Questions about mounting filesystems. (Examples include a CD, a DVD, an external hard drive and a USB thumbdrive.)
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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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Need help with volumes
So it's my first time using ubuntu,(been using windows since 2001) and i have very limited knowledge about linux. I must admit everything works like a charm except one thing which bothers me a lot!. ...
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Errors with installation of Matlab R2012b from an ISO file
after some tentative to install Matlab R2012b I face this error
when I try to install it after mounting by Furius ISO Mounting application,
the installer does not get executed even though I try to run ...
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Automount NTFS drives before startup applications
Before I start, I just what to point out that I know how to automount an NTFS drive.
My problem is that my dropbox folder is on one of the ntfs drivers that I automounted... When ubuntu starts up, it ...
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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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Read-only NFS share not updating
I have a large storage device with about 6 different shares all mounted to a server running Ubuntu 12.04. The storage device takes regular checkpoints each day. I have the shares mounted as read-only ...
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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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ERROR MOUNTING need help
I've got this error and I can't access my files located in a different partition when I'm using Ubuntu but when I'm using Windows8 my files are accessible. I'm using Ubuntu as my main OS. I tried ...
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Mounting a directory
I have a directory in the /dev dir called media/windows. I need to mount the /windows directory to a ntfs file system partition in /dev called sbd1. I have tried mount /dev/media/windows /dev/sdb1 and ...
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Internal hdd auto-mounted for another user
I'm running ubuntu 13.04, the system is hosted in one hdd. I've recently added a secondary hdd.
Everything is auto-mounted with the Disks GUI tool of ubuntu. It works for my session as main user of ...
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Mount a USB drive as a dvd drive
Actually I want to boot from my usb in virtualbox, i am trying many ways with out any success. Is there a way to mount a usb as a virtual dvd drive so that virtualbox can detect it and boot from it ?
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stop pam_mount from issueing forceuid and forcegid (samba)
I got a problem mounting a samba share with /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml.
Client OS: Ubuntu 12.10 x64
When I manually mount it access right information (user/group/other) are displayed correctly ...
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not able to mount drives ubuntu 13.04 [closed]
Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /media/kushal/4A4AFAE24AFAC9A9: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sda1" ...
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How to mount image.iso and create an option in Grub to install?
Every now and then new versions of os are released. I want to try them out but what I don't want to have to burn a new CD/DVD or create a bootable USB, every time.
I don't want to use usb or cd/dvd.
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Permissions of mounted cifs share (Shared from FreeNAS)
I have a FreeNAS installation running under VirtualBox. When I try to mount one of my FreeNAS shares in Ubuntu 12.10, permissions on the share prevent me from entering the directory, listing or ...
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How to setup NFS on 13.04 and 12.10
I used my 12.10 as my NFS server.
And the 13.04 as the client.
After installing NFS to both of my laptops
I added this in /etc/exports
/export ...
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ubuntu 12.04-2 desktop not recognized/
I get the messages: ubuntu 12.04.2 desktop not recognized
and ubuntu 12.04.2 no mountable file systems.
MacBook Pro 5.1, Intel core 2 Duo, OSX 10-6.8
If anyone can tell me what the problem is, & ...
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How to mount a cd image for installing a program in Wine (beside using CDemu)? [duplicate]
I usually use AcetoneISO to mount a cd image.
I want to install in Wine a program that needs a cd in the drive but on a laptop that I use without a cdrom drive.
Normally the program would recognize ...
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Trouble with mounting usb hdd on ubuntu server
The hard disk had previously been the primary hdd for this computer. The only OS ever installed was ubuntu server, without encryption or LVM. My intention is to only keep the files that were on ...
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USB hard disk and USB flash drive keep unmounting and remounting
I wanted to backup some files on my external hard disk and just barely managed to do so, because it randomly unmounted and mounted again. My first thought was that the hard disk's life is about to ...
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Mount Ruby on Rails application from OS X for RSpec test runs
My main devel machine is an OS X notebook. Additionally I have a PC notebook running Ubuntu 12.04 from a USB drive (cannot use the internal harddisk). Also I have several Ruby on Rails projects being ...
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Can't share zfs filesystem over nfs
Ubuntu Server 13.04. Client OpenElec 3.02
trying to share thru built-in into zfs sharenfs
server (192.168.1.56)
administrator@ubuntu:~$ sudo zfs get all | grep share
[sudo] password for ...
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external USB drive via VirtualBox says it's busy
When I try to access an external USB flash drive with my running Ubuntu in Virtualbox, by going to the Devices -> USB section in the Virtualbox menu, it complains that the device is busy with a ...
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Mounting a pendrive as a swap partition, having problems
The building of one of the softwares I am installing is failing because of the error
c++: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus)
I think this is because I have only 500Mb swap ...
