Questions about mounting filesystems automatically, either at boot time or when plugging in
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How to automount NTFS partitions?
I have two NTFS partitions, and I don't want to mount them everytime I start Ubuntu.
How can I do this ?
Is there a tool or a code to use?
If so, is it safe to automount? specially when they are ...
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How to mount NTFS drive at startup [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to automount NTFS partitions?
I'm not even sure if this is the right question, but basically I have a partition with Windows 7 on it (named Acer in my Ubuntu places ...
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Automatically mount NTFS drive when I login
I use Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows7 dual boot with Ubuntu as my primary OS.
Every time I need to access a document I need to mount the respective drive, though this is not at all tiresome, still, is ...
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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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How to mount an internal HDD on start-up?
I have a 500GB internal HDD where I store all my music and photos but it is annoying to manually mount it after a restart and I was wondering how to mount it automatically and make it available to ...
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How to auto mount my external hard drive?
On login, ubuntu 10.10 would not mount external hard drives automatically, While ubuntu 10.04 mount them on login.
I've tried Storage Device Manager but it give error when external hard is not ...
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Disable auto-opening nautilus window after auto-mount
Every time I plug a USB stick in, nautilus opens a new window with the contents of the drive. I would like to disable this auto-opening of the nautilus window, but I would like the actual auto-mount ...
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How to disable automount in nautilus's preferences
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 (64 bits) and I do not want to mount automatically USB thumb drives in my system. I tried the command dconf-editor and gconf-editor but there isn't the icon to disable it in ...
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Securely automount encrypted drive at user login
An encrypted /home directory gets mounted automatically for me when I log in. I have a second internal hard drive that I've formatted and encrypted with Disk Utility. I want it to be automatically ...
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What is the difference between “Unmount”, “Eject”, “Safely Remove Drive” and the eject icon?
When I right-click the desktop icon for my USB drive or SD card I have the choice to "Eject" or "Safely Remove Drive":
In the Tree side pane in Nautilus, I can either "Unmount" or "Eject":
The ...
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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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How to understand the flow of USB detection?
I would like to understand the flow of the USB events form the Kernel space to the User space (just out of my curiosity, in knowing how things are implemented).
To be more clear, I would like to ...
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How can I get a USB floppy drive to work?
I have a Toshiba USB floppy drive that I need to use under Ubuntu. When I connect it, and insert a floppy disk in it, I do not see anything mounted under Ubuntu 10.10.
I was suspecting the hardware ...
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Is setting default mount options for udisks really not possible?
I want to mount usb drives with option flush (or sync).
I'm using Kubuntu 10.10 and as far as I understood udisks is responsible for the mount options. I've read various threads and two solutions ...
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How to make hdd's mount at startup in ubuntu 12.04
How do you make HDDs and partitions mount at startup with the ubuntu system?
I always keep my media and data files on separate partitions - one 2tb HDD and a 400 odd gig partition. I have been ...
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Auto-mount CD/DVD drive to single, specific mount point every time?
Currently, whenever I insert a CD or DVD into my DVD drive, it mounts to a location such as /media/<LABEL>, where <LABEL> is the arbitrary label assigned to the optical disc.
I remember, ...
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How to mount partition permanently?
I am using Ubuntu Minimal + LXDE. I am wondering how can I auto-mount a partition (internal) on boot automatically. Currently I do something like
mount /dev/sda3 /works
But I want it to be ...
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Unable to Mount Seagate Array from Iomega
I am new to Ubuntu so please be kind!
My (Windows based) Iomega Storcentre ix2-200 stopped working, with all my business data upon it.
Iomega helpfully told me that I should get Fedora, remove the ...
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How to do create an auto mounter? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Additional file system and mount at boot time?
I am new to ubuntu and I need some help here.
I want to mount the file systems using auto mounter.
How to create a new ...
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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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“Documents on XXXX's iPhone ” folder opens up when I plug in my iPhone
Everytime I plug my iPhone into my computer (Ubuntu 11.10) a folder pops up titled "Documens on Jamie's iPhone."
How do I stop this?
Initially it asked me what I wanted to do,but I must have hit ...
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How do I change the automount point?
In Ubuntu 12.10 automount point has changed from /media/xyz (like was in 12.04) into
/media/"username"/xyz.
This is a problem for me because I've my photos into an external usb HDD and Shotwell ...
