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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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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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can not copy big file to usb device
I mount usb device like this:
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
and then copy a big file which about 1Gb to the device:
sudo cp ~/big_file /media/usb
Ordinary, if I copy a big file to usb, ...
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What exactly happens when you “mount” a drive?
What underlying things happen when you mount a drive. Even when a drive isnt mounted, it is visible to the computer (such as sudo fdisk -l / diskutil -list). When a drive is mounted, is all that is ...
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Boot from USB and run batch file
I'm trying to boot from USB and run a batch file that will mount the computer's main hard drive and will copy a file from the root directory into a specified directory on the computer's hard drive.
I ...
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USB pen drive not getting assigned anything in /dev/
dmesg | tail -f:
[17597.228060] usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 11 using dwc_otg
[17597.330548] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=18a5, idProduct=0300
[17597.330580] usb 1-1.3: ...
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Mounting Fujitsu Tablet USB in Linux
I just bought a nice Fujitsu Tablet (M532) running Android ICS. But when i connect it to my Linux (Xubuntu 10.03) it is not recognized.
How can i transfer files from my computer to the tablet using ...
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Unable to mount 2nd 500 Gb USB hard drive
I have two Seagate 500 GB USB hard drives. I installed Debian 2.6.32-5-686 on one of them, and used dd to create a clone of the bootable drive. I have verified that I can boot and run from either ...
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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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Detect and mount external usb drive - Linux (Debian)
I have a 3TB USB 3.0 External HDD (Seagate) that I would like my Debian machine to pick up on boot so that I can use rsync to backup to it using cron.
If i unplug the drive and plug it back in then ...
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How to make your ubuntu filesystem read-only
I wonder whether there is a way to make my ubuntu read-only when I mount it on another linux system. Let me clear what I want. I have a usb stick on where my ubuntu is installed. However, the problem ...
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How can I get the mount path of a USB device on OSX?
I have a backup script that backs up some data to a USB device. The problem I have is that OSX sometimes changes the expected mount path. For example if some file is locked under the expected mount ...
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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 ...
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How do I write files to a USB without being root?
I have a 4GB USB stick which I partitioned using sudo cfdisk /dev/sdb and formatted using sudo mkfs /dev/sdb1. It's currently set to ID 83 with System Linux when I run sudo fdisk -l on my Debian ...
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How to mount cell phone by USB as SCSI block device?
A Motorola RIZR Z3 is connected by USB to my desktop machine running XUbuntu (or Ubuntu with xfce tacked on later) with the goal of viewing the phone's file system, copy images back and forth, etc.
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External hard drive only visible in System Profiler, doesn't mount, not visible in Disk Utility (Mac)
I have an external hard drive that does not mount to my Mac laptop, nor is it visible in Disk Utility. It is, however, visible in the System Profiler under the USB section. Any suggestions as to how I ...
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/dev name of already mounted device changes when a new USB device is inserted
I mount USB devices using the following command. I have no /etc/fstab entry, I mount these devices programmatically.
mount -o nodev LABEL=xyz mount-point
As soon as I attach another USB device, the ...
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Mounting a USB device to more than one machine at once?
Is it possible, using a Y or similar arrangement, to mount a USB device to more than one machine at once?
I realize a NAS or similar would be preferable, but if it were possible to mount en external ...
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USB Ubuntu Linux drive not detected on reboot, works with hard shutdown?
I'm somewhat new to the inner-workings of Linux so forgive me if this is a stupid problem.
I used the instructions on Ubuntu's website to build my LiveUSB drive from scratch. It seems to work ...
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Android USB volume name
When I turn on my (Nexus S) Android's USB storage, Mac OS X mounts it as "NO NAME". Among other mounted volumes, it's confusing. How can I give it a more relevant name?
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bash:terminal access to camera files? (mounted as “gphoto2://[usb:001,003]/DCIM/…” - can't find them!
I cannot find any of my camera image files (connected via USB), despite them being listed in Nautilus (Ubuntu 11.04), labeled gphoto2://[usb:001,003]/DCIM/104_0308/...
How can I cd to that location??
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Mount external USB drive in Debian Linux to a mount point based on the volume name
How do I configure my Debian installation to mount external USB drives to mount points based on the volume names of the drives? For instance, if I have a thumb drive with the volume name of ...
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How to access USB stick content from VMWare running Ubuntu 10.10?
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 via VMWare under Windows 7. I have followed the procedure to install the USB stick. It is now connected to the host.
However, I don't know how to access the content of the ...
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USB Mounts in Linux
I am running CentOS 5. I have connected a USB device (a Serial <-> USB connector). The device is "detected" (in /proc/bus/usb/devices ... the device is clearly there).
Also, if I do lsusb, I see ...
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USB sticks NEVER mount! What are some things I can try? (XP)
I'm using Windows XP, SP 2, which is not something I can change (work computer).
