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Questions about mounting filesystems automatically, either at boot time or when plugging in

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No icons for automounted volumes on GNOME / Nautilius desktop on Ubuntu 19.04

Up to Ubuntu 18.04, using default GNOME/Nautilius desktop, when I inserted a (data file) USB stick it would automount and put a USB icon onto the desktop. I find this very useful, especially for ...
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I want to automount USB with Nautilus in Xubuntu

I have installed Nautilus in my Xubuntu 16.04. and selected it as preferred file manager in Preferred Applications. Now the problem is that Thunar still operates in Xubuntu, for example, when I insert ...
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What causes loss of autofs CIFS share to hang Ubuntu 19.04?

On 19.04, I use autofs to automount windows shares. It works great until I shut down the windows machine. Doing so hangs my 19.04 machine. My nemo-desktop becomes unusable, and I cannot restart gnome. ...
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Set up USB flash to mount on startup [closed]

My USB flash used to mount on startup, but it has stopped doing it. I have tried what is described here: How to automatically mount usb flash drive at startup, but that hasn't worked. I tried to put ...
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Using spaces and cyrillic symbols in /etc/fstab

I need to mount directory from another HDD to my current home directory. I can do it by following command and it works properly: sudo mount --bind /media/username/HDD3TB/'Мои документы'/Фото /home/...
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Automatically access external drive at startup

OS: Xubuntu (XFCE), Ubuntu 18.04 I have an external sd card on my machine and a hotkey to automatically open folder on that drive. It works just fine except. The problem is when I first start my ...
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How can I auto mount an encrypted internal drive on Ubuntu 18.04?

I have a separate encrypted HDD which I would like to automatically mount when I login but the "Edit Mount Options..." is greyed out in Disks. How do I do this? Thank you.
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systemd.mount : x-systemd.device-ut?

In some source about nfs mounting (sorry I have lost the reference) I found information that led to this fstab setting that raises no error but which I do not understand completely. 10.0.0.110:/...
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auto mount drive or external drive on boot ubuntu 18.04 (dual boot system)

I have a dual boot system with drives that store data which I use to share between windows/linux. I want to setup an automount for these drives. I tried this to setup auto mounting on Ubuntu 18.04. ...
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USB Drives automount options on connect

I had to stuck in next problem before a week: The 2TB USB hard drive i own was mounted automatically with async option by default (my suggestion) while causing send data to the device be cached for "...
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SMB cifs wont automout using vers=3.0 in Ubuntu Server 18.04LTS /etc/fstab while using credentials file

If I login and manually run mount -a it mounts without any problems. But auto-mount is not running. I've tried the following: `//192.168.0.85/someshare/Directory /var/log/remoteMount cifs auto,...
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Automount slow shutdown and reboot

I have autofs mounting nfs and cifs shares. Everything is great except for slow shutdowns and reboots. I find the message "A stop job is running for Automounts filesystems on demand" with a 3 min ...
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Enable TRIM on secondary, encrypted ssd

I have a smaller, LUKS-encrypted ssd. I want to help get longevity if I can. I'm not sure how TRIM comes into play for an encrypted drive. I've looked at this Q&A on TRIM, and my main drive is ...
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autofs falling back to nfs version 3 instead of using 4

When I mount the nfs-shares manually nfs4 is employed. But with autofs even with the explicit specs in auto.nfs foo -fstype=nfs,nfsvers=4,rw 1.2.3.4:/export/foo only nfs-version 3 is used. ...
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How do I automatically mount LUKS drives upon login?

