The file fstab contains descriptive information about the various file systems.
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How do I mount a bindfs filesystem via fstab?
These are the relevant lines from my fstab:
UUID=c918752d-3a30-4355-9f40-ee3351ee7478 /mnt/data ext4 defaults 0 2
bindfs#/mnt/data /home/jan/data fuse owner=jan
After startup, mount does list ...
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Upgraded to 13.04, mount.cifs returns “Invalid argument” -22 error
Just upgraded my Ubuntu Server to 13.04, and the existing and working fstab configuration for a cifs mount is failing with the generic -22 error (invalid argument):
12:38 PM wesley at wsrv cwd ~
$ ...
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how to mount a hard disk as read-only from the command line
I have searched google, I've searched this website, I've searched using various terms, phrases, using quotes and without quotes and I cannot find the answer to this seemingly easy god damn thing to ...
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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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What is the difference between tmpfs and ramfs
I have read about moving the tmp folder to ram would increase performance and also read about ramfs using ram as storage and tmpfs using ram as strorage too but what should I use in /etc/fstab:
tpmfs ...
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An error occurred while mounting static
So you've edited /etc/fstab, rebooted and get some error message about mounting static. What's static? Turns out there's an easy answer to this.
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need help with unison
I finally converted my desktop machine from Windows Vista to Lubuntu 13.04. I am having trouble getting the unison file sync program (version 2.40.65) to work on the Lubuntu machine, despite trying ...
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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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Cannot mount NTFS partition in Ubuntu 13.04
After I installed Ubuntu 13.04, I can't mount my NTFS partition.
Error mounting /dev/sda5 at /media/mrxfly/xFLyDiskData:
Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o ...
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After a failure 13.04 distupgrade, mount is not working anymore with CIFS
I have a problem after doing a failure upgrading to the 13.04 distribution, after installing all packages the script was stopped before deleting all packages (due to a network interrupt).
After ...
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Permission denied viewing content of remote network share
I'm trying to mount a remote network share, but have trouble viewing the content.
It is showing up in my mounted devices but when I attempt to open it, I get
This location could not be displayed. You ...
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mount: unknown filesystem type 'cifs'
For some reason, I can mount my NAS using cifs as follows:
sudo mount -t cifs //10.0.0.210/data -o username=xxxxxxxxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxxxxx,rw,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755 ...
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Is there anything different in cifs for 13.04? I can't mount with old config
I've recently upgraded my station to 13.04 and all mounts I had on /etc/fstab stopped working. I can't even mount them at terminal (mount -t cifs ...), through smbclient or nautilus. I always get ...
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ubuntu12.10 an error has occurred, while mount 0
When I start my Ubuntu12.10 it says
An error has occured while mounting 0.
This occurs after I add UUID=4c9a51aa-6366-4275-ba92-32b7f40efde8 /media/hugh/data ext4 defaults 0 2 to fstab. ...
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Lost Steam games stored in NTFS partition upon upgrading to 13.04; can't re-add Steam Library Folder
I used a Live DVD to upgrade to 13.04. However, this reset my fstab file, which I had previously set up to auto-mount using pysdm. Because of this, when I reinstalled Steam, it was unable to detect ...
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SSD options in /etc/fstab stop machine from booting
I just recently installed 12.10 on a new Lenovo T430, and added these options in \etc\fstab:
discard, relatime
To \sda1 on which \ is installed. When I rebooted, I got an error claiming that it ...
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Can't boot ubuntu, not even in safe mode
At first I couldn't even access the grub menu. Booted from Live CD and repaired that with the grub repair tool.
Now when I try to boot normal, I get the purple screen thing.
I tried the nomodeset ...
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fstab error on boot
I want a 2nd hard drive to mount at boot
I have this in /etc/fstab
UUID=7726e231-4373-451d-8588-930becd772c6 /home/server/common ext4 0 1
When starting I get an error, did I misconfigure ...
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Fstab mount smbfs share for user noauto asking for password via GUI
I'm trying to do a connection for my work computers d: from my laptop.
Altough to have direct access to the disk I need to use the computers administrator account. And I would not like to save the ...
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Mounting NTFS drives with different permissions for various users
I have three physical NTFS drives on my machine (apart from SSD where Ubuntu is installed). Currently I use PySDM to auto mount them, although I'm not quite happy how it does it. I also have three ...
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Mounting main partition read-only and temporary folders as tmpfs
I have a small embedded board PC which uses flash card to boot and I'm running Ubuntu server 12.04. But since flash cards have limited lifetime I would like to mount it as read only and have only some ...
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mount webdav fails on reboot
i've got a vhost running ubuntu 12.10.
i installed davfs2 and edited my /etc/fstab file like the following:
https://somedomain.de/webdav.php/somefolder/ /mnt/s02 davfs defaults 0 0
now mounting ...
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why I have 2 swap paritions?
I'm new in using Ubuntu,
I just installed ubuntu 12.10 and everytime I start up the pc, a message tell me that
the drive /dev/mapper/ubuntu-swap_1 is not ready yet or not present
.
This is my ...
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help me understand lvm initial setup loop device
I have a (very) rough understanding of what lvm is, I'm finding it a little hard to grasp loop devices however. Anyway here's my issue:
Someone ran an Ubuntu server install for me and probably went ...
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MD arrays mounted incorrectly (no rwd)
I've got various RAID 1 & 0 (MDADM) arrays mounted in /media/ via fstab but I'm coming into trouble creating/deleting files from some of these volumes from the GUI and programs, it's as if they ...
