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.
206
questions
199
votes
5
answers
483k
views
How to mount a HFS partition in Ubuntu as Read/Write?
I plugged in my external harddrive (which was formatted on my Mac into HFS+ journaled) to my Ubuntu desktop 9.04 64bit. I am not able to get the drive to mount with write capability, how do I do that?...
124
votes
6
answers
228k
views
Windows 10 Ubuntu Bash Shell: How Do I Mount Other Windows Drives?
I'm using Windows 10's Ubuntu Bash shell. It maps the C drive fine as /mnt/c.
I have other local physical hard drives, mounted in Windows as E: and F:
How do I tell Bash to mount these drives too (...
179
votes
10
answers
340k
views
Can Windows tell me what is using my USB drive?
Being the good citizen I am, I left-click on the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in my taskbar, and select my USB drive to dismount.
Then I get the message:
Windows can't stop your Generic volume ...
74
votes
11
answers
99k
views
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 ...
63
votes
8
answers
133k
views
How can I mount a partition from dd-created image of a block device (e.g. HDD) under Linux?
I have an image of the entire disk created using dd. The disk structure follows:
kent@cow:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
...
62
votes
1
answer
64k
views
How to mount an NTFS partition read-only in Windows?
I feel like this is a really simple and fundamental function that Windows should have, but so far Google has been telling me it isn't possible. How can I mount an NTFS partition read-only in Windows?
44
votes
3
answers
183k
views
How to mount read-write an ext4 partition on Windows? [duplicate]
I want to use ext4 on my external HDD, but it must be cross-platform. (At least Linux, Win7 & WinXP).
Unfortunately, I haven't found any proper driver allowing Windows to WRITE to ext4. I've ...
3
votes
1
answer
10k
views
Can't mount old IDE hdd using an USB adapter
I have an old IDE hard drive that has some data I must recover, so I bought an usb adapter to plug it to my new pc and copy everything.
But Windows installed the drivers when I plugged it in, but ...
31
votes
2
answers
71k
views
How can I mount an ISO via PowerShell/programmatically?
How can I mount and dismount ISO images from PowerShell in Windows 8 without 3rd party programs?
This question's original revision got me wondering if it's possible to mount an ISO via PowerShell in ...
6
votes
1
answer
8k
views
How to mount two separate folder locations to one?
I am trying to connect two folders from two different locations to one folder from which radio software plays music.
This is what I have done so far:
In /etc/fstab I have put the following two lines:...
18
votes
4
answers
11k
views
Is there a way to access files from one WSL 2 distro/image in another one?
I have several Unbuntu WSL 2 "installations" on my Windows 10 system and I'd like to be able to run tools like rsync and diff between them. Is it possible to mount/find where the files for ...
48
votes
4
answers
112k
views
How to mount and unmount hard drives under Windows (the unix way)
On my work computer I have two USB hard drives that I use rarely. They have a power save mode that sends them into sleep after a couple of minutes of them being idle.
Whenever I open a context menu ...
41
votes
7
answers
159k
views
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 ...
30
votes
2
answers
50k
views
Mounting HFS+ partition on Arch Linux
I'm having some problems with mounting an hfs+ partition on Arch Linux.
When I run sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda2 /mnt/mac I get this error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/...
24
votes
2
answers
24k
views
How to "Un-Eject" a USB Flash drive -- Eject is easy (safely remove hardware), but what about Un-Eject or Reconnect? [duplicate]
There are times after I eject a USB Flash drive, I want to copy some more files over to the USB Flash drive. In this case, do I always need to unplug the drive and plug it back in? Is there a way to ...
20
votes
1
answer
62k
views
What does NOEXEC flag mean when mounting directories on RHEL?
I am trying to understand the NOEXEC flag when mounting.
I am having an execution issue within the /tmp directory on someone elses machine that I cannot access atm where the /tmp directory is mounted ...
3
votes
3
answers
16k
views
How to mount ext4 fs with block size of 65536?
I am benchmarking EXT4 performance on Compact Flash media.
I have created an ext4 fs with block size of 65536. However I cannot
mount it on ubuntu-10.10-netbook-i386 (it is already mounting ext4 fs ...
