Questions tagged [fstab]
fstab is a file on in Unix / POSIX systems that stores settings about where devices system startup are mounted.
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A USB drive appears to be unmounting randomly. How do I troubleshoot this?
I have a USB drive holding files for a Plex server. The mounted folder is also shared on my home network using Samba.
Nothing has changed recently in either Samba or Plex's config.
Lately, the drive ...
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How does mount use fstab to mount directories?
A coworker asked me to help mount a shared Windows 10 folder in an Arch Linux guest using VirtualBox. The system had been set up by another coworker who was out to lunch.
The folder to be shared was ...
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SSHFS automount through FSTAB using Kerberos (GSSAPI)
Following from this Q&A, I have successfully installed and tested k5start to work with the Kerberos server of my university. My university uses a MIT Kerberos v5 server for authenticating tickets.
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mount ignores umask option in /etc/fstab for NTFS drive
I have a 1TB NTFS drive that I'm trying to mount using /etc/fstab at boot.
The entry in /etc/fstab looks like this:
UUID=0C6C7C9D6C7C82EE /mnt/ext1tb ntfs umask=707 0 2
The drive gets properly ...
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Slow hard disk write performance in Ubuntu 16.04
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS where the OS resides on a SSD. I also have three harddisks (3 TB, 3 TB, and 500 GB) and whenever I copy something from the SSD or another HDD to one of the three HDDs I only ...
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Content gets deleted from a mountpoint after reboot
I created a mount point in an existing setup with this command:
mount -o loop /comptel
and made an entry to /etc/fstab as well which looks like this:
#tmpfs /comptel tmpfs defaults,loop,...
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First boot fails when mounting partitions
I am building a system using buildroot. It uses systemd.
When I flash and start the system for the first time, systemd reports only one error:
[FAILED] Failed to start File System Check on Root ...
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Recover/reinstall UEFI partition after dd to /null
Has you can guess from the tittle I'm a moron. I got angry against an USB key and try to format it's partitions with a dd and /null , but instead I deleted my sda1 and sda2 partitions.
I realized ...
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Mount point permissions changing after `mount -a`
I am using my raspberry pi as a plex server and have having serious problems with one of the shared folder...
Related to my Synology NAS
All three are on my local network Synology NAS:
"music" is ...
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How to Force fsck for all other non-root partitions
We have the following disks and there mount point:
/dev/sdb /appTdb/sdc ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
/dev/sdc /appTdb/sdd ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
/dev/sdd /appTdb/sde ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0
/dev/...
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Broken Debian boot when trying to auto-mount an encrypted partition
I've made a quite thoroughly encrypted, balanced and well functioning filesystem with dm-crypt/LUKS/cryptsetup, but I made the mistake of leaving the home folder unencrypted when first installing ...
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EXT4 Journaling throughput
I am running a machine with a dedicated uninterrupted power supply, and i have no need for journaling data/metadata
i wanted to know if i get more throughput/performance by disabling journaling or by ...
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disabling filesystem journaling on EXT4
just wanted to know other than the obvious data integrity
does removing data journaling retain the filesystem as EXT4 ?
i read somewhere that without journaling the filesystem reverts to EXT2/3
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UUID fstab configuration in virtual machine ( VMware )
we have physical machines as HP or IBM blade machine and we set UUID in fstab on these physical machines
but in case we use VM ( virtual machine , )
is it necessary to defines UUID in fstab on ...
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attempting to remove discard mount option
Im trying to remove the discard option from /system (/dev/block/sde21)
when attempting this command
tune2fs -o^discard /dev/block/sde21
returns "Invalid mount option set: ^discard"
is there ...
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How can I auto-mount internal NTFS HDD to encrypted /home partition with fstab?
Summary: I would like to auto-mount an internal HDD in my user home directory using fstab, but am unable to do so.
I am setting up a new Thinkpad development machine with dual-boot Windows 10 and ...
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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 ...
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Automounting USB drives on a headless systemd linux box?
