Questions tagged [mount]
Questions about mounting filesystems, such as those on internal drives or on CDs, DVDs, external hard drives or USB flash drives, or about using the `mount` command.
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Samba share on external drive delays SSH logins
I have a Ubuntu Server 18.04 as well as a NAS on my network. The drives on the NAS are configured to stop spinning after a bit of idle time; they take a noticeable time to start up when needed. That ...
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Multiple Hard disks raid 1 adding space?
I'm a total noob to Ubuntu. So much so, I'm not even sure how to ask the question. Best to describe the situation I guess. I have an Ubuntu server 16.04LTS set up with 2 hard drives 1 500Gb 1 250Gb. I ...
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Mount win share access after 18.04 update in mate
I am a very new user and not at all familiar with any of the commands. I have searched and tried cutting and pasting many of the directions to link access to my win computer where many of my files ...
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Mount device as RW for root and RO for everyone else
I have a device I want to mount for root with full permissions and for everyone else as readonly. The man page tells me this is possible.
So:
sudo mkdir /mnt/foo
sudo mkdir /mnt/fooReadOnly
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Can I test a cue/bin image without burning a CD?
Can I test an audio CD created with Brasero (cue/bin files) in Ubuntu 16.04 without burning a CD? I would like to check that titles and other metadata are correct on the image.
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chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory
To fix grub, I tried following codes:
sudo mount /dev/sd6 /mnt
sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
sudo mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts
sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
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Cannot mount SD card
I have Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit and I have used a new 16GB SD card for a couple of weeks that suddenly is not recognizable anymore. When doing sudo fdisk -l and then sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1/ /media/...
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canonical-livepatch cannot perform operation: mount
I'm trying to enable canonical-livepatch on ubuntu server 16.04
sudo snap install canonical-livepatch
canonical-livepatch 7.24 from 'canonical' installed
sudo canonical-livepatch enable my_TOKEN_here
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allow user to mount synology nfs share without sudo
Is there a way to allow non-root, non-sudo users to mount synology NFS shares as themselves (not sudo)? I want to allow users to mount their own shares and benefit from the increased performance of ...
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Hard Drive Already Decrypted
I have my system set up to auto-mount my encrypted backup hard drive (set up through the Disks utility).
However, whenever I plug in my drive or boot up my system, I often receive a message like this,...
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How to choose a specific FileSystem to work on?
I've an EC2 instance running, here's version:
LSB_VERSION=base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
NAME="Amazon Linux AMI"
VERSION="2017.03"...
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Error when getting information for file - Input/output error
I ran rsync sudo rsync -aE --progress /mnt/seagate/dataset/RD\ 8* /mnt/backUp/backUp/dataset/ and pressed ctrl-c by mistake. There was a SIG-INT error whic makes sense.
But now, I am not able to ...
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Not able to see Galaxy A5 device as mounted - MTP fail?
My Galaxy A5 (2017) is not mounting automatically although it appears to be recognized properly (see dmesg) and it is set for MTP transfer:
[ 1799.793224] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, device number 3
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use systemd to mount sshfs
I am running Ubuntu Core on my Raspberry Pi and I would like to map a drive connected to a local server.
On other devices I use the sshfs to map this drive locally and it works.
However on Ubuntu ...
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Cannot read file on filesystem mounted through fstab sshfs
I am trying to ensure that certain files in a mounted filesystem are readable to at least one non-root user. However, at the moment, even root user is not able to read these files. Here is my ...
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You do not have permissions necessary to view the contents
Every time I plug in a USB drive on Ubuntu 16, it mounts it, but when I try to view contents in Nautilus, I get the error:
You do not have permissions necessary to view the contents of "<USB Mount ...
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How to unmount an ecryptfs .Private directory mounted at /tmp?
Say that I want to view the contents of an encrypted home directory, I can simply use "sudo ecryptfs-recover-private " and it will mount an unencrypted copy at /tmp. That's all fine and good, but how ...