When I put in a USB stick, it never mounts. I get the two-note audio signal that means "USB activity" or whatever, but ...
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“mount” a serial port or USB or PS/2 or parallel port on a local machine over TCP/IP
let's assume I have two boxes, both running some (any) unix variant. I have root privileges on both boxes and they are networked together. I'm using A, the other is B.
I'd like to "mount" the ports ...
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Windows XP getting USB on off sounds repeatedly?
My laptop has gotten into a mode whereby it makes the USB mount and unmount sound repeatedly in a random fashion. This is the two tone ascending pitch for mount and descending pitch for unmount. The ...
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Forcing Windows to mount a drive with a specific drive letter
I have a USB key with sensitive data on it. It contains a TrueCrypt container, which I can mount to a specific drive letter through a TrueCrypt installation on the same device.
This is all great, ...
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How can I automatically set write permissions on mounting a usb drive in linux?
When I mount an external usb drive on linux (CentOs4), the permissions are by default set to read-only. Since there are multiple users on the computer who need to use the external drive, I want ...
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Linux doesn't detect external USB hard drive
In Ubuntu 10.04 all I had to do was turn on my external hard drive and it would automatically be detected and mounted. I just switched over to Ultimate Edition, which I think is Ubuntu 10.04 with a ...
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How to Find the Device Associated with a Mounted USB Drive in Linux
How do you find the device (e.g. /dev/*) for a mounted USB drive in Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)? I'm trying to format a Cruzer USB flash drive, and when I plug it in, the icon for the mounted filesystem ...
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Flash drive showing up with 0kb space available
I have a ocz Rally2 flash drive that has stopped working on one computer only (XP SP3). When I plug it in it shows up as E: but in disk management it is not present and if I select properties in ...
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pendrive automount not working
There are lots of ways to disable pendrive automount. I used one, but regreted, forgot which one and now need to reenable pendrive automount. It may have been a changed setting after pressing a button ...
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Remove Kernel Lock from Unmounted Mass Storage USB Device from the Command Line in Linux
I've searched high and low, and can't figure this one out. I have a older Olympus Camera (2001 or so). When I plug in the USB connection, I get the following log output:
$ dmesg | grep sd
...
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Is there a command line (or autohotkey) way of dismounting a USB drive?
I find dismounting a USB drive takes far too many mouse clicks for my liking. Is there are command line way of doing it (XP and Vista)?
Addition I have an eye condition that makes hand mouse ...
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Ubuntu stops auto-mounting flash drive
It seems that after being up for a few days, my Ubuntu system refuses to auto-mount hot-plugged USB disks (i.e. flash drives). The output from dmesg shows that the kernel recognizes the device ...
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Run script when a specific disk/memory card is mounted under OSX
How do I run a script when a drive is mounted under OSX?
My usecase is that I would like to automatically copy images from my USB memory/harddrive when it is inserted in my USB card reader, and when ...
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How to “Un-Eject” a USB Flash drive — Eject is easy (safely remove hardware), but what about Un-Eject or Reconnect?
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 ...
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Can not mount my USB disk— Ubuntu nor windows[dmesg including]
First, here is my dmesg | tail result right after I plugged the disk in:
$ dmesg | tail
[ 2578.697224] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access HP v100w PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 2578.698322] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached ...
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Flash drive doesn't mount on mac
I've got two different USB flash drives which are formatted MS-DOS(FAT-16). When I plug each into my MacBook Pro (running MacOS 10.6 - Snow Leopard), they don't mount. I can see them using Disk ...
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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 ...
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Mounting a USB device in Linux
I have a problem when trying to work with USB devices mounted with user 'root'. I explain, I mount a USB device as root under command line (console mode only), and I can work with that device with no ...
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ubuntu 9.10: What's the difference between “Unmount” and “Safely Remove Drive”?
I always though that unmounting would flush the cache (if any) and it was then safe to remove the drive, but I see that there are two different options (and actually, sometimes eject shows up too, for ...
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Directories' permisions for automounted USB hard drive in Ubuntu 9.10
I've noticed that directories' permissions for my automounted USB hard drive formatted in NTFS in Ubuntu 9.10 are 700. This is inconvenient for me. On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS it was 777 everywhere and it was ...
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“Please insert disk into removable drive” error with pen drives in Vista
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.
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Prevent a partition on a USB drive auto-mounting in Linux
On Linux (Gnome desktop) how do you prevent one of the partitions on an external USB drive auto-mounting when it attached to the machine?
I don't just want to prevent the Nautilus window from popping ...
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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. ...
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How can I make Windows not mount a drive when it is plugged in?
Due to my employer's IT policy, I'm not allowed to have any kind of MP3 playing software on my computer. I do, however, like to plug my iPod into my computer to keep the battery charged during working ...
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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?
