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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What do we mean by mounting a filesystem?
I am new to filesystems and trying to understand mounting.
Is it something like adding a node in tree?
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Underscore being appended to mounted disk name after Ubuntu upgrade
I have Upgraded Ubuntu from version 9.10 to 10.04. Now when I mount any of my extra hard disks the drive name gets an underscore appended to it, as shown below. Which obviously messes up all my pahts. ...
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Is there a way to mount an external drive when it becomes available in WSL?
I am using Ubuntu with WSL with a zsh/bash shell. My host OS is Windows 10. I already figured out how to mount a Windows external drive:
sudo mkdir /mnt/d
sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d
I rarely plug ...
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How to mount an AWS volume on local host?
How do you go about mounting an AWS volume on a local host?
I am working on a remote AWS volume and would like to treat its files as if they were local so that I can use the programs on my local host ...
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How to mount XFS filesystem in ubuntu
I am trying to mount a hard drive with an XFS filesystem on it in Ubuntu. It was originally formatted in a netgear stora NAS device.
I am using a command in ubuntu like this,
sudo mount -t xfs /dev/...
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How do you Upgrade Ubuntu from an ISO Image By Mounting as Loopback (without burning)
I'm trying to upgrade 9.10 without burning the ISO image to a disk. What are the steps to get this to work?
I am using the Ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso image.
There are a few postings around on ...
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Mount a Second Partition of a USB Drive on Windows [duplicate]
I have a Pen-drive of 8GB, I have 2 partitions on it, one of 15MB and another of the remaining (7GB+).
I know that Windows only recognizes the first partition, is there any way to mount the second ...
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Two distinct mount points with one device
After being disappointed with Ubuntu's release update feature, I finally decided to have separate mount points for / and /home.
Towards this, I reformatted my HDD giving most of my drive to sda1(...
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Could I add an item in `/etc/fstab` to bind an old directory with a new one?
I have a problem with binding two directories. The problem comes that storage on hard disk is almost run out and I install another disk moving files in ~/Documents/ into one folder of the new disk. I ...
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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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External hard drive can't be mounted. OS X(10.10.4) running huge fsck_hfs process
It is sad to say that my external hard drive is currently facing issues.
The hard drive is listed when I run diskutil list (TOSHIBA_EXT):
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME ...
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Linux Force Default Mount CIFS Version to 3.0
I'm running Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 LTS 64-Bit with cifs-utils installed, as a VM, on a VMWare ESXi 6.5 hyper-visor.
I have a regular network share setup on Windows Server 2016.
The objective is to ...
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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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Mount an sshfs via macfuse at boot
I want to mount an sshfs folder at boot under Mac OSX: I'm using Macfusion right now, that is a GUI for MacFUSE, but I have to mount the folder manually.
How can I achieve that?
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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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How to umount / ? It's busy
I'm trying to use zerofree, which seems to be the answer for this: How to reduce VM size?
I have successfully umounted /dev/sda1, and zerofree worked fine, releasing ~37gb.
But I can't seem to ...
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Can't mount FAT32 drive under Ubuntu Linux
I have a 320GB USB drive with a single large FAT32 partition. The volume mounts perfectly fine on my Mac OS X 10.5.8 machine and Disk Utility on the mac reports no issues with the volume. I can read/...
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System went read-only suddenly
My web server (Linux, Debian Wheezy) has suddenly gone read-only, MySQL have crashed (but Apache didn't) - giving errors when pressing tab to complete file name as:
bash: cannot create temp file ...
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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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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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Mounting partitions without a password using Udisks2
I'm trying to mount some partitions on my hard drive by clicking them in thunar or running udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb6 & in a script, but I can't find a way for this not to come up with a ...
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How to mount Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data file?
$ file data
Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, UUID=9f923f9d-2cbd-4a49-8b5c-6a3cece42509 (extents) (64bit) (large files) (huge files)
$ mount -t ext4 data /mnt/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, ...
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du -x still examines mounted filesystems when using wildcards
If I try
du -s -h -x /*
it will try to examine all filesystems (real and pseudo) mounted directly under /, e.g. /dev, /proc, /sys, /run, and /home (/home is on an extra partition).
I think it comes ...
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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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How to automount an Android phone as USB mass storage?
When connecting my Android device to a PC, it prompts to mount it as USB mass
storage.
Is there a way to force it to auto-mount?
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mount a local directory to a remote ssh server
i want to mount a local directory to a remote ssh server. specifically my ~/.gnupg directory so i can use my local keyring everywhere, without storing it remotely.
so i think this solution:
keep a ...