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Is there an overlay file system doing a copy-up on read?
What I‘m looking for is a mixture of an overlaying file system like overlayfs or aufs that does a copy-up on read access. Or, from the other side, a service like unison that sync only files that have ...
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Mounting samba folder from a Samba server 1.9 in Ubuntu 16.4LTS
I have just bought a router ZTE F680 that is using a Samba server 1.9. I want to share a usb hard disk using the SMB protocol.
In the router, the disk is correct attached and the path is:
/mnt/...
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ExFAT USB drive not listed in /dev/sd
I've got an ExFAT USB3 drive that my Ubuntu laptop seemed to recognise, but no longer does. I've read a few posts to try getting relevant/diagnostic information, but to no avail. Any further advice ...
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mount command hangs when share is unavailable
So we are using a combination of samba, winbind and pam_mount to authenticate users from AD and mount network share individually and everything works fine except for when a share is unavailable.
In ...
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Normal boot hangs on "Scanning for BTRFS files systems" after conversion from ext4
I have a headless server with an installation of Ubuntu 16.04. The default installation comes with an ext4 file system and reinstalling it from scratch is not possible, but I need the snapshot and ...
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Ubuntu boots to “Read Only Filesystem” after Upgrading from 16.04 > 16.10
After upgrading from 16.04 to 16.10 I am running into some trouble.
My situation is I have 2 harddrives and several partitions on each.
drive0
Kubuntu 16.10
Windows7
drive1
Kubuntu 16.04
The ...
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Able to mount but not able to view the contents of LUKS-encrypted flash drives
I've formatted multiple flash drives on multiple computers using the Gnome Disk Utility on Ubuntu 16.04, each with a Ext4/LUKS partition. All is fine on the machine used to format them, but I'm unable ...
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ZFS cache on same drive (different partition) as /?
Since upgrading to 16.04 I've moved my /home to a zfs-pool to familiarise myself with zfs.
Already showing its strength it has identified the poor quality of my long running drives:
# zpool status -...
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Cannot mount a RAID1 array
I installed Ubuntu server 16 (Linux version 4.4.0-38-generic (buildd@lgw01-58) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) )) and chose to set up a RAID1 at installation using three ...
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Xenial 16.04.1 LTS root filesystem mounted read only
I recently upgraded my physical server from 14.04.4 upstart based system to 16.04.1 systemd based system and find the root filesystem mounted as read only after booting. dmesg reveals what looks to me ...
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Trouble with USB Permissions/Ownership
I'm trying to use a USB drive (FAT32) on my laptop running Ubuntu 14.04, but the permissions are messed up and I don't understand them well enough to fix it.
Running ls -l in /mnt shows
drwxrwxrwx ...
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Cannot mount MTP Android device after rooting?
I managed to install TWRP Recovery image twrp-3.0.2-0-vegetahd.img on an Aquaris E5 phone with stock Android; thereby having a rooted device.
Out of the box, the stock Android allowed USB connection ...
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External hard drive not detected after first boot : Xubuntu 14.04
I have the following problem and hope to find help by someone.
On the first boot of my Intel NUC after a longer period of time (for example, over night) Xubuntu won't mount nor detect (blkid) my ...
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Unable to mount Iphone 5s
How do I mount Iphone 5S in my 14.04 ?
I have executed
sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-utils ifuse
idevicepair unpair && idevicepair pair
as mentioned in http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/...
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Get error(115) trying to mount a Windows filesystem from Ubuntu
Ubuntu 14.04LTS server, I have no GUI desktop
In my example I'll use a fake IP address.
Trying to mount from Ubuntu to \1.2.3.4\users\me\subdir. Someone has to put a spreadsheet file on the \1.2.3.4\...
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How to mount an Android Device on i3?
