpoints?
What do I have to do so I can get 2 users ...
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Custom Names for SMB shares on OSX
I have a number of (windows) networked drives that I need to connect to using my Mac - the trick is that on many of these servers I'd like to be able to connect directly to the c$ share. So I end up ...
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Can't mount external HDD. Device listed at lsusb but doesn't appear at /dev
Device works at Windows but doesn't appear at /dev. How can I mount it?
So let's go to the infos...
uname -a:
Linux deeptought 3.13.0-30-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 9 22:45:01 UTC 2014 x86_64 ...
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Ubuntu can't mount windows share
I want to access by termin a Windows share so on my Ubuntu 14.04 system I executed the following command:
sudo mount.cifs -o username=dana //192.168.1.4/Users /mnt/
After entering the sudo password ...
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better to mount storage using udev or fstab?
I could write rules to mount storage devices using fstab or udev. Obviously the syntax is different, and unless I'm mistaken, udev is more flexible and has access to far more information than fstab.
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mounting and accessing Encrypted LVM after reinstallation of Linux
I had Fedora installed on a LVM & had my /home & another file systems in it encrypted. ( i remember the passwords but forgot the cipher protocol used )
Now, I installed Ubuntu without ...
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Linux Mint Petra won't Auto-Mount USB Devices
I recently updated my OS to Mint Petra and am no longer able to plug-and-play my USB devices. Olivia would automatically mount my jump drives or external hard drives, and I don't see why Petra shouldn'...
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Mount NTFS disk in Windows 7 formatted in Ubuntu
I want to mount / assign a drive letter to the highlighted disk above, but that option is not available. The disk is formatted as NTFS in Ubuntu and contains around 1 TB data. How can I mount it in ...
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Why can't I create a soft link in Oracle VirtualBox from my Macbook Pro?
I have setup a VirtualBox (version 4.3.12) running on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.9). This VirtualBox is running CentOS 6.5. I can successfully SSH from the Macbook to the CentOS VM by doing ssh saqib@127....
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How to share/access files in CentOS running in VirtualBox from my Macbook Pro?
I have setup a VirtualBox running on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.9). This VirtualBox is running CentOS 6.5. I can successfully SSH from the Macbook to the CentOS VM by doing ssh [email protected] -p 3005
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Export Ubuntu 13 VMWare Home folder to be use on Mac OS X
I run Ubuntu 13 on VMWare Fusion on Mac OS X. I prefer to do my development on the Mac since the Mac keyboard and shortcuts on Ubuntu are either difficult to setup, or sometimes don't work.
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Linux: Sort /etc/fstab by the mountpoint field
On linux, how would you sort the /etc/fstab file by mountpoint?
I'm interested in sorting a section of fstab (whatever is mounted under /x) in such a way that parents are mounted before its children
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Mounted HDD not having enough permissions from Apache/PHP
Piwigo gallery, on apache and php.
The root system is a RAID 128GB. /var/www/html is on the root file system.
Mounted the 320GB hdd to /var/www/html/320 using defaults, it's an ext4 fs.
Put a ...
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Mount ISO image on Windows 7 [closed]
You can easily open a .dmg is OS X thanks to their drive utility application. However, there is not a hint of this functionality in Windows 7.
What's the best program for mounting a .iso ...
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Permanently mount multiple directories from different disks under /
I have SSD and HDD. Some directories like /var, /srv and /tmp should be on HDD, while /boot, /usr and /lib on SSD. But do I have to create separate partition for every single directory? I want to have ...
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How can I know if a partition is mounted or unmounted?
maybe this is a simple thing but I have the following doubt.
If I perform fdisk -l, in the output I can find these devices that represent 2 partitions on the /dev/sdb device that is my SD card:
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CIFS share got full while running script, all processes got stuck with a D State.What to do?
The title pretty much says it all.
I had a little script in charge of compressing and copying files to a MS Shared folder.
Apparently, one day last week other processes also had to copy files to the ...
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Automount LUKS encrypted USB HDD with keyfile auth in Mint/Cinnammon
My external backup HDD is LUKS encrypted and can be mounted with password or key file. When plugged in, Cinnammon asks me for a password and mounts it to /media/user/drivename. I want to change ...
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VBox Guest Additions ISO can't be mounted because of VERR_PDM_MEDIA_LOCKED
I am trying to run the command
sudo mount -t vboxsf SharedUbuntuWindows SharedUbuntuWindows
but I get the error unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf'
on my guest Ubuntu machine. I am following these ...
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Some doubts about Linux partition managment
I am not very experienced using Linux and I have the following situation that cause me some doubts.
I have wrote RaspBian (the RaspBerry linux distribution) on an SD card using this command on Ubuntu:...
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Would Changing fstab file entry to rw put data on Hard Drive at risk?
On my Linux Mint 16 Petra, I have encountered a problem where the USB's are inaccessible and the wireless is not getting turned on. Also Kdesu Konsole will not display. It says in the tray that it is ...
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Truecrypt Drive appears empty?
I have a 2TB storage drive which I have been using with full-volume encryption via Truecrypt. Truecrypt normally attempts to mount the drive at login, and I simply enter the pw, and the new volume ...
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Unable to automount SSHFS with OSXFUSE in fstab
The line in my /etc/fstab file is as follows:
sshfs#user@address:/media /Users/acc/Desktop/CODAAMOK fuse port=??,reconnect,allow_other,volname=SERVER 0 0
The error I'm receiving is as follows:...
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How to add a VMware fusion shared folder mount to /etc/fstab?
I'm mounting a VMware Fusion shared folder (vmhgfs) called foo to /var/www using the following command:
mount -t vmhgfs .host:/foo /var/www/
This works fine and creates the following /etc/mtab entry:...
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How to connect multiple Linux user on the same Linux server
I have a server called CALCSRV used to run some big scripts from multiple USERS. Each user has on that CALCSRV a personnal HOME. Each user has his own Linux Computer. Each user can connect to CALCSRV ...
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ntfs disk dying or..? rsync and mkdir failing, strange behavior
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root@host:~# uname -a
Linux host 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u1 i686 GNU/Linux
Mounts
root@host:~# mount | tail -2
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 type ntfs (rw,relatime,uid=1000,gid=...
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Error mounting in fstab Ubuntu
'm working on a bash class project which needs me to create 2 partitions in Ubuntu and make them be automatically mounted each time the systems boots with fstab.
I got the following file which ...
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device or resource busy, despite that it is not mounted and nobody is using it
> sudo rmdir workspace/log
rmdir: failed to remove `workspace/log': Device or resource busy
>sudo umount workspace/log
umount: workspace/log: not mounted
>fuser workspace/log
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Mysterious drive letter on Windows 8.1
Recently I've noted a "Q:" drive letter on my computer which I can't access, giving "Access denied".
MOUNTVOL gives the following.
\\?\Volume{830815a7-9c08-11e3-afef-b0ee45f5b28c}\
Q:\
I can ...
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