Questions about mounting filesystems automatically, either at boot time or when plugging in
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How to automount removable devices with options?
I'd like to automount (using the XFCE desktop) USB devices with Btrfs. This works as with any other filesystem just by plugging it in and waiting for two or three seconds for it to appear under ...
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The disk drive for /media/SDbackup is not ready yet or not present
On an Acer Aspire One 522 netbook, the boot process stalls with the message: "The disk drive for /media/SDbackup is not ready yet or not present. Continue to wait, press S to skip or M for manual ...
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How do I get a persistent mount between boots?
I guess I should start with what I've got and where I am now:
I added a (true) hardware raid 5 array to my 12.04 install (on a separate disk)
I chose to format the 4 TB volume w/o any partitioning. ...
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automatic mount any external drive under /media with read/write access to everyone
Here is my issue:
My computer has 4 USB ports and is running Ubuntu 12.10. I receive different USBs every day, plug to my computer, read/write data to them, and then send them away.
What I want is ...
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How to automount NTFS usb sticks on Xubuntu 12.10?
I'm running the Xubuntu 12.10 on a Lenovo T520 laptop.
If I plug a FAT formatted usb stick, it's mounted automatically, but if I plug in a NTFS formatted one, I have to mount it manually.
How to ...
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Can´t mount win8 partition in Ubuntu 12.04
After installing Win8 and then used WIMI to install Ubuntu. The operative systems work fine, now to my trouble.
I Can´t mount win8 partition in Ubuntu 12.04.
Is this a known error?
How can I fix ...
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Cannot automount any usb external device under quantal
I recently upgrade to quantal and I have to mount all my devices (usb key, extrernal hard drive and even data cd) manually.
I get the following error message in a pop-up window when I insert any ...
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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 12.04 Server auto mount usb to static location
I am trying to get a USB external hard drive (ext4) to automatically mount when it is plugged in. I used to have it working but has since stopped. I have tried the usbmount package however it will ...
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Sharing an encrypted home directory between Ubuntu installs
I am trying to "share" a home directory between two separate Ubuntu installations. On my HDD I have an Ubuntu 11.04 installation with a separate /home partition that uses encryption. My data currently ...
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How do I prevent automatic mounting of my android phone in 13.04?
gvfs is mounting my phone automatically when I plug it in, I don't want this for various reasons.
How do I disable automatic mounting for this specific device, but continue allowing other USB devices ...
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USB emulated CDROM drive is not automounting (repurposed U3 smart USB stick)
I've used u3-tool to load a ISO onto my 2MB USB stick. If I'm running 13.04 or 12.04 and I place the flash drive in my PC, the remaining ~923MB fat32 partition auto-mounts, but not the emulated ...
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cifs shares not mounting (permission denied) lubuntu 12.10 via /etc/fstab
Before I upgraded to 12.10, I was able to mount my shares automatically. They're located on an Amahi Home Server running Fedora 14. I'm able to access them without any problems via PacManFM (I'm using ...
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Automount Encrypted Home partition on Boot
After update around 1 month ago my laptop did not mount encrypted home partition on login/boot (not sure when this happened before) - which results to unable to login.
Now I have to manually switch ...
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reasonable USB mount points
Plugging in my Android cellphone in Mass Storage mode mounts the SD card via USB onto an insane pathname like
/media/sp;<_html>/
which of course causes problems later with other programs like ...
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Quantal 12.10 - how to mount at startup with the new naming system?
I have noticed that Quantal now mounts each partition under a root like
/media/<user>
Since I need to auto-mount a partition at startup and this naming convention is totally new for me I was ...
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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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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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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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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.
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initctl status autofs is stuck on stop/starting
We have an issue with Upstart not restarting the autofs job when the automount process dies, and the Upstart job status gets stuck in the "stop/starting" state. The process is not automatically ...
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Sharing folders between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 in dual boot
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 as a dual boot in a preexisting Windows 7 PC. Both OS's are on an SSD and the Windows files are on a separate internal HDD ("Storage" in W7 : sda + sda1 in Ubuntu - I ...
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External HD, and USB stick suddenly not mounting
They used to automatically mount. but now they don't.
I checked the org....media automounting is enabled.
Any suggestion will be appriciated, Thanks in advance.
Running Ubuntu 12.10 with basicly ...
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USB pendrive not automounting at desired mountpoint
I have a 8 GB pen-drive. When I initially plugged it in it was automatically mounted at /media/device name and I could use it just fine.
However something changed. Now it gets automatically mounted ...
