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Disks utility options for automounting hard disk with rw rights

I am on Ubuntu 20.04.1 and I have a second hard drive: sdb1 (named mee_2) with one partition (FAT32). I used 'disks' to auto-mount it at start up. BUT as user I can not write on it... Which are the ...
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Ubuntu 18.4 cant start because of mounting error - what now?

I started my Linux and it takes forever to start. I already know that I can press "esc" so I can see what is going on in the back. It says "Failed to mount /media/x-data" See '...
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Upstart to automount USB in Ubuntu Server 20.04

I would like to have my home Ubuntu server automount USB devices. Currently, I mannually write sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/library However, I tried to write an Upstart script, start-library.conf in /...
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Auto Mount of a Network Drive

I've edited my fstab file to provide all the details of my network drive. It works fine, however, after my laptop (re)start, I still need to run manually sudo mount -a. Here is fstab line: ///192.168....
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Automatically mount network drive after connecting to VPN

Currently I connect to a VPN before I start work. Then at some point I notice I need access to a network resource. So I need to open file manager and attempt to access the mount point and it will ...
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auto mount problem

I use this command for auto mounting in /etc/fstab //192.168.1.205/Public /home/backup/ cifs auto,rw,user,username=admin,password=apassword,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0 to mount a shared ...
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LVM2 Partitions are not mounted after reboot

i have a ubuntu server system on a dell hardware with two logical LVM2 volumes. One is the boot system an the other is the data storage exist out of two physicall drives which are organized as a RAID1....
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What is the right way to automount drives for selected users using /etc/fstab?

I am currently mounting my ntfs drive using UUID=123FSDF345233 /media/user/Disk ntfs uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000,sync,auto,rw 0 0 UUID=123FSDF345233 /media/user/Disk ntfs uid=1001,gid=1002,umask=000,...
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"Too many levels of symbolic links" error when using systemd

I have following line in /etc/fstab: [email protected]:/home/sami /mnt/node fuse.sshfs noauto,x-systemd.automount,_netdev,users,idmap=user,IdentityFile=/home/sami/.ssh/id_rsa,allow_other,reconnect 0 0 ...
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Ubuntu is showing a Black Screen after booting up

Yesterday, I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my PC along with Windows 10. It was working fine but I wanted to mount my NTFS partitions. So, I created a mount folder at /home/Win and tried to mount one of my ...
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Does a mounted external NTFS drive (USB) need to be manually synced?

To be clear, the terminology of "synced" that I'm using here might be incorrect. I'm talking about the flushing through of the [write] cache. I am dding a local drive image to a file on my ...
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automount process starts 5 minutes after system boots

New to ubuntu, and I have been looking every place I can find to fix this issue. I really need my automount process to start when the system starts, not 5 minutes after. I have a program that starts ...
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Failing to configure automount on ntf partition on Ubuntu 20.04

let me give some context: I have a dual booting system (ubuntu 20.04 + Windows 10, over UEFI). Both SOs in the same disk (ssd nvme on m.2 port). Additionally a have a shared partition (same disk) with ...
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auto mount usb drives when inserted

I have multiple identical USB drives that I want to auto mount at specific points when they are inserted. I added an entry in fstab for each drive with it's UUID: UUID = uniqueUUID1 /mountPath1 ...
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Phone mounted read-only drives stacking up at /media

My mobile phone has a read-only volume on it to easily provide drivers for Windows. This of course is not needed on Ubuntu, but this volume mounts every time the phone is connected by USB. If the ...
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How to create automount 'vboxsf' for sharing folders in Ubuntu 20.04.1?

Ubuntu 20.04.1 complains about the command: sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf (username) with the message: usermod: group 'vboxsf' does not exist I suspect that the group was not created by the virtualbox-...
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Is it better to use UUID or PARTUUID to automount HDD with fstab?

