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

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Auto mounting mobible SSD is low in Ubuntu20.04

My OS is ubuntu20.04, for mechanical mobile HDD, such WD of size 2T, the processing is fast, but for mobile SSD(Crucial X6), the auto mounting processing is slow, it takes almost 60s,In windows 10, ...
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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 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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automount a partition of a USB stick in a persistent live linux made with mkusb

How to automount a partition of a USB stick at /media/lubuntu/name every time the stick is plugged into the PC when the /etc/fstab file is empty on every new boot? I assume this is because I'm running ...
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How to automatically unlock on boot a Ubuntu encrypted boot disk drive?

Please, there is any way to easily auto unlock encrypted boot disk on Ubuntu, as we have using bitlocker on Windows? I saw this process, but I don't think that it will work (seems that I am not using ...
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How to mount a NTFS partition in /etc/fstab?

I have two partitions that I want to mount on startup: /dev/sda3 /mnt/devel ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda2 /mnt/excess ntfs defaults 0 2 The ext4 partition mounts fine (owned by me, ...
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Error mounting SD card when returning from suspend

I have a 128 GB SD card that I use for permanent storage in my Lenovo Thinkpad X1. I've mounted it in /etc/fstab with this line: UUID=37733366-e936-41df-983a-f084352b3a5b /home/kristian/sd128gb ...
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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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External drive mounts only as root

I'm having trouble with a USB drive. It used to automount just fine but for some reason those good old days are over. Not only does it not automount but mounting it as a regular user from Nautilus or ...
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Prevent mounting a partition in fstab

So I feel really bad for asking this question because it looks like it has been asked a million times on the internet. I am even finding a very consistent answer, and I am not getting any errors when ...
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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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Mount filesystem for a specific user at user login

I want to mount 2 existing ext4 filesystems for a specific user when the user logs in and ensure that they are dismounted when the user logs off. I am running on Ubuntu 22.04. The suggestions that I ...
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Mount Network Drive Permanently in Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

I want to mount a LAN Network Drive that I can access from Files/Nautilus as soon as I login to my Ubuntu desktop. I can do this manually with the following command: sudo mount -t cifs -o user=user,...
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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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Nautilus: Automatically mount a bitlocked drived upon login

In Nautilus, when I click on "Other locations" then "Encrypted Drive", it gets unlocked and appears as a mounted drive in the list. I would like that to be done automatically when ...
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How to disable on lubuntu 22.04 the opening of the browse window when a USB device is automounted?

I'm working with lubuntu 22.04. When I insert an USB device into one of the USB port of the system the device is automatically mounted and a files browse window is open on the screen. I need to ...
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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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using xubuntu linux, I created a udev rule to capture adding sdc-z* and mount in a directory, but gets mounted again in /media/user as well

I have written a shell script that is called by a udev rule when a new usb device is added and the partition matches /dev/sd[c-z]* . The shell script does get called, and my shell script mounts it in ...
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How to set up disk automount in Ubuntu Server

I'm setting up a small home server consisting of a Raspberry with Ubuntu server. Specifically, I installed Ubuntu 23.10 (GNU/Linux 6.5.0-1007-raspi aarch64) I'm currently manually mounting every ...
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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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Added new drive but it's stuck as "read only file system"

Bought a new drive. Expected it would be easy to install... Shouldn't need to use commands for something every day users should be able to complete, so I followed this GUI guide: https://www.zdnet.com/...
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Ubuntu Server 22.04 unmounting usb external drive

I have a thin client PC, running Ubuntu Server 22.04 with Jellyfin and Samba on it. As the machine have not much internal storage, I am using 8 TB external USB drive. I've set OS to automount the ...
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root fs remounted automatically with USB drive plugged in

Hi experts and fellows, Im running Ubuntu 22.04.3 on an ODROID N2+ SBC from 128GB MMC and having an issue with remounted root filesystem when plugging in an USB Drive. Situation "boot" is ...
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Error loading ubuntu boot, ubuntu live sees main boot SSD, but not storage HDD

My computer is dual boot windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. I have two windows drives (1TB SSD OS, and 1TB HDD storage) and two Ubuntu drives (256GB OS, and 2TB storage). I was unable to load the Ubuntu OS ...
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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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unable to make an external USB 4TB exfat SSD drive user-writeable after manually mounting it

I went through every question & answer about mounting external exfat drive on "Ask Ubuntu", but none of them is of any help to my situation. Hope that someone can help me out. I am ...
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Stop automount of new loop device on Ubuntu 22.04

When creating a new loop device with udisksctl (command below), I want Ubuntu to only create the device without mounting it automatically. How do I do this on Ubuntu 22.04, and why did this work on ...
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Cannot auto mount a CIFS device

I am trying to mount a USB device (acting like a NAS) onto my Ubuntu (20.04) server. Running the below works fine via ssh sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/"Music (at BackupNAS)"/CD /media/...
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Why does system asks for encryption passphrase the INACTIVE user when mounting encrypted external drive?