Approaches to auto-mounting devices in Linux keep changing, and googling returns quite a few solutions with various degrees of applicability for modern systemd-based boxes.
The following approaches ...
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SSHFS mounting with FSTAB during boot (Linux / Debian)
Is there anyone out there who can help me try to "translate" this SSHFS command to a proper fstab-line?
I already tried once and messed up with whole FSTAB and boot.
sshfs user@remoteserver.com:/...
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Create CIFS mount read/write for multiple users in group users
I can't seem to figure this one out. Running on CentOS 7, I'm trying to get a CIFS mount working using my FStab file.
//<ip>/downloads /mnt/downloads cifs user,gid=100,forcegid,rw,auto,username=...
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Mount a directory of another server on boot automaticaly
I have two Centos 7 servers and I mounted a directory from the 2nd server on the 1st one by SSHFS.
And it works fine.
but when I reboot the 1st server I need to mount the directory manually.
What ...
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Disk mounted as read-only, but defined as read-write in fstab
I'm having an issue with my computer; I recently installed Deepin Linux, based on Debian, and I'd like to use my internal ntfs formatted HDD on it.
I made an fstab entry to auto-mount it at startup, ...
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mount block device as /var/log during startup
I would like to use the ram block device to store the contents of /var/log folder. The ram-backed block device driver I used is the same one as in this link.
This one creates the device /dev/rb. I ...
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How may I mount an external drive in fstab and give owbership to multiple users?
I mount an external drive on my Raspberry-Pi (Debian/stretch) and I mount my external drive in the fstab like this:
UUID=1AD09862DC893951 /media/USBHDD1 ntfs-3g nofail,uid=pi,gid=pi,umask=007 0 0
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Differences between symlink to /tmp and tmpfs
I'm trying to make a read-only file-system (Raspbian). One common way is to place some directory (that are to be writable) in a tmpfs.
Example, I found some tutorials that suggest:
rm -rf /var/lib/...
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Dracut Emerg Shell: Mount LVM2 volume
How can I mount a (LUKS encrypted) LVM volume in the dracut emergency shell?
I made fatal changes to /etc/fstab that needs to be undone.
I did cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mmcblk0p2 crypthome and ...
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Swap partition on USB Stick
I created an additional swap partition on my USB stick and enabled it using mkswap. I'd like to have it available upon next boot by adding it to /etc/fstab.
But since it's an external USB stick that ...
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fstab cifs share not mounting on reboot
I have a cifs share connectin a windows folder to a debian machine, however I cannot get it to mount on boot using fstab. I have the credentials stored in a file with 600 permissions.
//192.168.1.72/...
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Ubuntu 16.04 server will not boot unless usb hdd removed
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 server with several external USB HDD drives. After adding the most recent drive, it will no longer boot into ubuntu, but only into a limited cli. If I remove the entry from ...
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debian machine mounting filesystem read-only
At work we have an old debian machine that I need to install security updates on, but the filesystem is mounted read-only. Unfortunately the guy who installed it has already retired and has not ...
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Automounting a virtualBox partition on RHEL - EmergencyMode at Boot
Question referenced:
My virtualbox fstab will not auto-mount on reboot?
I am trying to mount a vboxsf partition on RHEL7 at startup.
mount -t vboxsf share /home/user/Windows
works fine after i ...
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OSXFuse mounted directory ownership error with automount SSHFS
I am running on macOS Sierra and I am trying to configure auto-mount of external server's directory via SSHFS and osxfuse. However, every time the disk is being mounted, it is owned by root and normal ...
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SSHFS Mount using fstab is very slow
I am using fstab to create a sshfs mount. It is working but it takes 5-10 minutes until it's executed. Is it possible to do it right away ? What makes it so slow ?
It's not about the speed of sshfs ...
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fstab mounts some logical volume as /dev/dm-0 dm-1 instead as /dev/mapper/VG…
I run Linux snore 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1 (2016-12-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux, with the following fstab:
wr@snore:/etc$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use '...