I'm trying to setup my external harddrive to mount automatically on startup, following Akshit's terminal guide. I initially used the PARTUUID in `/etc/fastab' instead of the UUID: UUID=191486e0-6049-...
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USB storage devices disconnecting without apparent reason

The title says it all. My old (>10y) old box passed away, and since external storage devices have become really big and cheap, I decided to put my data to two of those. Yes, they might be slower ...
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fstab NAS drive entry

In fstab I mount a WD NAS « MyBookLive » with an entry in fstab using a fixed IP address (which was previously established in the router software). //192.168.1.105/<share name> /media/<share ...
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Prevent automount of USB HDD at login

This issue is particularly for logging in from the lock-screen, not startup. I have a USB hard-disk drive permanently connected to my PC. I want to leave it unmounted for the most part, only mounting ...
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How to automount specific zfs dataset at boot?

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 with encrypted ZFS on / and have now decided that I would like to make my /home directory a separate dataset. Initial Issue As per Proper way to create a zfs off an existing ...
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How can I automount a CIFS share in /home?

I have configured the machine using realmd and SSSD for domain join. When a user logs in it auto creates the home directory for that user in the local disk. I checked many articles but I am still not ...
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SOLVED: mouting partitions in newly installed Linux

I had a single HDD with 2 partitions, one for the OS and the other for my data. Now I added a SSD and made a fresh Linux install, following the same 2-partitions logic. Result: now I have 2 hard ...
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Mount points created with udev rule not visible

I'm using Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (upgraded from 18.04) and have the following udev rule installed: KERNEL=="sd?1", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/bash /usr/local/bin/media_hotplug.sh" The script ...
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Is it possible to update Snap Bitcoin-Core datadir to NFS mount point under /media?

I couldn't find anything specific regarding NFS storage in /media for bitcoin-core snap on Ubuntu. From what I could gather with limited understanding is that only /home and /media folders on host ...
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How to automount NAS drive on WiFi

I have Kubuntu 20.04 which I have connected to my (wpa2 encrypted) wifi. I have the password remembered in the system, so whenever I login to KDE the computer connects to my wifi. I also have NAS on ...
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mount a ntfs windows harddrive permanently at startup

I need some help when mounting a windows hard drive permanently at startup. As far as I red the documentation, I need to add a line in fstab So far I got the Info -- sudo blkid --- terminal /dev/...
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Thunar does not automount USB drives anymore

Automounting USB drives used to work fine. I do not know what I changed to make it stop working. The user account still has all groups configured, the media manager still shows the automount enabled ...
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make nautilus stop asking for password when mounting disk

My desktop has another hard drive which I intend to use for data storage and the issue is that nautilus always asks for password when trying to mount that drive. Same when I try and access the drive ...
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System Problem Detected Ubuntu 18.04 due to drive mount

I am using ubuntu 18.04 on Acer Predator Helios 300 PH-315-51, every time my system boots up it prompts me with a message System problem detected i noticed it is actually due to the auto drive mount ...
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Auto Mount NTFS Drive (on Ubuntu 18.04) to a Folder on Ubuntu Mate (Rpi4, Ubuntu Server 19.10) [duplicate]

First timer here and a Ubuntu noob, hope I can break down my question clearly. So currently have 2 setups: PC with Ubuntu 18.04, with 2 NTFS drives mounted back when I was using Windows Raspberry pi ...
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How disable the automount snap "disks"/drive?

I saw a lot of "disks" that comes from all thoses apps of snap in my Pc (Ubuntu 19.04), and I prefer disable the automount of Snap of thoses apps and mount the "disks/drives" when I launch a software. ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 -- USB flash drive automatically mounts for one user only, how to get access for other users?

