Questions about mounting filesystems automatically, either at boot time or when plugging in
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Automount external hdd in fluxbox ubuntu -12.10 commandline install
I did the following:
Install command line interface with ubuntu alternate install 12.10 in vmwareplayer5(9.2.2)
After the base system was installed:
sudo apt-get update, upgrade and dist-upgrade,
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Ubuntu auto-mount nfs3-nfs4 (nis)
I an using netapp as a network file server (nfs). My operating system is Ubuntu 12.10.
I'm having some issues while auto-mounting from the netapp.. the netapp is working on nfs3 and
trying to mount ...
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Can't access external USB storage after updating to 12.10
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 after Windows failed me and Samsung got a bit pissy about providing any help.
I then upgraded to 12.10 after a week or two and suddenly my external USB devices no longer ...
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Audio CDs not auto-mounting
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 laptop with LG HL-DT-ST DVD RAM GSA-U10N drive and Ubuntu 12.04 system on it. Recently I have noticed a strange behavior: automounting only some of the CDs/DVDs that I ...
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Deferred swap files
I'm using a dual boot system with wubi so I have a swap file on /host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk
But I have also found Windows' own swap file and hibernate file are fine swap files, except they need to ...
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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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Accessing DVD or USB drive [closed]
When I insert a DVD or USB drive into the computer it does not open. Are there additional drivers that I need to install? I know the USB drive is working because I installed Ubuntu using it.
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Any easy way to have ubuntu remount all currently mounted devices on reboot?
Any easy way to have ubuntu remount all currently mounted devices on reboot?
I know that I can add the entries to fstab, but I would prefer a method that would just "remember" what I currently have ...
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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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SSD on USB 3.0 doesnt always mount
I would like to ask you for some support for this issue.
The SSD I use is apparently slightly damaged. Atm it shows this popular Corsair Series 3 problem. symptom: the disk is working for some minutes ...
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how can I make ubuntu 11.10 recognize my iphone 4! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I sync with my iPhone 4 and iPad?
I have an Iphone 4 and I am running ubuntu 11.10 but my phone will not mount to my laptop! help please anyone!?!?!
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Can I map Windows drives to Ubuntu?
I use dual-boot between Linux 11.10 and Windows 7 on my laptop.
There are Windows partitions:
C Drive - 360 GB
D Drive - 200 GB
E Drive - 80 GB
I installed Ubuntu in on drive F which is 30 GB.
The ...
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fstab won't automatically mount volume on home [closed]
I have somewhat a weird problem. I had installed Ubuntu 11.10 which severely crashed at some point (there was seemingly nothing I could do about it) so I reinstalled it over the previous installation ...
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How do I automount usb drives to /media/volume_label on a server? [closed]
As mentioned in the title, I'd like to automount usb drives to /media/volume_label in Ubuntu Server 11.10. I'd like to make this happen like it does with Ubuntu Desktop, but in an Ubuntu Server ...
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where camera are mounted?
I have a canon PowerShot A3100 IS camera, and, as written in the title, I wanted to know where does the automount mount it when I connect it.
Does anyone know ?
thank you,
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How to automount a partition on boot / Como hago para montar un particion al inicio del sistema?
Como hago para montar una particion al inicio del sistema?
Antes en Ubuntu 9.04 lo hacia con el paquete ntfs-config que me instalaba una aplicacion llamada "herramienta de configuracion ntfs" que ...
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How to auto mount disk drives in gnome-shell?
I have 1 usb disk and 1 esata disk plugged in my pc.
When I log in gnome-shell the usb one is mounted automatically.
Is there any way to mount the esata disk too, without modifying fstab?
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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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How can I disable the prompt to run programs for my digital audio player's memory card?
When I plug in my digital audio player two prompts to run programs appear simultaneously:
How can I disable the prompt for the player's memory card so that only one prompt is displayed?
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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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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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How to automount usb drive reliably without fstab
I need a way to mount a usb drive without using fstab.
I Cannot use fstab because the drive is not connected to my computer at boot. This causes an issue during any one off reboots because start up ...
