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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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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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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mounting a multi-drive USB enclosure in linux
I have a OWC Mercury Elite 2-bay USB drive enclosure (OWCMEPT934AL2C). I have it set on "individual" settings for the disks, so the 2 disks show up as two separate drives on my Mac (no raid, or ...
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Pysdm has disabled my ability to write to my storage partition
I have a dual boot setup with Windows 7 and Mint 13 Cinnamon. As well as their respective partitions, I also have a large one (NTFS) for storing all my music, videos, documents etc. I downloaded ...
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External hard drive won't mount on Mac
Anyone had problems mounting an external hard drive on a mac? It shows up (dimmed) in disk utility and all is fine according to first aid, but it just refuses to mount. It simply says "The disk My ...
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Windows beeps when I type the n in account or mount
This is a weird issue, I've got a Lenovo laptop running Windows 7 Enterprise. Whenever I type the word mount or account as I hit the n it beeps.
I've tried other similar words, sprout, tout etc but ...
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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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When and where does Wubi mount it's virtual disks?
My use of the wubi-new-virtual-disk command made Wubi start mounting this new virtual home disk over my /home folder. After the use of the script failed, I am left with Wubi constantly remounting an ...
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Ubuntu cannot see portable hdd with 2 partitions
I don't know why but Ubuntu v9.10 isn't showing up one of it's partitions in my portable HDD.
Only the 2nd partition is shown, and I can't find the 1st one.
What might be a solution to this?
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How to prevent clients from hanging while NFS server reboots
I'm using autofs to mount
/usr/local -fstype=nfs,rw,nosuid server.local.dom:/srv/nfs/usr/local
When I reboot the server, all clients get sluggish until the server is back up.
Is there any ...
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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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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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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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How are ties broken in AuFS with the top-down-parent file creation policy?
The AuFS manual says:
Policies for Creating
create=tdp | top−down−parent
Selects the highest writable branch where the parent dir exists. If
the parent dir does not exist on a writable branch, ...
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Can't mount image of NTFS partition created by ddrescue
I've used ddrescue successfully in the past but I'm having no luck this time. Usually, I make an image of the partition, run a fsck or whatever else on the image to fix file system errors, mount it ...
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Software RAID failed to mount after apt-get upgrade
I have a software RAID 10 (jfs) on an ubuntu 12.10 and require some assistance repairing the RAID after it failed to mount after a routine apt-get upgrade followed by a reboot.
/dev/md0:
Version : ...
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Speed up NFS Home Folder mount
I have a (virtual) cluster of Ubuntu servers where one master node offers an NFS folder that the slaved nodes mount. It serves as the home folder for an MPI user account.
The nodes all manage to ...
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Trouble Mounting (Intel) RAID in Debian
I am switching to Debian from Ubuntu and so far all is good, however, I can't get Debian to read one RIAD drives. I have three physical drives setup, using Intel Matrix Manager, for a RAID5 volume ...
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TrueCrypt Command Line: Dismount by Volume Name?
Considering the command: TrueCrypt.exe /q /e /v "dummy.tc"
1: Is there a way to dismount dummy.tc from the command line WITHOUT knowing its drive letter?
2: Is there a way to discover, after this ...
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Unwanted remount attempt of UBIFS rootfs during boot
I have an ARM system using buildroot-2011.05 - Linux 2.6.38.7. The board uses a NAND flash and to get around a problem with squashfs not liking bad blocks I changed the root file system to use ...
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Mounting a remote disk image which I made local via sshfs? Possible?
The core question first:
Is sshfs fit to provide low-level reads/writes/seeks as required when a file contains blockdevice-like contents?
Why? Well...
I am trying to locally mount a filesystem-image, ...
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Linux mount part of filesystem as template
Here's what I'd like to do: I have some directories that I need to have separate copies of, but these directories are 2+ GB so simply copying the directory several times seems inefficient. 90% of ...
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Is it possible to automatically mount a hot-swappable drive when it is turned on?
In my PC, I have a hot-swap drive. Usually I keep it off to save power. I only really use it when accessing from another PC on the network. Is it possible to configure /etc/fstab to mount this drive ...
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Can't find second partition on encrypted drive with two partitions
I have a drive with two partitions, a system partition (Windows 7) and a partition just for data. Both are encrypted with the same password.
I didn't had any problems, but yesterday my laptop gets ...
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Is there a way to make OpenVZ container with HDD and SSD space at the same time?
I would like to create containers which will have / on hdd and /home on ssd.
I guess it could be done by creating several partitions on ssd and mounting them with http://wiki.openvz.org/Bind_mounts ...
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How to mount SMB share from terminal using keychain?
I need to be able mount a SMB share from terminal, for MAC OS versions (10.7). Is there a way to use mount_smbfs with keychain so I don't get prompt the username/password or have to add it to the ...
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ubuntu 11.04 does not automount any usb drive / sd card / not even cd/dvd drive
In former version of Ubuntu I used I just had to plug in my usb drive, sd card, etc and it would show up and be mounted.
However, ever since I have 11.04 it won't do anything. I can mount it manually ...
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How do I unmount a tmpfs that is missing from /etc/mtab?
I have the following line in /etc/fstab:
none /home/hydra/tmp tmpfs user,noauto,size=1000M,uid=1001,gid=1001 0 0
I can do mount ~/tmp as user hydra and it gets mounted ok. The only problem is ...
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iPhoto backup on TimeCapsule using encrypted disk image
I have the following setup:
Pics on my MBP
Backups on my TimeCapsule
iPhoto library alias pointing the real library on encrypted disk image
Every time I open iPhoto, it mounts the encrypted disk ...
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How to access a casper-rw loop file in Windows?
I'm booting BackTrack off a USB harddrive and writing dumps to a persistent casper-rw file.
Is there a way I can mount the drive and read the data from Windows?
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Unable to mount cifs share
Debian squeeze.
# mount //192.168.2.6/Pub/ m -o guest
mount error(1): Operation not permitted
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
I test it on clear system (Debian squeeze ...
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Automatic partition mounting fails after improper shutdown of Mac OS X
Since I frequently use both Linux and Mac OS X, I am using a shared HFS+ partition as /home in Linux and /Users in OS X. From day one, OS X was smart enough to automatically mount this partition on ...
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Hide non VHD partitions
I have two partition on my HDD: C and D. On D: I have a vhd image (with windows 7 ultimate) that I use to boot from.
When I'm running the OS from VHD I can still access my physical parititons. Is it ...
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Truecrypt mounts an external harddrive volume on one system, but does not on another
I have an encrypted external hard drive which I'm able to mount on my desktop.
However my laptop is in trouble and before handing it over to the lab, I'd like to back it up. Alas, Truecrypt won't ...
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usb card reader not automounting in arch linux
I've tried various tutorials and followed the arch wiki but I still can't mount my SD card reader. On insertion, dmesg output:
[ 1579.490034] usb 3-3: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ...
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NFS drives are not always mounted
I have an NFS/NIS based file system. NFS and NIS servers are on different physical machines. When I log onto the machine with the NIS server (via ssh) sometimes my home directory automounts (as it ...
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Virtual Box share: Mark the file as changed on the guest when updating it on the host
OR How can I force apache to reread a file before serving it when it thinks it hasn't changed?
I'm running a web server (apache2) on the latest VirtualBox with the latest CentOS install.
I write ...
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NTFS Formatted Drive will not Mount. Labeled as Compaq Diagnostic
I'm trying to mount my Windows drive while running an Arch install on an external drive. However, when I try to mount the partition, it throws
Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