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Why does cifs share show as used disk space on client
I have mounted a CIFS share on a Linux client machine.
IF I copy 100MB of data onto the server, the client shows a drop of 100MB in disk space.
Are the files on the server replicated to the client? ...
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Why is an /etc/fstab entry not automatically mounted?
I want to mount my QNAP windows shares as a share in Linux mint (18.1). I have created the following entry in /etc/fstab
# Mount share from samba server
//192.168.178.4/files /media/share/d cifs ...
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How do I get linux quotas to work?
I am trying to create a cap of 8gb per user on the /home dir.
here is my fstab line.
UUID=ebec6b82-1e9a-4b9a-9f36-eb3586f2f6a7 /home ext4 defaults,nofail,usrquota,grpquota 0 0
The /...
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Is relatime better than noatime on fstab for SSD?
A lot of tutorials says to use noatime on fstab when you have an SSD, but for me seems the relatime will works nicely.
Some quotes:
Add the "noatime" (or "relatime") mount option in /etc/fstab, to ...
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Linux can't mount a CIFS share with comma in path using /etc/fstab
I'm having problems mounting a CIFS network drive for use in an application I develop/maintain. The share path has a folder in it named , Employees as in Company/, Employees/Some data (the mapped ...
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Moving linux installation to another partition on same drive
I have followed these instructions to move my linux installation from /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda7.
The copy things went perfect.
I have edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg so that it boots from /dev/sda7 and it ...
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Re-mounting a live OS filesystem
I'm running Debian live on a USB flash storage device and I accidentally removed the drive.
Now I keep getting input/output errors:
bash: /usr/bin/xyz: Input/output error.
The drive ...
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How to clear /dev/dm-0
I noticed /dev/dm-0 is using almost all my HDD space:
$ df -h
[...]
/dev/dm-0 227G 207G 8,8G 96% /
[...]
I believe /dev/dm-0 is some kind of cache for mounted filesystem (It is the ...
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Permissions to folder are changed to ??????? after mount
I was trying to mount folders from one system to another using "mount" and the following configuration in /etc/fstab
<systemX>:/h/shared /h/shared nfs rw,sync,user,auto 0 0
<...
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Why would a linux system mount partitions from fstab with one kernel config, but not another?
I have a linux ROM image made by Buildroot with BusyBox init and eudev. The image has an /etc/fstab, which mounts /dev/mmcblk0p1 at /boot, and /dev/mmcblk0p2 at /mnt/var.rw (the upper filesystem for /...
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swapoff failed: Invalid argument
I recently found that every time I shutdown/reboot my machine, there will be an logged error which says swapoff failed: Invalid argument.
Jul 22 21:09:02 Frederick-Kubuntu systemd[1]: Stopping Update ...
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Reduce timeout value for “A start job is running for dev-disk-by” linux
My /etc/fstab intentionally has quite a few entries that point to (labelled) partitions and filesystems that may not be present at boot time (think: hotpluggable SATA backup disks).
These entries ...
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VirtualBox Guest Shared Folder Ignoring umask
I have a folder on my host system (Arch Linux) which is being shared with an Ubuntu VirtualBox guest. Instead of using automount, I am mounting the folder at boot using the following line in my guest'...
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setuid not working on a script [duplicate]
I'm working on a RHEL 6.7 machine. I'd like to make a script which is owned by root BUT could be launched by other users. However I still want the actions inside the script to be launched as root. So ...
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fstab drive auto-mounted to wrong (non-existent) dev
I ran into a curious problem today.
ls /media/Personal would yield ls: reading directory .: Input/output error.
According to mount, that folder was mounted from /dev/sdb1. Yet according to blkid, I ...
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Why mount a folder to a folder in fstab?
I'm on an Ubuntu server with fstab like this:
/dev/xvds /home/ubuntu/stuff auto defaults,nofail,nobootwait 0 2
/home/ubuntu/stuff /home/bob/things auto defaults,nofail,nobootwait,bind 0 2
I ...
