Questions tagged [automount]
Questions about mounting filesystems automatically, either at boot time or when plugging in
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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 a NAS during boot?
I'm trying to mount a NAS drive USB connected to my Netgear 4300 router with NO password using 14.04.
I have tried several options in the fstab file (including the ones here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/...
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Automouting NFS share inside NAT'd LXC container fails
I have 2x Ubuntu 14.04 LXC setups
One is on bare metal hardware and containers are assigned IP adresses directly from the network
The other one is on an ESXi virtual machine and using NAT via the ...
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Hard Drive Dying
I'm using Lubuntu 14.04 on my older desktop. Sometimes when booting up, I get a message that "/" or "/tmp" could not be mounted, or else a disk error was detected and a disk check will start executing....
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Ubuntu 14.04 - autofs and bind mount
is it possible to tell autofs to use "mount --rbind..." instead of "mount --bind..." by default?
The reason is that we are exporting a folder, let's call that /exports, which holds different other ...
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Set a hook on eCryptfs mount
I want to run several commands as root after my eCryptfs is mounted on my login. Can I somehow set a hook for that? Can I do it with systemd?
What I want to achieve is to mount automatically on login ...
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Cannot mount hfs partition on read/write
In ubuntu 15.10 I am trying to mount a hfs (max osx) partition on start up. In /etc/fstab I have added this line (notice the rw option):
/dev/sda2 /home/mac/mac-mount hfsplus rw,defaults 0 0
After a ...
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ZFS Pools are not autoloading on Ubuntu 15.10
I have install Ubuntu 15.10 to a USB drive, and while everything works mostly, I have to perform a lot of manual tasks after a reboot. I am using the computer for my media center.
There is a similar ...
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Secondary hard disk does not auto-mount
I have a secondary hard disk (8 TB, ext4) that does not auto-mount on OS startup despite "auto-mount" being set to "on" within the "Mount Options" of the "Disks" utility application.
How do I enable ...
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drives mount after switch to windows and get back to ubuntu [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 beside Windows 8
When I boot Ubuntu windows NTFS drives don't open and show this:
Error mounting /dev/sda5/ at /media/username/Ali : command-line mount
-t "ntfs" -o
But ...
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autofs is not able to mount the remote folder
Hi I am trying to automount remote file system using autofs. For this I installed autofs
% sudo apt-get install cifs-utils autofs
Then I edited /etc/auto.master to have the following line:
/ufs /...
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mount HD with "special rights"
I auto mount (on boot/startup) an external (USB) HD on my Ubuntu Server. But, my webserver must see, and have access to the filesystem on this HD. My System is 3.16.0-53-generic #72~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP ...
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How can I automount cd in Ubuntu 14.04?
The problem is that my music CDs, and also try with virgin-CDs, do not mount automatically when I insert them. I have to mount them from nautilus and after that I'm ready to listen to it in rhythmbox. ...
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How to change permissions of automount?
I set up a Ubuntu 14.04 machine for my family.
I noticed that when I insert a USB key it gets automounted to /media/$username/$volumename. /media/$username has an ACL that only allows $username to ...
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Prevent USB Drives from auto-remounting after remove
When I press "safely remove drive" in Nautilus as user to my USB 3.0 Transcent Storejet 25H3 drive it reconnects immediately.
How can I safely remove it without that behaviour?
I think the only ...
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getting rid of dialog box when android phone connected [duplicate]
Since upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04, whenever I connect my Android Galaxy SII to my laptop via USB to charge, I get a dialog box that says
Unable to mount SAMSUNG Android
Unable to open MTP ...
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No boot into Unity after turning on automatic mount options for hard disk
My updated Ubuntu 15.4 desktop has a SSD drive (sda) and a hard disk (sdb). It boots from the SSD drive. Then I needed to click on the hard disk in order to mount it. Because I wanted my PC to ...
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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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CD/DVD drive not mounted when inserted with Disc of any kind
I just noticed that if a insert a CD or a DVD of any kind, the Drive will start spinning but it will not show the mounted disc. Earlier it used to ask me what to do with the media inserted. Now it ...
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How do I change the default permissions for automounted USB media?
tl;dr:
How do I make gnome automount USB devices with permissions so that everyone in the group can access them instead of just one user that is logged in at the time the USB storage is plugged in?
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Automount CD/DVD to /media
So.. a few months ago I upgraded my system from 13.10 to 14.04 LTS. Clean install, everything fresh. I haven't had to insert a disk until just now and I've come across a problem. Specifically, ...
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Remounting an USB-device
When I connect an external HDD or an USB stick, it gets mounted automatically under /media/<username>/<name>. Clicking on the "Eject" button in the file manager unmounts it.
Once it's ...
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USB devices do not appear in desktop or launcher (not automounted)
After a recent upgrade, the USB devices are not appearing in desktop or launcher.
When plugged in, devices power up. lsusb shows this output,
<truncated>
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 174c:5106 ...
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Build mount points from multiple files
I was wondering if anyone has seen a way of specifying mount points in multiple files?
My scenario is as follows: I am trying to automate desktop provisioning and setup, using a combination of ...
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Transient incorrect user and group name mapping of NFS4 automounted files on Xubuntu 14.04 client
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xubuntu 14.04, automount, 4294967294, incorrect user name mapping, nfs_v4, solaris11 server
I have a Solaris11 fileserver that exports a couple of file systems over NFS.
The Xubuntu 14.04 ...
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Writable access for all users in fstab
What should I change in this line so every user can have writable access: curlftpfs#root:[email protected]/mnt/usbmounts/sda3 /media/MediaPlayer fuse rw,uid=1000,umask=0777,user,suid,allow_other,...
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USB drive might be broken. How to find out for sure?
