Questions about mounting filesystems. (Examples include a CD, a DVD, an external hard drive and a USB thumbdrive.)
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Ubuntu 12.10 doesn't load after grub
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Lenovo Thinkpad SL-510. The computer has been working for several weeks now with no problems.
Today when I turned the computer on I got a blank purple screen. ...
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How to mount Apple Core Storage partition
So I wiped my Mac Mini (OS X Lion) and replaced the OS with Ubuntu 12.04.2. So far so good, it works beautifully. But I'd like to still access the external backup drive's Time Machine contents. The ...
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can't mount internal hdd in ubuntu 8.10 [closed]
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0,0) Failed to mount'/dev/sda1':Operation not supported Mount is denied becouse NTFS is marked to be in use.
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Ubuntu can't boot after a “/tmp not ready” showed during upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10
As soon as I finished installing ubuntu 12.04.2, I upgrade it to 12.10 immediately. During reboot, a message showed up said "/tmp is not ready... press s to skip....". The ellipses mean some words I ...
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Mysterious Unattached Drive
I don't know if this has happened to anyone else before, but I've googled everything I could about it and got nowhere. So, I'm posting here.
Um, as long as I've used Ubuntu, I'm still pretty basic ...
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cifs filesystem not found on mount [duplicate]
I'm trying to mount a Windows 7 in 12.10, but it doesn't seem to have cifs working. I've installed smbfs, winbind, and cifs-utils. If i run:
sudo mount -t cifs //servername/shareName /mnt/point
I ...
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gvfs-mtp stopped working Ubuntu 12.10 after update
Gvfs-mtp recently stopped working mounting my nexus 4 and nexus 7 following an Ubuntu GVFS update. The devices will connect in PTP mode but not MTP... Help? Ubuntu 12.10
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Secondary Storage not properly mounted
Not all of my secondary discs partitions are visible.When i open it from GParted it shows NTFS signature missing.Is there any way to fix this without lossing any data??
This drive(secondary) has 4 ...
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messed up with mount and naming a partition - delete a folder in file system
I have a partition /dev/sda8 which I want to name it "Documents" and automount.
Because I have a long time to use these commands ,I messed up a little (not that I am familiar).
I used gparted and ...
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Is there a program to mount my all of my drives automatically?
Sometimes when I restart my computer my drives will mount but sometimes they won't (like right now when I'm typing this question out). Is there an easy way like a program that can mount them for me? ...
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Error message: unable to mount location Ubuntu 12.10
When trying to open the internal hard drive, the error message:
unable to mount location, can't mount file appears.
Note: Ubuntu was installed over windows
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Can't mount large external large disk(3TB) on ubuntu server 12.10
When I connect with e-sata or usb for external disk, the display shows the following message:
[534.032718] ata3: exception Emask 0x10 ASct 0x0 Serr 0x5840000 action 0xe frozen [534.033063] ata3: ...
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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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Unable to mount volume - operation not supported [duplicate]
I've just installed Ubuntu to my USB drive and the GUI comes up beautifully.
But if I click on any of my devices I get the error:
Unable to mount xxxx Volume
Adding read ACL for uid 999 to ...
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Issue with Multiple DVD writers in ubuntu 12.10
I have an issue with DVD drives. I've installed more than 2 DVD drives on the PC, but I am unable to mounting those drive.
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Mount a Win8 Phone as Share on Ubuntu 12.10
I'm trying to mount a Nokia 620 phone running Win8 on my Ubuntu 12.10 box. I can see the device using lsusb, but from what I can see it's not listed under sudo blkid. I'm trying to follow the ...
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CLI mounting vs. GUI mounting
On Ubuntu 12.10, when I want to mount a hard drive, I can just click on the unmounted drive and everything works fine (by mounting to /media/username/partitionlabel).
Basically, I would like to do ...
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How do I unlock a microsd card?
I have a locked microSD (locked by Nokia symbian phone), I forgot the password, how do I unlock it? I don't mind if I lost my data in microSD. I can't mount it.
Output of mkdir ~/sd_mount ...
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access windows file system problem [duplicate]
i'm using ubuntu 12.10 and its a dual boot.till yesterday i'v access windows through ubuntu.but today when i try to access windows through ubuntu it shows error message. here it is,
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How do I solve a “An error occured while mounting /sys/bus/usb/drivers.” error?
I have got this message during the startup ubuntu 12.04:
An error occured while mounting /sys/bus/usb/drivers.
Press S to skip mounting... and so on...
Any help will be appreciated!
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Problem installing 12.04 in efi mode
Edit:
I was told that my question was confusing and couldn't be understood. I'm completely rewriting it so it will make sense. Same question, just rewiting it.
Here it is...
-> I'm installing a 64 ...
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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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SSD drive not mounting on Ubuntu
I have a Corsair SSD drive, but when I navigate to by going to go, then computer, and clicking on the drive, I am giving the message unable to mount location: cant mount file.
I can download items ...