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Connect to remote drive (University computer)
To connect to my university drive, the instructions on their website say:
Open a terminal
Type the following, to mount your P: drive to /mnt:
mount -t cifs -o ...
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cannot mount my external hard drive anymore
I do not what happened, but i can not anymore automount my hard drive. It contains a vital data for me and have no whish losing it. Any help is very much appreciated
i was trying to copy somes files ...
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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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Ubuntu on Android doesn't mount second with try
Because I'm not sure that it is version problem , re posted without Version (Ubuntu on Android doesn't mount second time).
I added Ubuntu on my Android phone (HTC One X clone) using this manual ...
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Ubuntu on Android doesn't mount second time
I added Ubuntu 11.04 on my Android phone (HTC One X clone) using this manual (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1872752) , and it installed and mounted .
On Ubuntu I installed sshd and ...
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Unable to mount Iomega HDD
Need help to read files off of an external hard drive.
Unable to mount Iomega HDD
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/justin/Iomega HDD:
Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o ...
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Cannot SSHFS mount user home directory
I am attempting to setup a centralized home-directory server through sshfs and pam-mount.
Currently I am stuck at this point:
When attempting to mount the remote home directory sshfs just gets ...
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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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USB External Hard drive unplugged but still shows up!
I am running on Ubuntu 12.04. I have physically unplugged an external hard drive from my laptop, but for some reason it is still shown as mounted in Nautilus. When trying to get rid of it by ...
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“Invalid argument” when trying to mount my USB
On Ubuntu, I'm trying to mount my USB
[] dmesg
... USB Mass Storage support registered.
... scsi 2:0:0:0 Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 2.0
... sd 2:0:0:0 [sdb] 15679488 512-byte logical blocks: ...
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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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USB mount nightmare on 12.04
I'm not that familiar with ubuntu and I know there are plenty of posts on this issue, but noone on my capabilities to understand what to do. USB auto mounting of flash drive and photocamera (Nikon and ...
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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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ZFS mount hangs
Can someone help me with ZFS on 12.04. I have imported the pool but it won't mount the datasets. When I try any commands concerning ZFS or zpool the console just sits there. I have gotten it to work 1 ...
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Problem to enter in NTFS partition
Sorry if this question is already solved.
I was change my Operative System. (Windows to LInux Ubuntu 13.04). I have 2 partitions 1:C(system) and 2:M (It's NTFS, there I have any information, music, ...
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Permission denied error on WebDAV mount for two identical users
I have a (webdav share mounted as:
server owncloud_folder davfs defaults,uid=fsi,gid=fsi,dir_mode=2775,file_mode=664 0 0
There are two users with the following gid/uids:
uid=1049(tobias) ...
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Rockbox not detecting ipod mount
The rockbox utility isn't detecting my ipod in the "select your device in the filesystem" drop down list.
The ipod is detected with other programs.
Any ideas?
Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit.
Ipod 5g 80gb.
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Unable to mount secondary hard drive
I have fresh installation of ubuntu (64bit). And now I have realized, that I am unable to mount any partition of my secondary hard drive. I'm getting this error:
Error mounting /dev/sdb2 at ...
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How do I upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 13.04 with an .ISO image?
I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my system. I want to upgrade it to Ubuntu 13.04. I want to do this upgrade using an .ISO image of Ubuntu 13.04 and without a USB drive.
I tried How to upgrade Ubuntu ...
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Auto-completion does not work with sudo mount
I'm using 12.04.2 and auto-completion for mount does not work with sudo. If I don't use sudo auto-completion works as expected:
$ mount --bind -t devpts /dev/<press tab>
block/ char/ ...
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An error occurred while mounting ext3
I was trying to install Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition. When I reboot computer I am getting this message "An error occurred while mounting ext3".
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 mounts iPhone disk spaces and after a while unmounts them
iPhone 4, iOS 6.1.3, Ubuntu 13.04
On 12.10 and before, I could mount my iPhone without problems. Ubuntu mounted automagically two "shares", "iPhone" and "Documents on iPhone", and you can access your ...
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Don't automatically open the folder of mounted devices
I usually charge my phone through a USB connection. Due to Ubuntu 13.04 detecting and mounting it, Nautlius automatically opens the mounted folder. Can I stop Nautlius from automatically opening the ...
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Filesystem check or mount failed
I'm using latest Kubuntu ( kernel 3.8.0.19). For some reason I got this when I restarted my PC
Filesystem check or mount failed. A maintenance shell will now be
started. CONTROL - D will ...
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“Disk I/O error:” Can not write anything to mounted partitions
Recently I have lot of DISK I/O Errors. I am not able to save anything even on my home partition. I have the same problems in 12.04, 12.10 and now in 13.04.
Following is the output of mtab
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