I got this USB drive from my father. It doesn't show up in the GUI anymore and in fact couldn't even get mounted properly.
Below is the dmesg output from the time I plugged in the drive.
It does ...
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Automount drive on startup
I have an internal HDD with all my Steam games loaded on it. Everytime I boot my pc I have to open the HDD in the File Manager. Otherwise Steam does not recognise it and I have to manually add the ...
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External drives will not automount until I log out and in again
Issue: When I boot up Ubuntu external USB drives such as my external HD and thumb drives, as well as the Windows partition are not recognized or mounted until I log out from the user and log in again (...
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How to automatically eject drivers disk when mounting Android phone?
I have an Alcatel One Touch 4045D android phone.
It did not mount in Ubuntu until I added the IDs to /lib/udev/rules.d/69-libmtp.rules.
But the phone mounts as a CD with "USB Driver". If I eject ...
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mount an mdadm raid 1 drive at boot
I was wondering if you guys could help. I am looking to mount my mdadm RAID 1 at boot.
The drive location is /dev/md127 and I would like it to mount to /media/server at boot. It is formatted to ext4....
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Ubuntu 14.04 Virtualbox Guest USB Drive Mounting Works For Some Devices but Not Others
I have a VirtualBox ubuntu guest running on a osx host. I've searched the web and implemented the solution for similar problems, but nothing has helped me resolve my issue.
When I connect my phone, ...
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Why does it take 5-10 minutes to mount an external HDD?
I Have an external HDD drive (USB 3.0, 750Gb) almost full.
When I connect it to a USB Port in my laptop (USB 3.0 or USB 2.0), it takes forever mounting it (like 5 to 10 minutes) but finally does it.
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Can't automatically mount ext4 partitions under Ubuntu 14.04 (but can mount NTFS ones)
So I just got alongside my Windows 8.1 a cool Ubuntu 14.04 and quite happy with it (my default OS now). I just have a problem: the fact that I can't mount ext4 partitions at boot is quite annoying. I ...
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With fstab, how do I automatically mount an NTFS partition with full permissions for every user?
With the fstab file, how can I mount my /dev/sda3 NTFS partition at boot with full access by any user?
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Cannot unmount USB o write on USB as normal user
I have the following file of rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/
KERNEL!="sd[a-z]*", GOTO="media_by_label_auto_mount_end"
# Import FS infos
IMPORT{program}="/sbin/blkid -o udev -p %N"
# Get a label if ...
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NTFS drive does not automounts
I have an NTFS drive that is set to automount at startup but for some reason it doesn't. (There is another drive with same properties that does.)
Any ideas why?
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Problem with automount and exfat fstype
I need some help to configure automount with exfat filesystem (no problem with ext4 for example).
$ sudo automount -f -v
$ ls /home/user/automount
Automount return this error.
mounted direct on /...
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External HDD automatically get back after safe remove
This is weird!
I use udisks --detach /dev/sdb for safely remove my hard disk.
after 2 sec hard drive automatically mounted and nautilus window pops up.
This is output of udevadm monitor --udev.
UDEV ...
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How to automount user homes from MS Server via sss
I'd like to make an Ubuntu box member of an AD and automount home directories during login from a Samba server.
I managed to join the AD the realmd way. So I can look-up users and their passwd lines.
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System does not boot after setting Display Name for main root partition
I tried to make all of my NTFS drives auto-mount. I only checked "Mount at startup" for all NTFS drived. Meanwhile, I set "Display Name" for all NTFS drive and my only Ext4 partition (where / is ...
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Disable auto-mount of *only* Camera SDCard on USB connection
I have a question regarding the auto-mounting of my Nikon camera.
When the camera is connected via USB the memory card of the camera is mounted and displays as a drive on the task bar. This causes ...
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automount ntfs partition read-only if not cleanly unmounted
I have configured to automount my ntfs data partition on boot:
# /media/Win8 was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=A47A42FF7A42CDAC /media/Win8 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
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Additional hard and flash drives not detected/mounted automatically in bookmarks/computer
I restored a copy of my Ubuntu partitions that was made yesterday. Everything is OK, except that I cannot see my additional hard drives from the launcher (they were showing when the disk image was ...
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Why does my Eee PC try to mount the extended /swap partition?
In PCManFM on the left side there is a volume called "1,0 KB Volume". When I click on it, it shows an error message that it can't mount /dev/sda2, but /dev/sda2 is extended partition with the swap ...
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Change the downloads folder to downloads in other partition and mount at bootup
I have a setup where I basically split my hard drive into three partitions (forgetting the swaps and allsorts)
Windows partition
Ubuntu
Data
I would like to get things set up in a manner in which I ...
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Automatic mount of second drive in 15.04
I have upgraded my Ubuntu to 15.04 from 14.x and I find that I have to manually mount the secondary drive for it to become operational. This is a pain since my /Downloads folder has been directed (by ...
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Cannot create user with auto-mounted encrypted home dir in Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS desktop
I set up a machine with 14.04.2 and used the encrypted homedir option, which works fine from the installer. I went to move some stuff around, and ended up re-installling. I have been trying to create ...
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Why mounts are shared on Ubuntu 15.04, and how to turn it off?
This breaks unshare(CLONE_NEWNS), and feels like leftover from some testings.
Ubuntu 15.04:
nir@reed:~$ grep '/ / ' /proc/self/mountinfo
21 0 8:5 / / rw,relatime shared:1 - ext4 /dev/disk/by-uuid/...
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How to automount a share on every user on the computer? [duplicate]
I want to automount a share from a Ubuntu file-server on my Ubuntu client.
I managed to actually mount it with with the following line in /etc/fstab :
//192.168.1.64/myProj3kt/myProj3kt /home/...
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