I have three hard drives in my PC, all encrypted with LUKS. When booting from the primary drive, I enter my password to unlock the drive and log into Ubuntu 18.04. From the file browser, I can click ...
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Unmount drive from emergency mode

I am running Ubuntu 18.10. I tried reformatting my secondary HDD (Ubuntu is on an SSD) to ext4 and changed the /etc/fstab file to automount the drive on startup. I must have done something wrong ...
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CIFS mount won't auto-mount after reboot

I have a rather small but yet annoying issue with my cifs-share. It mounts just fine when manually typing mount.cifs yaddayadda... But I want it to mount automatically after booting. I tried various ...
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Automount a logical volume on an external disk drive LVM partitioned

Problem I have an external HDD with one logical volume perfectly working that can be mounted with: udisksctl mount -b /dev/mapper/wd0hdd-wd0 It will create a new directory under /media/username/wd ...
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Trying to mount/unmount USB drives so that their contents can be seen in a docker container while it is running

I would like to mount and unmount USB drives such that their contents can be seen from within a Docker container while it is running. I've mapped the directory to the container which the USB drives ...
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What's mounting my systemd automount?

I've set up a systemd automount for an sshfs in /etc/fstab approximately as follows: me@server: /mount/point fuse.sshfs noauto,_netdev,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=900,...
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Systemd mount.nfs fails: Network is unreachable on Ubuntu 16.04

I've setup an NFS mount in the /etc/fstab file of an Ubuntu 16.04.6 machine. The NFS fails at every boot, I noticed that when the Unity Greeter comes up the network icon on the top right of the screen ...
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How do I relax the polkit service to allow udisk to mount usb drives on Ubuntu 18?

Having had several attempts to get Ubuntu 18 to mount a usb drive when it is plugged in, irrespective of whether there is a GUI based user present or not, I feel that I am out of luck. From what I can ...
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potentially corrupted microsd card after computer shut down during a transfer, not automounting

My microsd card no longer automounts when i plug it in. I can manually mount it via sudo and reformat it and it still shows in fstab: Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/...
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Ubuntu server 18.04 usb automount like it does desktop

How to auto-mount usb drive in /media/{USERNAME}/{VOLUMEID} in Ubuntu server 18.04. It work on my desktop but doesn't on server. I tried usbmount, but it works differently.
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How to make a single partition not mount automatically

I have a USB drive which has a data partition and a bootable Linux installed. The Linux installation is LUKS encrypted so it asks for password every time I insert the drive even though I don't even ...
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Auto Mount SDcard as a network share

Hy there, im new in the linux world so i apologize in advance for my dumb question. Is there any easy way to auto mount my SD-card as a network share? I am using a NUC NUC8i5BEH2 as Plex server and ...
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Auto-Mounting Samba Server Shares with GUI Shortcuts

I've referenced this post, this other one, that one, this page and the man which have aided me greatly in allowing for automatic mounting of Samba shares from a remote server on my LAN to my local ...
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How to automount with a chroot?

So in a chroot I have a /etc/fstab file. If I run mount -a in the chroot, it mounts the partitions listed. However, even when using the auto option, they do not mount when entering the chroot. What ...
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How to access a Windows 10 shared folder using virtualbox

I'm pretty new to Ubuntu. I want to try it as my development environment, since it will be cleaner than my home PC which is filled with games and kid's homeworks. I tried different Linux distros and ...
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Does systemd try to mount my luks keyfile?

Please help verifying if this is a bug or just misconfiguration on my part. When I try having my LVM setup decrypted on boot, using a keyfile, the system is trying to mount the path to my keyfile, ...
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Unable to mount CIFS share using AutoFS and Kerberos

I can mount a CIFS share using mount directly from my terminal: sudo mount -t cifs -o multiuser,cruid=1395409773,vers=3.0,sec=krb5 //fileserver2.mba.ac.uk/Z\ Drive /mnt shows the following in /var/...
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Data partition not listed when I want to open a file

Some software (Gwenview, Firefox,...) only show my system’s partition and not my data partition when I want to open a file. Only after I opened Dolphin (which lists them all), the other programs show ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Mount CIFS On Boot

I am new to Ubuntu and just only started using it. So please be specific if you are able to help me with my issue. I am trying to automount my Netgear ReadyNAS shared drive which is using SMB1. I am ...
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Ubuntu Automount corrupts ext4 partitions of Android install?

