Questions about mounting filesystems automatically, either at boot time or when plugging in
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SD card not automatically mounted
This is happening on both Ubuntu 12.04 and Lubuntu 12.04 (the latter after I got frustrated to the point of formatting and reinstalling).
I have an Asus Eee with a built in SD card slot. I used to ...
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Howto auto mount NTFS part/disks in Ubuntu(13.04) with a gui tool [duplicate]
The header says it all.
How to auto mount NTFS partitions/disks in Ubuntu 13.04 with a GUI tool?!
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How do I auto mount my partition?
I've a partition on /dev/sda2 of 279 GB Ext4 filesystem, but I'm not able to auto mount it on login.
I've added the partition entry /dev/sda /home ext4 defaults 0 0 in /etc/fstabt still it ...
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Automount of external hard disk
I have an Intenso 6002560 1TB Memory Station - an external hard disk. This hard disk gets connected via Y-USB cable. When I connect both USB-ends to my Notebook, it gets recognized by my Ubuntu ...
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ubuntu10.04 can't mount USB Automatically,and can't access LAN via smb
my ubuntu10.04 can't mount USB Automatically,I have to mount manually,and can't access LAN via smb command,I have tested is OK via ping
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Cannot auto mount NAS running samba on 12.04
I have tried to auto mount my NAS running samba with the following modifications to my fstab file without any luck:
//10.0.1.4/NAS /home/wayne/NAS smbfs rw,username=,password=,uid=1000 0 0
The ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 wont mount an External harddrive
I have 2 external 1TB harddrives, both of which normally get mounted on startup. For the past couple of days, one of these drives has not been mounted. I have tried unplugged and plugging the ...
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Prevent a specific USB device from auto-mounting
I want to stop a USB device from automounting in Ubuntu 13.04. For example, when I connect my iPhone 5 to my desktop I am consistently prompted for what I want to do (whether or not I want to erase ...
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Internal drive sdc sometimes mounts, but sometimes fails to mount and is assigned sda
I am using Ubuntu 13.04 (Kubuntu if it matters) and I have it set up to mount hard drives automatically on start-up (In System Settings under "Removable devices", I have the setting "Enable automatic ...
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Android Media sync LG Optimus L7 (P705) with ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I can't connect my Android LG Optimus L7 (P705) with Ubuntu via media sync (MTP), just to see or transfer file / media inside my internal / external memory from computer to handphone vice versa, ...
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Nautilus does not mount usb storage automatically
devices are recognized and can be mounted using mount command (see Ubuntu 12.04 stopped suddenly to recognize all usb storage.) but are not automatically mounted.
using Ubuntu 12.04 on dell Lattitude ...
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How do I prevent automatic mounting of my android phone in 13.04?
gvfs is mounting my phone automatically when I plug it in, I don't want this for various reasons.
How do I disable automatic mounting for this specific device, but continue allowing other USB devices ...
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Automount with async option
I have a 1 TB Western Digital External Harddisk. The read/write speed was very low, I read on askubuntu that using the async mount option helps. Then I started using it as follows:
mount -o async,rw ...
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Automount NTFS drives before startup applications
Before I start, I just what to point out that I know how to automount an NTFS drive.
My problem is that my dropbox folder is on one of the ntfs drivers that I automounted... When ubuntu starts up, it ...
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Options in mtab differs from fstab
Whence options "noexec,nosuid" and other came?
~~~~:/media/Data$ grep home /etc/fstab /etc/mtab
/etc/fstab:/dev/sdb9 /home ext4 noatime,nodiratime,commit=15 ...
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An error occurred while mounting static
So you've edited /etc/fstab, rebooted and get some error message about mounting static. What's static? Turns out there's an easy answer to this.
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USB emulated CDROM drive is not automounting (repurposed U3 smart USB stick)
I've used u3-tool to load a ISO onto my 2MB USB stick. If I'm running 13.04 or 12.04 and I place the flash drive in my PC, the remaining ~923MB fat32 partition auto-mounts, but not the emulated ...
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How to get rid of devices in the left panel of Nautilus?
I would like to rid of not mounted ntfs partition from Nautilus' right panel ( I just want 352 GB Filesystem - d drive to be there.
First of all 352 GB Filesystem is in fact d so I do not know why ...
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Automount partitions in Ubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]
I installed fresh copy of ubuntu 13.04 and I want to automount my partitions. Previously I was using pysdm and now its not available. Anyways to accomplish this?
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cannot mount my external hard drive anymore
I do not what happened, but i can not anymore automount my hard drive. It contains a vital data for me and have no whish losing it. Any help is very much appreciated
i was trying to copy somes files ...
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How do i mount a shared drive?
I am trying to mount my media drive on my ubuntu server on my pi over the network. I need some help editing /etc/fstab for syntax on this mount. I am able to mount the drive manually with:
sudo ...
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There is nothing in my fstab.d file
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed , equal hard drive space 250 GB each.
Now no matter what I do I cannot get a cd or dvd to open.
By the way I am recently new to Linux systems.
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How to mount a shared folder of a windows system in Ubuntu Permanently?
I need to mount a shared folder of a windows system in ubuntu with read / write permission permanently. How do i do that?
Note:
The windows system is connected to domain.
Say the ubuntu system has ...
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Don't automatically open the folder of mounted devices
I usually charge my phone through a USB connection. Due to Ubuntu 13.04 detecting and mounting it, Nautlius automatically opens the mounted folder. Can I stop Nautlius from automatically opening the ...
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initctl status autofs is stuck on stop/starting
We have an issue with Upstart not restarting the autofs job when the automount process dies, and the Upstart job status gets stuck in the "stop/starting" state. The process is not automatically ...
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Can't automount two partitions at login
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.