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How to automount a partition on login?
I have my musics in another partition of the HD, and I would like that, on login, the partition to be auto-mounted, so I can just open the media player and listen to my music. Is there a way?
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Disable auto-mount for particular partitions on USB drives
I have a big USB disk with 3 partitions: one for backup and two other bootable ones for installing and testing new distros. I want the backup partition automounted on boot. But I don't want the two ...
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How to automount my Windows partition at boot?
I have a dual boot Windows 7, Ubuntu 11.10 system.
Ubuntu was pretty much a vanilla installation and it was able to automount my two Win partitions.
I used to see them in Nautilus. To recover this ...
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How to auto mount a flash drive with root and read/write/execute privileges
I have an issue with mounting my Flash drive on Ubuntu 10.04 with write privileges. It's currently partitioned as Fat32 with Label KINGSTON but when I insert it into the Laptop it reads it as usb0, ...
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How do I correctly mount a NTFS partition in /etc/fstab?
After a nasty episode (my second, you'd think I'd learn) caused by unsupervised automated podcast downloads filling my entire partition, I've finally moved just ~/Music to its own partition. The ...
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Nautilus automount - controlling GID/UID/mode bits
How do I set GID/UID and mode bits assigned to the directory in /media, to which my USB drive is auto-mounted when I plug it in (i.e. to the directory, which represents the drive itself, e.g. ...
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Default mount options on auto-mounted NTFS partitions (how to add `noexec` and `fmask=0111`?) [closed]
I use auto-mounting of external USB devices, and it works as expected, except that NTFS partitions are mounted with executability flag on. For example:
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Elements type fuseblk ...
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Automount ext4 partition with user permission/ownership (fstab?)
I just installed Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" on my Acer Aspire One D257, creating the partitions:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 15G 2.1G 12G 15% /
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Triggering an action when a specific volume is connected
I have a USB key that contains my keepass2 password database and I'd like to perform some actions when it is plugged into my computer, namely:
Auto-mount it to some specific location
When the ...
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Auto-mounts ntfs drives in Read-Only Mode
I installed pysdm through this article to auto-mount my ntfs partitions.
My drive structure looks like this:
jatin@jatin-ubuntu:/media$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
...
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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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Do something when CD/DVD/Blu-Ray inserted [closed]
I have a headless 10.04 server with a BD drive. I'd like to be able to insert a blu-ray or dvd into the drive and have the server immediately begin ripping it with makeMKV/Handbrake. Basically, I need ...
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When manually setting up hard drives in the installer, how can I set custom mount points?
With previous versions of Ubuntu, you could specify mount points for various hard drives and partitions during the installation process. This was useful, because I have a backup hard drive that I set ...
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How to automount hard disks without the need for password at login?
I want my Kubuntu to auto mount my hard disks at login without the need for password.
I tried it through System settings -> removable media and checked "Enable automount removable media". But at the ...
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Can Ubuntu automatically mount a second, internal hard drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Automatically mount NTFS drive when I login
I have a second, internal hard drive for the purpose of backup. I use Back in Time to backup every hour onto this second ...
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How to setup Automount/Autofs
I've followed the ubuntu help docs for setting up NFSv4 on a server running Ubuntu 10.4LTS and now I'm trying to get Autofs (on ubuntu 10.10) to mount the exports, following these instructions. So ...
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Store the passphrase of encrypted disk in /etc/crypttab encrypted
I'm wondering, if I can store the passphrase of an encrypted disk in /etc/crypttab encrypted - and only possible to decrypt that by that OS, where I created. Is it possible?
(because, I want auto ...
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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 to I enable NFS caching for mounts made in /etc/auto.master [closed]
My /etc/auto.master is looking like this:
/usr/groups yp:auto.groups --timeout=3600
/home yp:auto.home --timeout=3600
/nistest yp:auto.misc --timeout=3600
/misc yp:auto.misc --timeout=3600
I want ...
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How can I automatically mount eSATA drives when plugged in?
What can I do to make Ubuntu automatically mount an external drive when it is connected to an eSATA port?
Currently I must go to Home Folder ▸ Go ▸ Computer and click on the disk to mount it.
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Why is ecryptfs only mounting private home directory over ssh?
The title says it all; my 12.04 server box will only decrypt and mount my home directory if I log in over SSH. Last night I needed some data off my server but I had left my laptop with my private keys ...
