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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Can I make SYSLINUX load a root fs from an image file on an NTFS partition?
SYSLINUX allows me to boot from a FAT16 USB-stick by loading a kernel image and an initial ram-disk (initrd) image from there.
To get more space and a faster access, I can mount an NTFS partition ...
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NFS Mount not showing in Windows Explorer
Ok. After several hours of searching Google, I can not find exactly what I need.
After mounting an Ubuntu NFS share in Windows 7 via command line, it says it mounts successively. I know it was ...
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RW mounted usb drive regarded read-only by cp
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Can any of you help me with the following, I've got a micro sd card inserted via a usb stick into my Compaq 8510w laptop running the latest Arch Linux (x86_64) release. I have a udev rule ...
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How can I mount a single RAID 1 disk/partition as ext3?
I need to copy data from a single HD, which used to be part of a Linux RAID 1. I've googled around, but can't find any clue how to mount partitions from this single HD.
Background: The HD comes from ...
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Mount NFS on a remote host through a intermediate host
My scenario is:
hostA: /A_NFS/
hostB: hostA:/A_NFS/ on /B_NFS type nfs
hostC: hostB:/B_NFS/ on /C_NFS type nfs
hostA is reachable for hostB, but not reachable for hostC.
hostB is reachable for ...
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Everyone has read/write/execute permission, but no one can create files
I mounted my USB hard drive using the instructions here and, well:
$ sudo mount -t ntfs -o umask=000 -rw /dev/sda1 "/media/MyBook/"
$ ls -l /media
total 12
(a couple irrelevent directories here)
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Ubuntu - Automatically mount external drives to /media/LABEL on boot without a user logged in?
This question is similar, but kind of the opposite of what I want. I want external USB drives to be mounted automatically at boot, without anyone logged in, to locations like /media/<label>.
I ...
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Mount NFS as remote user
I have debian as an NFS client.
I would like to mount a remote NFS with a specific user permissions (to specify the remote user account)
How can I do that?
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setting system time at startup from ext4 filesystem
I have a pc with no battery backup and using ubuntu 12.04 with ext4 it will constantly ask me to handle the situation by saying that my superblocks last write is in the future.
So I wonder - can I ...
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USB Hard drive mounting as Read-Only
I've been having a problem with my Raspberry Pi: it keeps mounting my USB hard drive as read-only. I've been mounting it with sudo mount -t ntfs -o umask=000 /dev/sda1 "/media/My Book" but for some ...
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Not authorized to mount on persistent-USB Lucid installation
Background.
I use a persistent Ubuntu installation on a USB stick (16GB).
The purpose is to carry the USB flash instead of a netbook/laptop;
I usually find a laptop/pc handy close by to work with so ...
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what's the meaning of “?” in file/folder mode bits in CentOS 6.4?
Environment:
2 desktops.
A is a Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
B is a CentOS 6.4
A mounts B's folder via sshfs.
The output of 'mount' in A:
Lebian@zeus:/share on /mnt/share type fuse.sshfs ...
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ExFat partition not mounting - No main bitmap was found
Had 2tb hard drive for about a year.
Was plugged into windows pc, actively using Exfat partitions 'iTunes' and 'windows'.
The power cord for the hard drive was pulled out, reconnected in both the ...
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Can't mount Time Capsule via Wi-Fi
I have an Apple Time Capsule, and have been able to back up to it without a problem for the past few months. However, today I found I cannot connect to the Time Capsule from Finder, though it appears ...
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Indexing across a mount point in windows
I have a new windows 7 computer. The first thing I did was in stall a 2nd hard drive and mount it at C:/Users/me this seems to work just fine, except one issue.
Search does not find and file there, ...
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Windows 8 create share on mounted ISO at startup
I have recently found someone who posted a registry setting that auto mounts an ISO on Windows 8 Pro at start-up.
This is great because it allows me to mount my Office install disc which I can then ...
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Run scheduled task when drive is mounted
Is there any event log entry that is written a new drive (e.g. a RAM drive, a TrueCrypt drive) is mounted, which I could use to trigger a task on?
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How to backup apps + data using TitaniumBackup directly to SMB share
I've been searching for answer to this question for quite some time now and finally decided I should as a question here.
So I've managed to find a kernel module (cifs.ko) for my kernel build on ...
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Searching for “Flash drive mounting” software
I am working on Windows 7 Ultimate.
I have an ISO file and need write access to it. On virtual daemon I only can simulate CD-ROM drives without write access. Is there any mounting software that can ...
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How to mount Ext3 drive in Cygwin?
I want to mount and fully operate an Ext3-formatted USB drive in Cygwin under Windows XP. How can I do this?
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How do I mount a (possibly encrypted) Mac-formatted Iomega zip disk under Debian Linux?
I have a machine with an internal Iomega Zip-250 drive, running Debian stable (Lenny). I have been using it to back up a pile of Zip-100 disks from back when they were popular. Once I learned to ...
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Mountpoint of Usb-device where Arch Live Distro sits
I was wondering about where the mountpoint of the usb device is where the arch live distro lies on. I am asking this because I am not able to mount the usb device where the arch live distro lies on to ...
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TrueCrypt system encrypted drive fails to load Windows
I have full system encryption on my Win 7 Pro/64 hdd. I boot the machine and enter the TrueCrypt password, and Windows starts to load but fails with the error message "The boot selection failed ...
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My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only?
My vbox shared mount will not auto mount and is only ready only?
