The file fstab contains descriptive information about the various file systems.
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How to mount NTFS drive at startup [duplicate]
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How to automount NTFS partitions?
I'm not even sure if this is the right question, but basically I have a partition with Windows 7 on it (named Acer in my Ubuntu places ...
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Correct way of mounting a Windows share
I mounted a Windows share to my Ubuntu 11.10 system via adding the following line to the /etc/fstab:
//serveraddr/sharedfolder /mnt/foldername/ smbfs credentials=/home/myname/.smbpasswd 0 0
using ...
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Proper fstab entry to mount a samba share on boot?
I am a little confused on the proper fstab entry for a samba share in Ubuntu 12.04
I can get the drive to mount manually by using:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.2.2/raid_drive /mnt/homeserver -o ...
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Adding a new swap file. How to edit fstab to enable swap after reboot?
I've deleted my existing swap partition due to some partitioning problem. I don't have a swap space now so I've created a swap file with:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/myswapfile bs=1M count=1024
Here's ...
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How do I give multiple users access to a Windows NTFS partition?
I have USB hard-drive connected to my Ubuntu (11.04) machine. Every time I reboot the computer and login it mounts the hard-drive. Since the disk has NTFS on it, Linux assigns some user to be the ...
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How do I avoid the “S to Skip” message on boot?
After upgrading my laptop from karmic to lucid, my fat32 partition won't mount automatically. I get the message:
The disk drive for /osshare is not ready yet or not present
Continue to wait; or Press ...
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Repairing the FSTAB
I recently changed my /home to another partition and after it caused problems (I had it formatted as NTFS) I wish to change it back to it's original location. I changed the FSTAB listing for /home to ...
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How to create RAM drive?
How do i create RAM drive under ubuntu. And would he automounted at startup?
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How to mount a new drive on startup
I have recently installed a new hard drive to my Ubuntu 10.0.4 box. I used System -> Administration -> Disk Utils to format the disk (ext4 file type) - but did not create a partition (is this ...
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Why does Ubuntu refuse to execute files from an NTFS partition?
I mount an NTFS partition (where I've got some Linux binaries and scripts alongside with Win32 and data files) with the following fstab line:
/dev/sda5 /mnt/dat ntfs-3g ...
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Permission denied on SSHFS automount
I am trying to set up an SSHFS connection between two Ubuntu machines, using /etc/fstab so that they automount from the beginning.
I have created an .ssh directory in my home dir on both machines, I ...
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How to make hdd's mount at startup in ubuntu 12.04
How do you make HDDs and partitions mount at startup with the ubuntu system?
I always keep my media and data files on separate partitions - one 2tb HDD and a 400 odd gig partition. I have been ...
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Ubuntu took away permissions from my Data partition
The pangolin has struck again. The bug of the day for today is Ubuntu taking away my permissions on my Data partition (NTFS). One moment everything worked fine, the next moment I couldn't chmod ...
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How can I specify the order in which filesystems are automatically mounted?
I need a particular row in /etc/fstab to be mounted always after two other rows:
# Always mount these first
UUID=fdf38dd4-9e9d-479d-b830-2a6989958503 / ext4 noatime,discard,errors=remount-ro 0 1
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Trash on NTFS for multiple users: Why does Dolphin succeed where Nautilus fails?
I am trying to set up the ability for multiple users to use the Trash on a NTFS drive.
The main solution proposed on the forums consists into enabling a single user to use the Trash. That is made by ...
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How to move boot and root partitions to another drive
I have two drives on my computer that have the following configuration:
Drive 1: 160GB, /home
Drive 2: 40GB, /boot and /
Unfortunately, drive 2 seems to be dying, because trying to write to it is ...
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What's the easiest way to mount Windows share as a local folder in home directory?
Via Gnome Nautilus I can easily mount Samba shares from my Ubuntu Server. However, these "mounts" are kinda of fake. Many applications I run do not recognize that Gnome has mounted these server ...
