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Automount problem when mount point in user home directory

A correctly structured fstab entry exists for a /dev/sda2 partition, which is slated to mount at ~/DataStore. However, even after throwing the kitchen sink at the issue, the partition never ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 usb drive only available after opening in Nautilus

I'm running a vanilla install of Ubuntu 16.04. There's a USB drive that I want to access through Plex but it's not available to Plex (the media server is unable to access files) until I have manually ...
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Disable automount of second internal drive, to mount it myself

For the first time I'm running Xubuntu (Ubunut 16.04 LTS, xenial xerus) with two internal drives. 1) is an SSD with the OS installed on it 2) is an HDD which is supposed to be my storage I used the ...
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Windowes share dosn't mount at startup

I'm trying to get a windows share to mount at startup. I have followed this description. It works fine to run a sudo mount -a But at restart / boot nothing happens. My fstab looks like this //erik-...
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External hard drive seen only when connected on boot

Which info should I provide about hard drive? It's a brand new Seagate 1TB 5400 rpm 2.5" put into a cheap Chinese USB 2.0 "Icy Box" external encasement. It always gets "noticed" by Windows after a ...
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set mount option to write drive for PCManFM

I am using PCManFM as a file manager. I set PCManFM to autodetect my drive: I have 2 rules for polkit: polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if ((action.id == "org.freedesktop.udisks2....
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Ownership/permission problem with automounting exfat drive

I'm new to Linux and am having problems automounting an exFat-formatted partition on a Lacie-disk in Ubuntu 16.04. I installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils and could then mount manually using: sudo ...
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Seagate 4TB USB HDD not auto-mounted - reformat or not?

Just got a Seagate 4TB USB HDD for back-ups, and it's not automatically mounted by 16.04 xenial. This is what I'm seeing from dmesg: [ 4332.436035] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ...
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How to give read and wite access to root group and others on automount for vfat filesystem?

I have a vFAT external HDD. I want to automount it on startup. I've edited the fstab as following: UUID=70F7-0C26 /media/eHDDs/Transcend vfat defaults 0 0 But the read and write permission is ...
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automount exfat permissions

When automounting an exFat USB, how do I define directory permissions and mount options? I have a system (ubuntu 14.04.5) that is shared between multiple users, but only one (UID=1000) can attach USB'...
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Ubuntu unable to automatically mount the disk

I have recently bought an external hard disk. However, when I plugged it into my computer, ubuntu fails to automatically mount it. I have to manually do it using terminal: sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/...
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Automatically mounting USB drives on boot

I have a Plex media server installed on Ubuntu 14.04, which use two external hard drives (/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1). I would like to automatically mount these at boot to /media/drive1 and /media/drive2 ...
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How to configure a NFS mounting in fstab?

I have a NFS share folder on a FreeNas system. I'm able to mount this share and use it with this command: mount -t nfs -o proto=tcp,port=2049 192.168.0.216:/mnt/HDD1 /media/freenas/ I just don't ...
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This location could not be displayed. You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of"Shared_Folder"

I am using Virtual Box 5.1 on top of Windows 7 Host OS with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Guest OS. I have already installed VBOXADDITIONS_5.1.14_112924 and restarted the Guest machine. The folder appears as ...
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Default mount options

On an Ubuntu 16.04 or 14.04 system, are ext4 partitions mounted with data=journal, data=ordered, or data=writeback by default? I'm interested in both the defaults when mounting via /etc/fstab and ...
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auto mount NFS via autonfs

i have been wrestling with adding a (asustor) nas to my network last week and finally got to the point where i can mount folders via nfs in ubuntu and from my raspberry-pi running rune-audio. i ...
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Errors auto mounting google-drive-ocamlfuse

I recently set up google-drive-ocamlfuse so that I could use google drive from my desktop. I followed the instructions on this website: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-mount-your-google-...
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Disable automount of a specific mtp device?

On a Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop, I have a phone that is mounted using MTP as soon as I plug it in. I don't want this to happen, I actually just want it to charge off my computer's USB power. When I plug ...
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How to write a script that will run some sudo terminal commands automatically at startup [duplicate]

Every time that I reboot and log back into my desktop, I have to run some commands to make my computer work the way I want it to. Can I have a script run automatically at startup. The command that I ...
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Is it valid to copy a line from /etc/mtab (the line was added automatically) to /etc/fstab

I'm having the problem described here. But in my case the drive in question is already mounted, yet the link to something on that drive is broken. I never mounted the drive manually, yet it's mounted. ...
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USB flash drive automounts without write privilege for user

When I insert a USB external storage, it automounts to /media/usb0 and /media/usb1 (depending on if I have a usb drive already connected). When these drives are mounted, they are owned by root, so the ...
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Why do I get the error: "mount[1328]: error 2 (No such file or directory) opening credential file /home/username/.smbcredentials"

Before this issue, I was using version Ubuntu 15.10, but upgraded to 16.04 and was able to auto mount to my samba shares successfully using the default instructions provided at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/...
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How to define removable devices as music player & e-book reader?

I would like to use the removable media settings to open Rhythmbox when I insert my music player, and Calibre when I insert an E-book reader. The player is a Sansa Clip+ in MTP mode. The reader is a ...
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Why aren't my mounted internal partitions showing in the Sidebar

I have several partitions on my internal HDD. When I open a Nautilus window (any folder), the mounted partitions are not showing in the window's sidebar. This happened after I installed Ubuntu 16.10. ...
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Ubuntu can't mount my formatted SDcard [closed]

I tested it before formatting, working fine, then I used "Disks" (pre-installed) to format it. After that, both my file managers (Nautilus and Nemo) can't find our mount it. And also, "Disks" still ...
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Howto mount sd card at startup - Xubuntu 14.04

I need to run backups to my sdcard on a regular basis. But unfortunately xubuntu 14.04 doesn't mount my sdcard at startup. Can you guys point me to the right direction on howto make xubuntu automount ...
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How do I restore the USB drive auto-mounting in xenial?