When I insert a USB drive in my PC only one user (called e.g. foo) gets it automatically mounted in its /media/foo. Another user, bar, does not have it in /media/bar, neither can it access /media/l/...
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Ubuntu 19.10 zfs pool doesn't automount after reboot

Preface - I have searched and tried previous solutions with no avail. I created a zfs raidz1 pool naszfs using 3 external sata drives. The drives are attached via USB using the following enclosure: ...
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autofs issues over ssh tunnel

I currently use Fedora, and in an effort to come around to trying to use ubuntu, i have hit the following issue. in my environment i use NFS over SSH via an autossh tunnel, to mount a shared tools ...
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Auto-Mount NTFS drive via fstab - Ubuntu 18.04

I have modified fstab to auto-mount my secondary hard drive to a custom location and assign owner and group on Ubuntu 18.04. I am facing some issues and I know that probably the problem is on mount ...
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Mounting Windows AD share on active directry joined Ubuntu 19.10

Can anyone please advise the best way to permanently mount the Windows share on an AD connected Ubuntu. As the user is logging onto Ubuntu with his/her Active directory account that has access to the ...
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After modifying /etc/fstab, drives are still auto-mounting at boot time only

I added entries to block the partitions on an external drive (via USB) from auto-mounting at boot time. I tried using the UUIDs, and the block names (/dev/sdc1). (I need to be using the UUIDs.) ...
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How to Block Automounting of a Specific Drive (USB connection) With ** Three Mounted Partitions **

I need to block the auto mounting of a specific external drive (USB connection, by UID) that has three different mount points (partitions)? The contents of this drive were created with ddrescue - to ...
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I don't see a 3TB disk

I have 2 disks in my PC: one is 1TB where I have installed Lubuntu and another one 3TB (empty for now). I see both disks correctly in Disks, Gparted and KDE partition manager. But I can not make it ...
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Automount when clicking on disks in GUI file manager suddenly stopped working in Ubuntu. ("Unable to mount...Not authorized to perform operation.")

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 with nemo as the file manager, and out of nowhere I can no longer mount disks or partitions which show up just by double-clicking them, when just a few weeks ago this worked ...
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Service zfs-import is masked and unmask does not help Ubuntu 19.10

I read the information about how to make ZFS autoimport my zpools after reboot. The instruction was to enable zfs.target zfs-import.service and zfs-mount service. However zfs-import.service report ...
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How do you automount additional pools with a zfs root?

In looking through all the older advice on this, it appears that everything no longer implies, such as enabling zfs-import.service: # systemctl enable zfs-import.service Synchronizing state of zfs-...
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how to disable automount of usb drive in ubuntu 19.10?

I tried follow steps which worked in 18.04 but it does not work for 19.10: Create a file /etc/dconf/pofile/local with following content: # cat /etc/dconf/pofile/local user-db:user ...
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Where does automatic mount get the username?

It seems that removable media gets (by pmount?) mount under /media/[username]/. How is that username resolved? What if many users are logged in? What if no users are logged in? What if I just SSH to ...
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How to mount S3 bucket automatically on reboot

I am using s3fs to mount an s3 bucket on my Ubuntu server: sudo apt-get install s3fs sudo vim /etc/passwd-s3fs // <--put user access key and secret key in this file sudo chmod 640 /etc/passwd-...
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USB detected slowly and does not auto mount in Ubuntu 18.04

I have recently installed Xubuntu 18.04 on my Dell Studio 1558 laptop, and I find that by USB is now taking a long time to be detected and does not get auto mounted by the file manager. It used to ...
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usbmount - folder permissions (root)

I have a question related to usbmountand the root rights. I installed usbmount on my Ubuntu (18.04.2 LTS) and it mounts various USB-Sticks to the right folder (/home/user1/USB) I have specified in the ...
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Remove a deleted shared folder from a VirtualBox instance?

I have VBox 6.x running on Win 8.1, with Ubuntu 18.04x64 Guest. I reloaded an old Ubuntu image I had created and it still has references to a shared folder (that was formerly automounted) in the /...
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automount usb drive when connected to /mnt/ssd/ instead of /media/user/uuid

Trying to make a usb ssd automount itself to /mnt/ssd when it's connected to laptop. Instead of /media/user/UUID-******-*******. The ssd will be connected after the system boots. Is there a way to ...
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