I am using i3 windows manager on Ubuntu 14.04. When I do lsusb I see:
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-I9300 Phone [Galaxy S III], GT-...
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Automouting NFS share inside NAT'd LXC container fails
I have 2x Ubuntu 14.04 LXC setups
One is on bare metal hardware and containers are assigned IP adresses directly from the network
The other one is on an ESXi virtual machine and using NAT via the ...
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ALERT! /dev/mapper/xxxxx does not exist. Dropping to a shell
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 on vmware. I can't login to Ubuntu.
i'm in a situation similar to the one described in this post ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxxxxx does not exist. Dropping to a shell
I ...
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Setting up gvfsd to specify options when autolaunching gvfsd-fuse
According to http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/utopic/man1/gvfsd.1.html gvfsd automatically launches gvfsd-fuse (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/utopic/man1/gvfsd-fuse.1.html)
I want to know ...
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whats going on with fdisk?
I was trying to find the device mount point of my smart phone, when I ran sudo fdisk -l and saw something more curious.
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Disk /dev/ram14: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of ...
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unable to mount Discovery Kids Camera
Trying to mount an older Discovery Kids Camera to a laptop running 14.04. Device shows up in lsusb.
~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:b35f Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:...
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USB HDDs are failing with xHCI error. Requiring restart
I have 2 hard drives connected with SATA-to-USB tool. Usually they work fine however some time to time they fail and they don't show up on Disks neither I can see the connection on dmesg. dmesg output ...
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CIFS FSTAB won't start at boot and mount -a doesn't work as expected
I am having a odd issues my CIFS drive. It won't mount at boot and also when the system has booted, I have tried again with mount -a but no success. It will however mount with the mount -t command and ...
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USB 3.0 harddrive disconnecting
The external harddrive works under usb 2.0, but in usb 3.0 it mounts for a few seconds and then unmounts. I don't think it a problem with the drive because it works fine on usb 2.0.
dmesg reports ...
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Is FSCK on boot disabled in 14.04.2?
I have a few different installations of 14.04 server, all 32 bit, mostly kept updated, so I feel confident to say that they're at 14.04.2. One server is on a clients site, and doesn't get updated as ...
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HDD exfat partition will not mount
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 dual booted with windows 7 (on separate SSDs) and just stored all of my music on my 1.5 TB HDD (which is formatted as an exfat partition). Everything was working fine for a ...
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root file system mounts as read only after some time
My root (/) file system get remounted as read only after the system has been up for some time. This seems to vary from 3 hours to 48 hours. This system is running Ubuntu desktop 14.04. Its primary ...
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ecryptfs ecryptfs-add-passphrase and mount issues
I'm using ecryptfs for a folder not within my home directory. The authentication is passphrase only. If I mount the folder with the ecryptfs mount-helper all is working fine.
If I then unmount the ...
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ubuntu 14.04.1 mounts /dev/sda1 and asks to unmount while partitioning
We have been making custom made initrd.gz generated through debian-installer for 10.04 and 12.04 ubuntu.
We have been partitioning the disk and have made it automated completely and ask user to ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS scripts in /if-up.d not executed
Since this morning have been trying to achieve something:
System:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Network-Manager is not installed
Goal:
Every time, the eth0 network interface is started (if-up.d) we want to ...
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How to get Nautilus and Launcher to show drives mounted in non-standard folder
If I mount a drive in /media or somewhere in my home folder, it automatically shows in both Nautilus (under Devices in its side bar) and on the Launcher.
However, if I mount the drive in ${...
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extundelete - failed to read-only open device "/dev/sdb": Error code 2133571347
I have a Synology NAS with a RAID 1 setup on which I recently accidentally deleted a shared folder with data I want back. I shut down the NAS and booted into a machine with an Ubuntu Live Cd and ...
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Mounting WD external hard drive mybook
UPDATE:
When I put in dmesg after plugging the external hd in, the output is the following (last lines):
[15233.307914] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[...