I am using scientific linux host and centOS guest and I am trying to share a folder I have in both accounts but the folder is only ...
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Cannot mount vmfs version 5 on linux
I know I can mount a vmfs version 3 on linux using vmfs-tools.
First I get the iscsi connection using open-iscsi
I then check in my partition tool to which virtual drive the iscsi connection has ...
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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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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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Change default mount group of USB drive in ubuntu
I have a shared, family computer which has USB drives attached to it. Multiple users can be logged in, that sort of thing. All of the users have been added to "Access external storage devices ...
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Automatically mount and repeatedly check for Drobo mount
Is there a way I can repeatedly check for a Drobo mount and if it's not there perform a mount? I have a Drobo which I use from a few Macs and throughout the day at different points mounts seem to kick ...
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Detect mounting of a virtual (TrueCrypt) volume in windows PowerShell script
I am using the following powershell script to detect when a particular volume is mounted so I can run a script that will move files from my machine to the device (I don't know much about powershell ...
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How to automatically mount a TrueCrypt volume on OSX after login with password/keyfile
I would like to do the following:
I. After logging into my account I would like OSX to automatically mount 2 of my volumes (located on same external HDD connected via FW800) using a password or ...
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Automount encrypted home directory
When I made a fresh install I decided to use encrypted home directory. After sometime/updates (can't remember what was the cause) directory won't mount anymore. I want to automate this process once ...
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How to force a Huawei E3276 LTE modem to only mount as a modem?
I have a Huawei E3276 LTE USB-modem and I need to force this modem to only mount as a modem when connected to the computer. Per default, the modem also mounts as a CD-drive and a USB mass storage ...
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Install .deb packages into mounted fs
I have a ext2 partition on CF card to use in external device. I've inserted this card into my PC and mount it as /mnt/linux. I've installed (extracted) a linux distribution to this partition.
And I ...
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Mount shared drive on Mac
I have currently added a shared drive to my "load at login" window for my user.
Now this does automatically mount the drive when logging in however it also immediately loads up a finder window with ...
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Mount External HFS+ to Windows 8
I recently got a Win8 Laptop to replace my broken MacBook. I have an external enclosure for my macbook harddrive and would like to mount it as a file system on my windows laptop to move files. I ...
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control mount order of partitions on a USB disk in linux
I have a backup external hard drive in a USB box that is identical to my laptop's boot drive so that I can swap it in if my boot drive fails. When it's connected to the system for normal use (e.g., ...
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Can I make mount.cifs reconnect against the same DNS name?
I run Linux in a VM on a Windows host. When I'm in the office, my Windows host machine self registers it's DNS name and it's mymachine.myco.com. When I'm at home, it self registers as ...
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How to mount an NTFS filesystem, allowing all users full access?
How could I mount an NTFS filesystem in a way that would allow all users full access to it? If I use sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/drive, then only the root user can use it. It won't let me ...
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re-mount two old disk from raid0 setup to recover data [duplicate]
I had setup two 500gb disk in RAID0 on my server, but recently suffered a hard disk failure (saw a S.M.A.R.T error on the HDD at boot). My host has put 2 new disk in RAID-0 again (re-installed the OS) ...
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vertical green stripes on the screen
I had ubuntu installed on my laptop (Sony vaio vgn-fz470e) was working with it, suddenly it restarted and then screen showed colorful squares at first and vertical green stripes remained on the ...
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How to mount a software RAID0 array in CentOS without formatting
Recently my software RAID0 array had a SMART error and so I had to get 2 new drives to create another RAID0 to re-install CentOS 6.
The 2 previous drives were saved; and re-inserted. But I don't know ...
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How to mount sparseimage permanently at specific mount point?
I have a read/write image that needs to be mounted at a specific location, how can I have it mounted on bootup at that location? Not necessarily for my user but maybe the whole system? My mount point ...
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Mount Windows share on Linux boot
I'm running VirtualBox in Windows. I have Ubuntu Linux 10.04 installed as a VM.
Whenever I log in I have to run to following command to mount my shared Windows web dev folder:
sudo mount.vboxsf ...
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USB flash drive not mounting on Mac and Windows but works on Crunchbang
I've been using a PNY 16GB USB stick for some time now, no problems. Recently there have been messages when I'm using on windows 8 to "repair the drive," but I always skipped it. Recently I clicked ...
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Mount VM's hard disk on Windows 7 machine?
I have a VM setup on VMWare's Esx server, which I access via normal Putty or ssh (over normal LAN network, using VPN)
Is there a way to mount my VM's hard-disk directly on my Win 7 machine, so that I ...
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Can MAC OS X's TrueCrypt mount the encrypted file as a NON-Removable Drive?
I have used TrueCrypt in Windows which mounts my encrypted file as a regular drive in Windows Explorer. But when I mount the same encrypted file through Mac OS, it is mounted as a removable drive. I ...
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Making a windows share mount on unix recover from lost connections
i would like to simply mount a shared windows drive on Linux but make it resilient to network connection failures or some other kind of error that could happen with the connection to the windows ...
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How to boot into a root filesystem stored as partition image file on a bootable DVD?
I have created a bootable CD from a USB stick (built from Ubuntu core 12.04 according to this example) by
copying the files of the USB stick's boot partition (containing vmlinuz and initrd.img) into ...
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Mount hibernated windows paritition
I am trying to mount my windows partition at boot. It works fine when windows in shutdown, but when windows is hibernated, it can't be mounted as rw and I am sent to the root shell at boot. I tried to ...