External USB drives stopped AUTO-MOUNTING after upgrade to XENIAL. How do I restore that feature? My default session is KODI.
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How can I rename an NFS share as seen in Dolphin?

How can I rename an NFS share as seen in file managers? By default it named the share the NFS volume root location + IP info. Seems to work in Nautilus but not Dolphin.
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How can I make it so external media can only be mounted read-only on Kubuntu?

I want to make it so that any inserted media may only be mounted read-only, in a way it's only remountable as read-write by root. Is that possible? I'm guessing it could be possible with udev/polkit ...
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An external usb storage device auto-mounts with root permissions

I usually have no problems using USB sticks etc. with my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This time, when I inserted my 1 TB Seagate storage device, it showed up in the file explorer, but I was not able to copy any ...
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ubuntu 16.04 won't detect SD card on dell e7440

Few days ago I had no problem burning xbian on a SD card, today I've tried to do it again on a fresh card and Ubuntu refused to detect that I've inserted it. I thought that the new card may be faulty ...
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Unable to mount usb error

I am trying to mount usb on 14.04 LTS(Usually wors fine),getting error Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/username/383255103254D48A: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=...
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Mounting a drive speific to a user in Ubuntu 16.04

Need to mount a specific folder in hard disk specific to a user in group. Eg: System has a group called development which has many users A folder(/mnt/worksite/projects/documents of /dev/sda3) in ...
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Why can't I connect to my NAS?

I'm new to Ubuntu and installed the newest Lubuntu (old Laptop Toshiba Satellite L350 - 32 bit). I want to mount my (NAS-)HDD via Fritzbox 7360 (HDD is connected via USB to the Fritzbox). The NAS HDD ...
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ZFS, aufs automount and Samba

I have a server running 14.04 and ZFS (the zpool is mounted as /home). Each user's home folder contains a media folder, which I want to merge using Aufs (e.g., /srv/media) and then serve (read-only) ...
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Auto mount gamepad at js1 instead js0

I want to auto mount my pad at js1 when ubuntu starts the reason i want to do this is i want to play rocket league on steam, and joystick mounted as js1 is considered the second one so i can only ...
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External disk doesn't mount during boot

I have external hard drive box(with external power) with 8TB disk inside it. I added it to /etc/fstab as follows: /dev/sdc2 /big ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,nofail,data=ordered 0 0 The disk dosn't ...
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autofs and WebDAV - how to make them work together?

I am using placeholders for real server names and folders, however, I have tried to make them as representative of the real names as possible, so please do pay attention to my capitalization and ...
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Is there a "Edit mount options" (cog icon) in palimpsest in 12.04?

EDIT: Downvoters, please explain to me what is wrong with the question, so I can improve it. Thank you. I'm trying to change the default permissions of some automounted USB drives which are VFAT, and ...
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Mount AFP Fstab

I'm currently mounting my harddrive connected to my time capsule via cifs in my fstab on ubuntu, but i'd like to mount it afp for better speeds. //192.168.1.xxx/Storage /media/storage cifs password=...
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Can pam_mount be called from sudo env?

I'm building a compute cluster of Linux nodes (all Ubuntu 16, upgraded today!), so many users will effectively login to each node, and I want various network shares to exist without them having to ...
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How to add mount options when SD card is auto-mounted in GNOME?

I have an SD card that gets auto-mounted by the file manager (Nautilus in GNOME) when i put it in the reader on my laptop. However, I would like to be able to add some mount options like the ones in /...
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Mount Ext 4 Disk at boot

I followed this guide to get a 1TB Internal disk partitioned and mounted at boot. I then reboot the PC and can see that the partition is created and and is mounted but doesn't show under 'Files'. If i ...
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16.04 LTS server. Trying to use zfs but it is not auto mounting after reboot

So I am running a fresh copy of Ubuntu Server 16.04 (Did install the Ubuntu-desk on top of it but otherwise stock) I installed zfsutils-linux then using instructions from the Ubuntu zfs kernel ...
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Hard Disk's Swap Partition Inactive and Ext4 Partition Not Automounting at Boot

At my wit's end with this one.. Relevant desktop specs: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Two encrypted RAID 0 SSD disks that boot into / One 1TB hard disk for data storage The md0 (i.e., RAID) device has only an ...
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autofs fails with directories cross-mounted on server until root accesses them

When I try to access a directory which is cross-mounted on the nfs server, the result is an "Operation not permitted" error unless root has accessed the directory recently. If the directory is not ...
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How to make external drive accessible to a user e.g. webservers user

I have a program which creates some log directories using root next to the directory the user has given as argument to the script. I later chown them to my webservers user. The problem is if all ...
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Kubuntu 16.04: How to disable swap partition from auto-mounting?

I have 2 swap partitions on my drive, one for Kubuntu(/dev/sda7), the other for Kali Linux(/dev/sda9). After googling around for methods how to stop the Kali Linux swap partition from auto-mounting on ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 no devices shown in nautilus

Since today all my devices stoped showing in nautilus sidebar. I still can do manual mount, but it's not very convenient. I also reinstalled autofs with sudo apt-get install --reinstall autofs but it ...
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Automount USB drive as /media/USERNAME/LABEL

Quick summary: How can I arrange for USB FAT32 thumb drives to be auto-mounted as /media/USER/LABEL, with non-root read/write permissions? (There are a lot of questions here about automounting USB ...
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