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Autofs+NFS unmount
I have configured NFS client to mount user's home using autofs automounter. /home of server is shared using nfsv3. I am using NIS (ypserve) for authentication. NIS and NFS both are configured on the ...
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Ubuntu will not automount external hard drive
I can't get my external hard drive to mount automatically. I can only mount it via the terminal. And even then, I also have to unmount via the terminal else I receive the warning in the attached ...
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Error when mounting hard drive
I have a hot swapable hard drive tray 5.5". When it loads the hard drive it give me this when I try to mount it:
Error mounting /dev/sdb2 at /media/av/disk: Command-line `mount -t "ufs" -o ...
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How to fix the error while mounting /etc/fstab at boot?
I keep getting the following message on boot-up:
error occured while mounting /etc/fstab
RESULTS.txt is as follows:
Boot Info Script 0.60 from 17 May 2011
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Auto-mount usb flash drivers for remote servers using bash file for scheduled backup operation
I have to do scheduled backup of servers' databases using a cronjob for the backup task and a bash script for the backup operation. It's a PHP web application. You can choose to store your backup file ...
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Auto-mount external USB cdrom in Ubuntu Server
I have an external USB DVD drive which I can mount successfully with sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom. The trouble is the mount seems to fail when I change disks, and it gets really confused if I ...
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Automount reports “syntax error in map”
I installed 12.10 64 bit and ported old autofs file to the installation. I found I had to create the auto.master.d directory and change my old autofs file name to auto.autofs so that the automounter ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 still auto mounts USB
I'm trying to disable auto-mounting usb drives - and having difficulties here. I uninstalled usbmount and pmount. I went into dconf-editor and unchecked "auto-mount" option. Yet, whenever I connect ...
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Automounting my fat32 external USB drive with fstab
My hard drive is a Seagate External HD and it worked perfectly out of the box. The filesystem was NTFS and it showed up on the left hand side in Nautilus with its own icon, and it was referenced as ...
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mount: can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
whebn I plug in the external hdd into the usb-port I get a message-window saying
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab or ...
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How to reenable Documents on iPhone?
So, I regularly plug in my iPhone to my computer to get voice recordings off of it. However, every time I plugged it in "iPhone" and "Documents on iPhone" would both mount, and "Documents on iPhone" ...
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Only root-permissions to USB-drive after formatting with Gparted
I formatted my external USB-drive with GParted to ext2 file system. After that the usb-drive is automounted with root-permission and now I only can write with sudo to the drive. Of course I can change ...
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Auto-select external soundcard?
Just got an external USB sound card because my internal speakers broke. The new sound card works just fine after plugging it in and going to System Settings > Sound, and then selecting the device.
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Ubuntu Server auto mount with fstab?
I followed this guide here: http://ubuntuserverhelp.com/mounting-with-fstab/
It worked after one reboot but after a apt-get update/upgrade it won't auto mount the /dev/sd drives anymore?
Anyone have ...
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Problems auto-mounting with fstab
I followed this guide: http://ubuntuserverhelp.com/mounting-with-fstab/
It seemed to work after one reboot but after a apt-get update/upgrade it won't auto mount the /dev/sd drives anymore?
Anyone ...
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Loss of iPod nano connection via VirtualBox and iTunes
I use VirtualBox 4.12 with Ubuntu 12.04, and up until a couple of days ago I was able to sync my iPod nano, my iPod Classic and my iPad via Windows XP and iTunes.
A few days ago, when I connected the ...
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How to launch Ubuntu without pressing F1 in Macbook 4.1
I am using a Macbook4.1. WHen I use sudo lshw -C disk this pops up:
*-cdrom
description: DVD writer
product: DVD-R UJ-867
vendor: MATSHITA
physical ...
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Network volume names now end with dash, fstab fails to mount
In Ubuntu 12.04, I finally figured out how to automount my password-protected NAS drive using fstab, but it stopped working after a recent update. I can still find the drive on the network, but after ...
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usb drive not automounting, and manual mount only lets root copy files
My sandisk cruzer 8GB flash drive doesn't automount anymore when I plug it in. lsscsi:
$ lsscsi
[0:0:0:0] disk ATA TOSHIBA MK6476GS GS00 /dev/sda
[2:0:0:0] cd/dvd hp CDDVDW ...
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How to mount fat32 automatically to manage pictures in Shotwell
I use Shotwell to manage my picture library.
The pictures are all on a fat32 partition, as I want to be able to access them as well from Windows.
With the fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04 I always ...
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One of the partion on a usb harddisk cannot automount
It is a very strange problem. My usb harddisk has four partitions, one is primary, the other three are logical (contained within an extended partition). When I plug in the disk, three of the ...