I've been experimenting with dual-boot between Linux and Android on an x86 device which came with Android + Windows preinstalled (Chuwi Hi10 Pro). I soon found out that simply booting Ubuntu (either ...
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CIFS not auto mounting after reboot

I have a 16.04 server that uses a cifs mount. The share is confiugred in fstab. However, it dosen't automatically mount after a restart. To mount, I have to sudo su and the mount -a as the root ...
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How do I automount a SD Card on /opt?

I just bought a brand new Dell Inspiron 3185 with a massive 1.6 GHz dual-core AMD Radeon R4, a whopping 32gig SSD and a mind boggling 4 gigs of memory; a veritable rocket marked down from AUD $380 to ...
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CIFS automount works on ubuntu 12 but not ubuntu 16

I'm trying to migrate a server from ubuntu 12 to ubuntu 16 and there is an automount being used to connect to a SLES 11 ftp server. I copied the configs from the u12 server to the u16. Packages: ...
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Bluetooth is always turned on when on startup. How do I fix this problem?

A few days ago I turned on Bluetooth on my laptop and then turned it off. Now I see every time I start the laptop, I see the Bluetooth is turned on and I should turn it off manually and sometimes ...
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automount vmware shared folder in ubuntu 14.04

I have shared by drive D: from my Windows 10 host to my Ubuntu 14.04 guest in VMware. Ubuntu successfully mounts this share into /mnt/hgfs/D. However I would like to automount it to /D on startup. ...
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Automount windows network share 18.04

Since updating from 16.x to 18.04 my windows network share doesn't automount. My /etc/fstab started like this, and worked fine in 16.x //SISKO/usb_storage /media/plex cifs guest,uid=1000,iocharset=...
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Modify group for all automount USB flash drives and external hard drives

I'm running both Linux Mint (17.2) and Ubuntu (18.04) on two different machines. When I plug in an external hard drive or USB flash drive, the drive is automatically mounted. A directory is created (...
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usbmount — fails to automount

On ubuntu 18.04 LTS server installation I have installed usbmount, with this /etc/usbmount/usbmound.conf: ENABLED=1 MOUNTPOINTS="/media/usb0 /media/usb1 /media/usb2 /media/usb3 /media/...
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Samba no longer mounts at boot

I have a samba shared drive that I use to keep files that are available to anyone on the network. This drive is mounted at boot on my computers. Here is the fstab file: `# /etc/fstab: static file ...
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How do I disable the auto-mounting of internal drives in Ubuntu or Kubuntu 18.04

I am running Kubuntu 18.04 w/ KDE Plasma 5.12.6 off of a USB drive. This is a full install, not a Live version. The drive serves as a portable system that I can use with most physical computers. To ...
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Udev correctly executes but usb stick won't automount since Ubuntu 16.04 and after

I have been running Ubuntu 14.04 until I installed 18.04. On 14.04 I successfully created a udev rule that upon certain USB stick insertion it run a script AND the system used to auto-mount the stick (...
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Auto-mounting several Windows shared-folders doesn't always work

I've got a problem with network shared-folders configuration in fstab: I'm on Ubuntu 18.04. I've modified my /etc/fstab, adding these lines: //192.168.x.x/Common_space /media/common_space cifs _netdev,...
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Execute "mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,password=aaa" everytime I reboot/log in?

How can I mount the network hdd everytime I reboot or start up my computer. It works just fine if I execute it everytime in the terminal but it's a bit tedious. Surely there's a way to automate this?
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internal sd card reader works, but without automount

On a new laptop I installed Ubuntu 18.04. Everything works fine, except for auto mount of sd cards. After inserting an sd card in the internal card reader, dmesg says: mmc0: new high speed SDHC card ...
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How can I ensure laptop mounts shares on boot if connected to WiFi?

I have several folders on my NAS set to automount on my Xubuntu laptop at boot, using a saved credentials file. Each one has an fstab entry that looks like this: # NAS home //192.168.1.111/Home/ /...
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No mount during boot; auto mount after boot

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. I have some mountable USB drives that cause the system to hang forever at boot time if it tries to mount them at that time, although the mounts work fine after the system is ...
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