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How to find internal hard drive when booting from USB?
Trying to rescue a friend's computer. Put Ubuntu 12.10 on a Flash drive, changed the boot order, and fired it up; no problem. But now that I'm in, I can't seem to find the internal drive!
Any ...
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How to mount/format iPod Classic that stopped being accessible after an interrupted Banshee sync?
I am running 12.04 LTS and I have an iPod classic. I had it repaired with a non-Apple store. It was at first detected by my machine running Banshee and syncing was in progress. However, due to some ...
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How to let ubuntu ignore a internal hard-drive when start up?
I am dual-booting Ubuntu(12.10) and Windows on different hard drives in my laptop.
For battery life and noise issue, it is possible for me to ignore the Windows drive and prevent it from being ...
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Mount fat32 partition with 777 permissions
I know, this question is asked a lot of times. Just searched for several hours, but nothing i did worked.
The thing i want to do is setup a little NAS. As a test i took a memory stick to serve as ...
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mount a disk where Windows is hibernated
Hi there I want to access the disk where I have windows installed, but I got this error message:
Unable to mount 123 GB Volume
Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/aimad/4E2E4F0C2E4EEC91:
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Mount hfs+ partion
I want to mount a hfs+ partion on an external drive. I have installed hfsprogs and created a folder to mount at /media/hfs. Nevertheless this
# sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb2 /media/hfs
mount: ...
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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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How to mount a CIFS share so it doesn't warn about external file modifications
This is the current fstab entry for the mount.
//qnap/share /data cifs noauto,user,username=qnap,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
This works fine and most of the time without any problems.
However when ...
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mount two hard drives on start up
I have two hard-drives (one internal and one external) that I want to mount on start up (ntfs, but it doesn’t matter).
I can mount them fine with the "Disk Utility" aplication and I can mount them ...
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Copying from mount share drive to local folder through script
This is my first time trying to work with Linux Scripts so this may be something obvious.
Here is what I am trying to do:
Remove all contents from local folder - rm /home/user/Documents/Exercise/
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How to solve the mounting external error?
I am using Ubuntu 12.10. I have got some problem while trying to to mount my external hard drive.
I have got this message
Adding read ACL for uid 1000 to `/media/monghsei' failed: Operation not ...
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How to temporarily mount a hard drive partition as read-only using Nautilus?
I hibernated Windows 7, then booted Ubuntu. When I tried to mount the Windows partition, I got this error:
I'd just read that switching OSes via hibernating was OK as long as you didn't modify files ...
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Make the mounted partition open in a new tab in nautilus
When I insert my USB flash drive or my external hard drive, nautilus opens it in a new window. This gets a little irritating if there are a number of partitions in the hard-drive as it opens all of ...
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What do I do when my root filesystem is full?
My / folder is reading as full and I can't update software or do anything.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong here.
$ df -h
Results:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ...
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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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Unable to Mount location, Ubuntu on Windows 7 virtual machine
I have installed Ubuntu on windows 7 VM. On installation I have assigned space from my drive to Ubuntu. Now I can see icon in ubuntu 161GB Hard Disk but when I click on it it shows message 'Unable to ...
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USB flash is not mounted
I have a transcend USB flash 16gb which does not mount anymore in Ubuntu. fsck prints the following output, do you have any clue what could it be?
fsck -y /dev/sdb
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck ...
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How to give priority to auto-mount on boot in Ubuntu 12.10?
One of those things that I like in Ubuntu 12.10, is that for some reason my ntfs partition is automatically mounted on boot, without having to use some application like ntfs-config.
However, it's not ...
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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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mount an [IPADDRESS]/dir on 12.04 in terminal
This is probably a super simple question, but googles failing me.
In windows, I can map a network drive, and point it to "\10.10.0.28\sample_folder" and it works just fine. On my Ubuntu machine, I ...
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Why am I unable to mount my cd/dvd drives?
Sorry to ask this question which has been asked by dozens of other people, but it seems that though the symptoms may be the same, most people have different issues. I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Acer ...
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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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How to access/test/do anything with my usb pendrive (USB mass storage)?
The USB pendrive (flash) worked fine, but now it can't be mounted in Linux/Windows. In Linux it is recognized only as:
dmesg|tail
[28548.831178] usb 2-1.5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd ...
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encrypted home directory not mounting after log off
I am having issue with my encrypted ecryptfs home directory after I log out and log back in.
The home directory won't auto mount and I tried to execute "ecryptfs-mount-private" manually and it does ...
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Trying to Mount a Hardware Raid 1 HDD attached usng a usb enclosure
Computer issues need to access data on RAID 1 WD 250 GB HDD. trying to mount drive using usb enclosure but it not working.
Asus P4c800-e Motherboard with hardware Raid.
what do I need to do.
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can't mount after partial update on 12.04 LTS
I recently got Ubuntu 12.04 LTS , I had a problem with the shell theme so I looked around
this site and put in the following command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/testing
sudo apt-get install ...
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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 ...