60
votes
7
answers
395k
views
How to mount an LVM volume?
I'm trying to mount an LVM2 volume in Linux, but all the instructions I see online say to mount the Volume Group, such as:
mkdir -p /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00
but I don't know how to figure out the ...
59
votes
2
answers
54k
views
What does Linux do with existing files in a mount point?
If I attempt to mount a folder that already has files in it, does linux give me an error message or go ahead and show both the mounted filesystem and the files that were already in the folder?
46
votes
3
answers
93k
views
Mac Lion: fstab is deprecated. so what replaces it to prevent a partition from mounting?
If fstab is deprecated in Lion (and before, I think?) how does one, properly, prevent a partition from mounting on system boot?
This is loosely related to this question which as of this post has no ...
41
votes
4
answers
33k
views
How to mount remote SSHFS via intermediate machine? Tunneling?
I would like to mount a remote file system (A) using SSHFS, but sometimes I have IP address, access from which is not allowed. So my plan is to access it via another machine (B) in that network. Do I ...
38
votes
3
answers
65k
views
Can I expand the size of a file based disk image?
I created an empty disk image using dd, then I used mkfs to make it a real filesystem image. I am mounting and using it fine. What I need is to be able to expand or shrink this file based disk image ...
36
votes
4
answers
73k
views
How do I mount ext2/ext3 partitions in Mac OS X Snow Leopard?
Is there anything that will natively allow read/write on an ext2/3 partition within Snowie?
Just don't want to get a Linux box to mount, and then access via samba. Although I could perhaps through ...
32
votes
5
answers
64k
views
How can I mount a disk image?
I have a disk image myimage.disk which contains the partition table and a primary partition (i.e. a FAT32 filesystem). Think that as a USB pen image.
I want to mount the primary partition to a local ...
27
votes
3
answers
20k
views
Can't execute a script on a mounted external drive
The /mnt/ext is mounted to an ext2 filesystem, an external hard drive. For some reason I can't run scripts from there. Please see the session below.
luntain@plato /mnt/ext $ echo "echo success" > ...
27
votes
10
answers
40k
views
Mount second drive as c:/Users in Windows 7
So about a month ago I set up a Windows 7 Professional machine where I was able to mount the secondary hard drive to the path C:\Users. This put all of the userspace files on the second hard drive ...
20
votes
1
answer
108k
views
Mounting SSH/SFTP shares on Windows 7 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SFTP as a folder on Vista
I'm fairly unfamiliar with Windows, especially Windows 7, but using it for a school project; essentially I have a directory accessible through SSH ...
15
votes
5
answers
87k
views
Can't change permission/ownership/group of external hard drive on Ubuntu
I have an external hard drive connected to my Linux box. I wanted to setup a web server to access files on it, but the permission on all files and directories on the drive are rwx for the owner which ...
2
votes
1
answer
7k
views
Mount an ISO from the Command Line and Get its Drive Letter in Windows 8
I am making a batch script which mounts an ISO file and installs an app (VS 2012) from the mounted location like this:
K:\Softwares\VS12.iso
%DRIVE_LETTER%:\vs_ultimate.exe /passive /norestart
But ...
2
votes
1
answer
4k
views
"Please insert disk into removable drive" error with pen drives in Vista [duplicate]
Whenever I insert a pen drive, I am not able to open it.
Vista shows me this error:
Please insert disk into removable drive
I have tried changing the drive letter, but it didn't help.
1
vote
1
answer
9k
views
Cannot mount Windows 8 partition disk on Ubuntu 12.10
I cannot mount Windows 8 partition disk on Ubuntu 12.10.
My Windows 8 is installed on "C" partition, and I have another "D" partition.
I can easily mount "D" partition, see files and make changes on ...
0
votes
1
answer
2k
views
How to mount FUSE (e.g. unionfs) so that all users will have access to it?
I am trying to use unionfs to create multiple (100+) instances of a few development tools for our development server. Here is the script I am using:
PROJECT=$1
DEPLOYMENT=$2
TOOL=$3
DIR_TOOL="/...
0
votes
1
answer
3k
views
Can't change owner of folders/files on thumb drive
I have a drive being mounted (either manually or automatically using usbmount) and I can't change the owner or modify the permissions on the mounted drive or folders/files within in order for Mono to ...