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Mounting a USB disk in a permanent location
I have a USB hard disk that I want to mount on boot and in a specific location. How can I make that drive mount and stay available (say for local backups, etc.) even though no one's logged in?
It ...
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Mount an external drive at boot time only if it is plugged in
I've got an entry for an external harddrive in my fstab:
UUID="680C0FE30C0FAAE0" /jgdata ntfs noatime,rw
But sometimes this drive isn't plugged in at boot time. This leaves me half way ...
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Problems mounting an SMB share in my fstab
I have a valid, reachable SMB share on my Windows box, which I can mount with
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.9/C /mnt/WinC -o username=foo,password=bar
but isn't mountable from my fstab. The ...
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Can I change the /home folder after ubuntu installation?
I had installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a clear 40gb hd, but now i have a 100gb partition that i want to use as a /home folder, is there a problem to simple use fstab to change the mounting point?
I'm ...
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How do I correctly mount a NTFS partition in /etc/fstab?
After a nasty episode (my second, you'd think I'd learn) caused by unsupervised automated podcast downloads filling my entire partition, I've finally moved just ~/Music to its own partition. The ...
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Howto auto-mount windows-partitions using /etc/fstab
Hello what do I have to write in the file "/etc/fstab" to get my windows-partition (/dev/sda3) automatically mounted on startup ?
I get this error-message (clicking on the bookmark for the partition ...
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Automount ext4 partition with user permission/ownership (fstab?)
I just installed Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" on my Acer Aspire One D257, creating the partitions:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 15G 2.1G 12G 15% /
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How to write an fstab line for full access to an NTFS drive?
I've written:
/dev/sda2 /win ntfs-3g rw,dev,exec,auto,async,users,umask=777,uid=1000,gid=1000,locale=en_US.utf8, errors=remount-ro 0 0
but I still can't access /win as a user (corresponding to ...
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how to recover from mounting /usr/ nosuid
I was able to move /usrto an external harddrive. In fstab I mistakenly mounted the drive with nosuid. Now I can't use sudo or su. I can't edit the fstab entry. When I manage to open it I can't do so ...
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If I create or modify any file or directory with sudo then I can only manipulate it with sudo
The general issue is that if I create or modify any file or directory with sudo then it seems that I'm unable to create and modify this file or directory further as any other user than sudo. The rest ...
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Auto-mounts ntfs drives in Read-Only Mode
I installed pysdm through this article to auto-mount my ntfs partitions.
My drive structure looks like this:
jatin@jatin-ubuntu:/media$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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How to layout the filesystem for a small SSD and a big HDD?
Since I don't use my laptop's CD-drive I want to put a small (8 GB) SSD into the CD-drive slot (I'll use a caddy similar to this one). I want to use compressed btrfs on the SSD and put all the data on ...
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Why isn't discard automatic for SSDs?
I was surprised to find that the discard option still isn't added automatically to my fstab, even though I have an SSD. Thus I have to follow these instructions to add it.
Why doesn't the installer ...
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fstab folder bind on partition mounted with defaults parameter
I want bind some folders in my Home directory with some folders in a NTFS partition. Will mounting the NTFS partition with only the defaults parameter affect my read/write access?
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What file resets fstab on persistent live environments?
I'm trying to add lines to my /etc/fstab file.
but the lines I add get cleared on reboot because I am using a persistent live USB stick.
I don't want a lecture. I just want to know which file writes ...
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Fstab for GoFlex Home 2tb NAS
I have the above functioning ok using the usb print server, however, I cannot get the drives to mount in the fstab. using 192.168.0.x net with dlink router. I can moount using the GUI in Gnome but ...
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smbfs/cifs won't mount
This fstab has worked for 4 ubuntu versions. All of the sudden, it doesn't work after a reboot, but I had it working under 12.04 yesterday. It still works on another 12.04 machine with no problems.
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Mounting /dev/sdd1 fails: according to mtab, /dev/sdd1 is already mounted
Trying to mount drive but get an error
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdd1 is already mounted on /
mount failed
According to ...