When I am the only user logged to my laptop (XFCE session), mounting encrypted portable HDD works as expected: I connect HDD to USB port. A window asking for encryption passphrase pops up. I enter ...
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How do I auto mount my partition?

I've a partition on /dev/sda2 of 279 GB Ext4 filesystem, but I'm not able to auto mount it on login. I've added the partition entry /dev/sda /home ext4 defaults 0 0 in /etc/fstabt still it ...
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Fstab doesn't mount with exec

I have an ext4 partition that I mount using the following fstab line UUID=41dec246-654d-4e35-9d4e-68150e40c5b0 /mnt/Data ext4 defaults,user 0 2 But then I realized that I can't ...
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Can't Mount SSD (where windows and my files are located) Need to Save Files from there

I need to save some files from my personal computer but most of them are under windows user folder. With USB, I plugged in try ubuntu and can see my HDD but I can't access my SSD (where all files I ...
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Mount specific removable media with mount options by default

I run Ubuntu Mate 22.04 and I have a USB mass storage device (aka USB-Stick) that is formatted with btrfs. I know it's partition UUID and label and I want it specifically to be mounted with specific ...
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How to disable automount in nautilus's preferences

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 (64 bits) and I do not want to mount automatically USB thumb drives in my system. I tried the command dconf-editor and gconf-editor but there isn't the icon to disable it in ...
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Automount CIFS / SMB that gracefully handles a non responding server

There are lots of pages that show how to configure the system to automatically mount a network share accessed by CIFS (fstab, autofs, systemd.mount, probably even more). But they fail (at least my ...
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Persistent accessibility to a local network shared folder on Ubuntu

How can I ensure persistent accessibility to a local network shared folder located at /run/user/1001/gvfs/afp-volume:host=test.local,user=anonymous,volume=Public/Shared/Test on my Ubuntu 23.04 machine?...
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How to auto mount with full permissions using gnome-disk-utility?

I have gnome-disk-utility installed. It mounts a secondary hard drive I have, but it does not do it with write or execute permissions. How do I setup gnome-disk-utility to mount a hard drive with ...
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Mount exFat drive on Ubuntu not as root

I realised that Ubuntu automatically mounts my internal drives which are some exFats automatically when I try to open them. Thats good. However, it is mounted as "root" and I want to mount it as my ...
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Avoid adding numbers to USB disks partition label/UUID when mount point exists under /media/user

I'm using Ubuntu 23.04 and I'm assuming that Ubuntu is using autofs to auto mount. I'm unfamiliar with autofs configuration. When I connect my labeled external drive(s) via usb, they automatically ...
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How to mount a shared folder of a windows system in Ubuntu Permanently?

I need to mount a shared folder of a windows system in ubuntu with read / write permission permanently. How do i do that? Note: The windows system is connected to domain. Say the ubuntu system has ...
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Red icon for automounted disk / partition in nautilus (why?)

i've recently reinstalled ubuntu a few times because i had issues with nvidia drivers. But after a recent reinstall, i now have a red icon in nautilus for a partition i enabled automount for via the ...
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Containers loses its volumes which are autofs sshfs mounted from a remote server to the host. How can I autorecover when the mount is down

I use autofs to mount a remote folder via sshfs to my local machine. On the local machine I have a docker container running which uses the same mount as a volume. If for whatever reason the mount is ...
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Ecryptfs automount on startup

i just updated Ubuntu to 22.10 - and after each reboot I have to mount my home files (encrypted with ecryptfs) manually via terminal. Is there any solution to automate this? Before updating it was ...
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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 can I auto mount a SSD on boot

I have 3 NVME M2 internal ssd's in my system, only the main SSD auto mounts. The other 2 I have to manually right click on them and choose mount for my gaming program Lutris to access it. How can I ...
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Process '/usr/share/usbmount/usbmount add' failed with exit code 32 (automounting sd cards)

After updating to Ubuntu 22.04.2, usbmount no longer works. /var/logs/syslog contains the following: May 21 13:57:44 homeserver usbmount[8979]: loaded usbmount configurations May 21 13:57:44 ...
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automount remote machine directrory

i have 2 ubuntu servers 22.04 i installed samba server on one of them (give it samba name with ip 192.168.3.10) and on the other (called access with ip 192.168.3.11) i used it to let the user logging ...
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Unable to auto mount a data disk from /etc/fstab but mounts with mount -a command

Here are the commands I ran: ~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 63.3M 1 loop /snap/core20/1852 loop1 7:1 0 49.9M 1 loop /snap/snapd/18596 loop2 7:2 ...
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fstab folder mounting not working

I was following this guide on how to mount VirtualBox shared folders. I've done every thing said in the guide. but the the folder is not auto-mounted when Ubunut is booted. i can mount it manually as ...
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SSD appears in BIOS but it doesn't appear in the terminal

I have a brand new Ubuntu PC with three SSDs connected and they are shown in the BIOS. However only two of them are shown in the terminal. Running udisksctl status I get: MODEL ...

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