93
votes
3
answers
119k
views
How do you mount a directory as a drive in Windows 7?
I have a directory on another drive that I want to show as a new virtual drive. How can I do that?
70
votes
13
answers
279k
views
How to find the /dev name of my USB device
I am running a Ubuntu 11 guest on a Windows XP host with VMware. I want to format an SD card in Ubuntu, but I can't figure out which /dev/xxx device the SD card is.
I plug the card into the built-in ...
45
votes
7
answers
29k
views
how to mount local directory to remote like sshfs?
I know sshfs is used to mount remote directory to local, but I need to mount local directory to remote fs.
I would like to mount a local folder such as:
/home/username/project_directory
onto a ...
41
votes
3
answers
207k
views
mount gives unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf'
I'm getting an error message mount: unknown filesystem type 'vboxsf' when trying to mount a shared folder on my guest Ubuntu machine.
I have a Windows 7 machine running 4.1.22V Oracle VM VirtualBox. ...
28
votes
2
answers
33k
views
Tool to mount a zip/rar/* archive as a Win drive and be able to read/write as a normal device? [closed]
I'm looking for some tool that, given a zip/rar/tar/* archive file, mounts it as a new Windows drive. Some tools are WinMount or WinArchive, but I need one that allows me to write/create/delete files ...
28
votes
7
answers
11k
views
Safely remove external USB drive fails due to $extend
When connecting an external USB 3.0 hard drive to my USB 3.0 ports I can never safely remove it.
Somehow windows always keeps the journal files open:
"Always" as in this time I only connected the ...
17
votes
5
answers
50k
views
Cannot mount NTFS partitions because of Windows 10?
I have a multi-boot computer, one of the partitions is taken by Windows 10 technical preview and another one is also ntfs.
Booting in an Ubuntu-eOS system I get this errors when trying to mount these ...
16
votes
4
answers
14k
views
Usable, free ISO file editor that runs on Windows? [closed]
I need a free (libre) utility for Windows that allows a person to edit an ISO file.
The goal is to be able to:
Mount the ISO file with the ISO filesystem being readable and writeable.
Make changes ...
15
votes
4
answers
21k
views
My virtualbox fstab will not auto-mount on reboot?
I am able to mount my drive manually like this (ubuntu):
sudo mount -t vboxsf C_DRIVE /mnt/saga_c
But when I try and add it to my fstab it does not mount when I restart the machine. Is there ...
14
votes
5
answers
36k
views
When running `rm -rf`, is it possible to exclude certain subdirectories?
I routinely use bind mounts to aid in making space available in multiple locations without having to have multiple logical volumes / physical partitions / LUNs, etc.
For example, I may have a 200G LV ...
13
votes
3
answers
11k
views
Ubuntu - How to automount an external drive at a preconfigured mount point?
Normally, when I attach an external USB drive to my Ubuntu system, the filesystem on it are automounted to /media/label. However, I'd like the filesystem to be mounted at a mount point of my choosing. ...
12
votes
4
answers
22k
views
Disable linux read and write file cache on partition
How do i disable the linux file cache on a xfs partition (both read an write).
We have a xfs partition over a hardware RAID that stores our RAW HD Video.
Most of the shoots are 50-300gb each so the ...
7
votes
3
answers
19k
views
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 ...
6
votes
1
answer
9k
views
Mount Synology NFSv4 export with id mapping
I have a Synology DiskStation (DSM 6.0.2) that exports shared directories via NFSv4. I specified a NFSv4 domain ITET-PHO.
On another Linux machine (Debian Wheezy), I want to mount this export using ...
5
votes
5
answers
3k
views
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, ...
4
votes
2
answers
3k
views
Cannot mount USB after unsafe eject
I have a 16GB usb flash drive and I made it bootable to install Linux Mint.
But for some reason, I couldn't install and did an unsafe eject.
Now, I cannot mount the drive, neither on Windows nor ...
4
votes
1
answer
11k
views
Using noexec option in fstab
This link explains the benefits of using noexec option when using mount. However it lists one limitation - if I have a Perl/Python/shell script or a file that starts with #! and will try to execute it ...