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fstab missing on Ubuntu 12.04.1
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 and there is no /etc/fstab
This must be new in 12.04.1 because I was running 12.04 months ago and it was there. I didn't do an upgrade I did a clean install. Where has ...
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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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How to mount ntfs drive to home folder? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to automount NTFS partitions?
I have 300 gb NTFS drive with documents folder on it.
Is it possible to automount /media/300gb/documents to home/documents at system ...
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Samba user can't access external drive
If my external drive is showing up in /home/user1/.private, would another user not be able to view this? See link for example -----> Example
user1@UB-DT2-SERVER:~$ df -lhT
Filesystem Type Size ...
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How can I share a folder with Samba on a NTFS drive on startup?
On startup, I want a certain folder on an automounted NTFS drive (mounted on /media/Data), of which I've got ownership, to be shared with Samba. It should grant access to guests, but they shouldn't be ...
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Error when trying to mount windows share
I am able to view my share if I write the following
nautilus smb://privatenas
This open the shares on privatenas (C, home)
If I try the following
nautilus smb://privatenas/home
it opens a ...
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Fail to Create New Directory/File on automounted Windows drive
My Windows drives were set to be automatically mounted in Ubuntu 8.10 when installed more than one year ago. Today I failed to creat a directory on one of the Windows drives, which rarely happened ...
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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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Hard drive mounted at / , duplicate mounted hard drive after using MountManager
possible duplicate post
I'm running 12.04 64bit. My system is a dual boot for both Ubuntu and Windows7. Both operating systems are sharing the drive named "Elements".
My volume named "Elements" is ...
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700 instead of 755 permissions on auto-mounted USB HDD?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 (kernel 3.5.0-21-generic) on a laptop, and seem to have run into a strange problem with an auto-mounted external FAT32 USB HDD: The permissions of the drive's mount-directory, ...
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How to “un-automount” external harddrive?
So I dualboot 12.10 and Win7. Both OSs are on the primary SSD while all commonly used data (documents, movies, music, profiles etc) is on a secondary NTFS-formatted HDD.
Since I needed the NTFS ...
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Creating floppy drive special devices under Quantal
First, I'd like for the various special devices for different floppy capacities (like /dev/fd0u720 etc.) to be available. I tried to adapt some udev rules I found online. I tried this, which I saved ...
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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 ...
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shotwell bugs with a canon PowerShot A3100 IS
Well, I have a canon PowerShot A3100 IS, and I have some problems while importing videos.
When I try to copy them, it simply doesn't work, and when I try to import them, it starts buging, and the ...
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Partitions and cdrom are not automounted [closed]
Provide my spec and sorry for my poor English first.
MB: Gigabyte G31M-S2L (bios ver. F9)
CPU: intel E5200
2G RAM
HD1: WD 160G with 2 partitions
(partition 1:60G, NTFS, win xp; partition 2:100G, ...
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Location of Gnome Automount
Is there a way to tell nautilus where to automount specific devies - say, mount a device with UUID=xxx-yyy on /foo/bar?
Also, is there a way to disable/enable automount for specific devices (by ...
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How to auto mount Windows mapped drives per user?
I have a deployment which consists of Windows AD with a share folder for each user.
An example for that : the user john has a share folder \IP/Mapped_Drives/john
SO, what I need is to auto mount these ...
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Having problems with mounting USB flash drives [closed]
Sorry for such a long post :)
I'm not such an expert as I wanna be, but I'm still learning on my mistakes. Just recently I've encountered an problem with mounting USB flash memory sticks and external ...
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Unable to connect two ubuntu systems
I just got my new ThinkPad X121e and installed Ubuntu 11.10 ..everything is fine, except I can't get my data from my old EeePC (Ubuntu 10.4) to my new baby. The EeePC says it could not mount Ubuntu ...
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auto-mount another user's encrypted /home at login
I'm using encrypted home directories, and in my day to day activities, I have two user accounts I switch between, one for personal stuff, one for work stuff. However, it's fairly common that I need to ...
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transcend usb not auto mounting
I have a 16 gb transcend pen drive. One day I had partitioned into 4, and on one part I had installed ubuntu 11.04. But after that it seems the usb won't auto mount. I have used the fdisk utility and ...
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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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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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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.