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SD card failure, can't read superblock
What is wrong with my SD card and is it salvageable? At very least to get the current data off.
Information: I have an 8 GB Transcend Class 6 SDHC card that I got for my camera recently. It was ...
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How to rescan and remount drives on Ubuntu Hardy or Jaunty?
When I connect an USB drive to an Ununtu Hardy and Jaunty system, the system mounts the partitions found on the drive, and opens a Nautilus window for each mounted partitions. Within Nautilus, I am ...
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How to make a USB stick with iso9660 filesystem writeable again?
I used the Startup Disk Creator to make a bootable USB stick and now it can only be mounted read-only.
Output of sudo mount /media/user/Volume_Label/ -o remount,rw:
mount: cannot remount /dev/sdb1 ...
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Mount drive at /Volumes/NAME/ or similar in Cygwin
I'm using Cygwin on Windows 7. When I plug in an USB stick, the drive automatically gets mounted to /cygdrive/x . This is good and really easy to use.
My problem is that the drive letter changes ...
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How do I keep a server connected as a volume after sleep?
This would be in Mac OS X 10.6...
I know I can connect a server share as a volume and do so via a script so every time I boot up it gets mapped.
How can I make sure that same share is mapped after ...
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How do I write to a USB drive formatted as ext4 in Windows 11?
I have an SD card formatted as ext4 for use with SteamOS and EmuDeck. I want to add files to this SD card from my Windows 11 PC using a SD to USB adapter. Most of the the ext4 programs I've found ...
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Remount filesystem readonly
I want to remount /dev/sda2 [mounted on /var/www] as readonly
# mount -o remount,ro /var/www
mount: /var/www is busy
There are no open files on that filesystem
# fuser -v -m /var/www
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What factors affect whether an NTFS partition can be mounted by a user on Linux?
I have two Win8-made NTFS partitions on my system. Running Debian testing, Linux kernel 3.16, I can mount one of them as a regular user, but trying to mount the other one results in an error:
$ mount ...
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Arch Linux Install, Why is arch-chroot giving me an error?
I'm following the Arch Linux install instructions found here from a live cd, and I'm stuck issuing the following command:
# arch-chroot /mnt
mount: sys is already mounted or /mnt/sys busy
sys ...
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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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mounting share on Mojave says No such file or directory
I am trying to mount a share on Mojave 10.14.3 for Mac mini distribution point hosted on VM Windows Server 2008 R2 using the following command :
mount_smbfs -f 0755 -d 0755 smb://username:pwd@...
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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 mount a drive in a running FreeDOS?
I'm currently using FreeDOS to load USB stick content to a virtual drive. The connected HDD won't get a drive letter, as it is simply not formatted.
After that, I'm using Drive Snapshot to fill the ...
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mhddfs+osxfuse via fstab?
I'm trying to create a virtual drive pool using FUSE for OS X and mhddfs.
This command works for me:
sudo mhddfs /Volumes/D01,/Volumes/D12,/Volumes/D103,/Volumes/D110 /mnt/DrivePoolA -o allow_other,...
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Running ISO Without Burning to DVD
I'm thinking about trying VS 2010, and I plan to download it from here. However, it's in the form of an ISO file.
Is there anyway to run an ISO image file without burning it to DVD or using a DVD ...
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change default mount point of pcloud
In Linux, pCloud is an appimage. When we run the application, it creates a mount point in /tmp
/tmp/.mount_pcloudjUJB13$ ls
app AppRun pcloud.desktop pcloud.png usr
And create some files and ...
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Is there really no way in Linux to get creation time for files on cifs/smb share?
I am embarrassingly far along in a bash backup script and have missed something major. I know that ext3 filesystems don't track creation date, but copying files within ext3 updates the changed time as ...
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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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Start a systemd service after a device has been mounted
I'm writing a systemd's .service file for minidlnad (DLNA server) under CentOS 7. Since my media file collection is hosted on a RAID array, I need that array to be mounted BEFORE the minidlnad server ...
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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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"user" CIFS mounts not supported - fedora 30
I have a number of smb v1 shares. (I know that smbv1 is old and vulnerable but I can't change it)
Because of the old smb protocol, I cannot use nautilus to open then. Instead, I used fstab entries to ...
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The opposite of mount -o loop: can I read a block device as a regular file?
I'm trying to back up an LVM volume using Duplicity (note: not just the file contents of the volume, but the actual volume itself, byte-for-byte).
The best way I've so far found is to dd all the data ...
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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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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 ...