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Mounting UDF hard drive partition at boot
How do I get a UDF hard drive partition to mount at boot? From what I can figure, mountall runs before the udf module loads.
Specifically: do PREREQ specifications in initramfs-tools hooks only ...
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How do I map users with a samba share?
I have a Synology Diskstation with a published windows share.
On both the server and the client (Ubuntu 12.04) I have user accounts with matching username and passwords. (myth/myth)
The share is ...
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Auto-mounting in Lubuntu
I tried set-up fstab for auto-moutning my ext4 drive:
/dev/sdb /media/vitaly/ ext4 auto,exec,rw 0 0
But Lubuntu can't start with this parameters: Mounting error: press S to skip mounting this ...
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filesystem is “read only” even though `mount` lists it as “rw”
I'm not sure what happened, but right now all filesystems (expecpt for / which is on a separate drive) are "read only" even though mount lists them as "rw":
$ mount
/dev/sda1 on /media/Data type ext4 ...
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Sharing /home partition between Linux OSs
I've been using Ubuntu as my main OS for a while, but I read about Elementary OS and I wanted to try it so I installed it.
I wanted to share /home partition between both OSs but I forgot to do it ...
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Hiding a 'removable device'
I have my downloads folder mounted as a tmpfs, achieved by putting this line into fstab:
tmpfs /home/sam/Downloads tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
However, one unfortunate side effect is that ...
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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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Problems with CIFS and fstab
Something altered my fstab and my NAS drives stopped loading properly at startup or when I run mount -a.
I see: mount error(13): Permission denied
I'm running 12.04.
Here's what I in my fstab
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fstab doesn't work properly [closed]
mis@hell:/var$ ls -la | grep www
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 01:22 www
mis@hell:/var$ ls -la www
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 01:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Mar 6 ...
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fstab mount mac share not working with new mac?
Hopefully someone can figure this out, because it makes no sense to me.
This is my original fstab line that has been working for years allowing me to auto-mount a shared folder from a Macintosh on my ...
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I broke hibernate when I set two distros to use the same swap space
I use Ubuntu as my primary OS, but I have also installed Fedora to see what all the hype is about. I made the stupid decision of making them share swap space, not thinking of the consequences on ...
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For fstab in Ubuntu 12.10, what does it show for the Ubuntu UUID?
I have had to change and unchange this so many times that I want to check what it should be in a new install version. My fstab is working OK, but I may not have all the correct options written in the ...
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Removing the filesystem quota on a partition
I want to install Dovecot on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and it recommends that we place the control files into a partition which will not be limited by the filesystem quota.
If I create an ext4 partition with ...
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Mount shared Ubuntuone folder
Is it possible to mount a folder, which is shared by another person into my Ubuntu-One folder (or any other) to my Ubuntu system (not the Web-interface). It also would be nice to do this via fstab.
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Laptop hangs when restarting
When issuing a reboot from Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 (Linux kernel 3.5), the laptop hangs for about 1m30s on the "Restarting System" line of the shutdown output. This only happens when I have a second drive ...
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Manual mounting of cifs works fine, but not in fstab
I have a mounting problem that drives me mad at the moment...
Using the manual mounting command
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/shareName /media/shareName -o ...
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Why does Ubuntu apply separate permissions to partitions mounted with the same parameters?
Here's my partition setup. I've shortened the UUIDs for readability, and, before anyone asks, I've carefully checked that I copied the correct UUIDs into /etc/fstab.
me@ubuntu:/$ sudo blkid
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Mount NTFS partition with write access for everyone
How can I mount a NTFS partition so that all user accounts on my machine have write access? My mount options are
nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,nobootwait,uid=1000,gid=1002,fmask=113,dmask=002
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Ubuntu 12.04: Problem editing file in recovery mode using the shell
I'm pretty new to ubuntu/linux and I guess I messed up my /etc/fstab file. Ubuntu (12.04) won't boot anymore. I've found some tips on the internet on how to fix this, but I didn't manage to get them ...
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fstab. allow 2 users mount NTFS with passwd. Deny other users. possible?
i've seen this answer, but it requires the partition to always be mounted (and do the user access via group perms on the root FS that mounted the NTFS)
What i'm hopping to be possible, is to allow ...
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Most suitable permissions for mounted internal disk shared with Windows?
I've been using Ubuntu/Linux for a few years now but I'm still learning..
I've just updated to 12.10 after installing a Samsung 830 128GB SSD which has Windows and Ubuntu OS's dualboot on it. My old ...
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How could I mount an ext4 partition and have write permission?
I've set the /etc/fstab file so that I can mount an ext4 partition on startup and I did it with the following options : rw, auto, nouser, exec, sync.
The problem is that I can't create or delete any ...
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How does a device get mounted via the Unity Launcher
When I click on a hard drive in the launcher, how does it know what parameters to apply to the mounted unit since the device is not shown or added in /etc/fstab. How can I add additional parameters to ...
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Configuring mongo DB to work with NTFS drive
I have 120 GB SSD Drive with two partitions (NTFS with Windows and ext4 with Ubintu) and 2TB NTFS HDD shared between Windows and Ubuntu.
I configured my HDD to be properly mounted on system boot:
# ...
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Mount USB drive with write permissions for everyone or specific user
I know there are similar questions but I get some specific problem I can't overcome.
I have:
HDD split into two partitions. /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2. sdb1 is NTFS and I don't need it. I need sdb2 ...