I wanted two of my NTFS partitions automounted on startup, so I followed the instructions on Ubuntu documentation ...
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During boot: An error has occured while mounting(13.04)
So I get this message during boot saying that it failed to mount the /home/chris/Videos/Anime drive. It's the same kind of drive as my /home and /home/backup drives, formatted the same, etc... but ...
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mount: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
For some reason, I can mount my NAS using cifs as follows:
sudo mount -t cifs //10.0.0.210/data -o username=xxxxxxxxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxxxxx,rw,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755 ...
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Sometimes Windows 7 NAS cannot be mounted
I can successfully connect my Xubuntu PC (cable-connected to office network) to a Windows NAS using this line in /etc/fstab:
//Hall/Share /media/HallShare cifs ...
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Sharing folders between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 in dual boot
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 as a dual boot in a preexisting Windows 7 PC. Both OS's are on an SSD and the Windows files are on a separate internal HDD ("Storage" in W7 : sda + sda1 in Ubuntu - I ...
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How to disable a specific mount, when using automount over LDAP
I am using Ubuntu 11.04, on which NFS paths are automounted using AutoFS/LDAP. For example, /path1 and /path2 are auto mounted, but I want to disable automount for /path1, because I want to use a ...
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External HDD automatically get back after safe remove
This is weird!
I use udisks --detach /dev/sdb for safely remove my hard disk.
after 2 sec hard drive automatically mounted and nautilus window pops up.
This is output of udevadm monitor --udev.
UDEV ...
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my LaCie 500 Gb not mounted on 11.10
My external USB drive was recognized with 10.x versions of Ubuntu but since 11.x I am getting stuck, I had tried everything I read in forums but still the same error:
4956.401052] usb 2-1.4: new ...
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External HD, and USB stick suddenly not mounting
They used to automatically mount. but now they don't.
I checked the org....media automounting is enabled.
Any suggestion will be appriciated, Thanks in advance.
Running Ubuntu 12.10 with basicly ...
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Using autofs with sshfs: “no such file or directory” error
After following instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs, I am able to mount directory via sshfs as root, however, autofs doesn't work for me.
My auto.master contains
/media/sshfs ...
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got /dev/sda1 will be checked for errors at next reboot in ubuntu 12.10 server virtual machine [duplicate]
Problem
I have this message called /dev/sda1/ will be checked for errors at next reboot when I booted up my VM running on ubuntu 12.10 server edition.
My host OS is mac os x lion.
What I have tried
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How can I get rid of the motd message “*** /dev/sdb1 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***”? [duplicate]
My motd persistently has:
*** /dev/sdb1 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
The problem is that I don't have /dev/sdb1 on my system.
I only have /dev/sdb2 (mouted as /) and /dev/sda1 ...
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deja-dup backups through a virtualbox Ubuntu 12.04 with Windows 7 host?
I would like to use a tool like deja-dup or similar to have backups of certain directories in a virtualbox Ubuntu 12.04 machine that runs on a Windows 7 host laptop. I am plugging and unplugging this ...
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USB pendrive not automounting at desired mountpoint
I have a 8 GB pen-drive. When I initially plugged it in it was automatically mounted at /media/device name and I could use it just fine.
However something changed. Now it gets automatically mounted ...
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automatically mount cifs share on boot [duplicate]
I have a script (connect.sh) to mount a windows share, which works when executed manually but I need it to execute by itself as Ubuntu boots (before login)
the script contains:
#! /bin/bash
sudo ...
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Autofs+NFS unmount
I have configured NFS client to mount user's home using autofs automounter. /home of server is shared using nfsv3. I am using NIS (ypserve) for authentication. NIS and NFS both are configured on the ...
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USB Flash Drive Automounting
I'm trying to prevent my USB flashdrive from getting automounted upon insertion.
I've already set automount to false under org.gnome.desktop.media-handling, yet the flash drive continues to get ...
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Ubuntu Nexus 7 as USB device does not work
I connected USB cable from Nexus 7 running Ubuntu to my Ubuntu laptop but there is no new USB device found when I run lsusb. Is this function supported?
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Ubuntu will not automount external hard drive
I can't get my external hard drive to mount automatically. I can only mount it via the terminal. And even then, I also have to unmount via the terminal else I receive the warning in the attached ...
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How to configure the default automount location?
I recently upgraded from Mint 12 to Ubuntu 12.10 + Cinnamon. I have an external usb drive that when I plug it in, automatically mounts to /media/[username]/Backup/. Thing is, under Mint, it didn't ...
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CLI mounting vs. GUI mounting
On Ubuntu 12.10, when I want to mount a hard drive, I can just click on the unmounted drive and everything works fine (by mounting to /media/username/partitionlabel).
Basically, I would like to do ...
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Cannot mount LUKS encrypted USB on boot after 12.10 upgrade
I use a USB disk to backup my Ubuntu machine and store the video files I work with. It is formated to ext4 and uses LUKS encription. When I was using 12.04 it was working flawlessly and would mount ...
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How to automount usb external hardisks in ubuntu server 12.04?
How can I automount USB HDs ? I installed usbmount but seems not working. Here below a few details:
sudo fdisk -lu:
Disk /dev/sda: 20.4 GB, 20416757760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2482 ...
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messed up with mount and naming a partition - delete a folder in file system
I have a partition /dev/sda8 which I want to name it "Documents" and automount.
Because I have a long time to use these commands ,I messed up a little (not that I am familiar).
I used gparted and ...
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How do I get a persistent mount between boots?
I guess I should start with what I've got and where I am now:
I added a (true) hardware raid 5 array to my 12.04 install (on a separate disk)
I chose to format the 4 TB volume w/o any partitioning. ...
