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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How to get openconnect to unmount a partition when VPN closes?
I have this entry in my fstab:
sc-netapp48.nvidia.com:/vol/scratch9/scratch.securesign_new /home/scratch.securesign_new nfs _netdev,comment=systemd.automount 0 0
I'm not sure how this works exactly, ...
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Trying to mount a partition at installation
So I'm trying to mount a partition that i used as storage when i was using windows, and I'm not sure what option to choose on the "Use as" tab, some of the options are enabling "format ...
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Mount a former MDADM RAID1 partition to backup data - Ubuntu 19.10
After a crash, lost mdadm RAID 1 and need to backup sdc3 partition to another disk. How should be correct steps to make it done without pain? No longer using RAID 1 on this fresh new Ubuntu 19.10 as ...
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Pipe password argument to mount shell command
Status quo
Given are following /etc/fstab mount points:
//server/app /home/user/server/app cifs noauto,user,vers=3.11 0 0
//server/code /home/user/server/code cifs noauto,user,vers=3.11 0 0
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Is there a way to have a windows-like google drive client?
You can mount your google drive into ubuntu by using gnome online accounts, but this has pretty low performance as it seems it has to download each file to open it and upload every time you want to ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 can't read my SDXC card 128Gb (Buffer I/O error on dev sdd1)
I'm using a USB card reader Hama (has several slots). I'm able to open an SDHC card 16Gb with the card reader, Ubuntu can mount it. I'm able to open a microSDXC card 128Gb with my another USB microSD ...
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System hangs when writing files to NFS share
I have an unusual problem with my NFS configuration.
I'm building a NAS, so I tried setting up FreeNAS on VirtualBox. It all works fine, I can read/write to the share with sshfs without any problems. ...
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Steam problems with read-only filesystem
I've just installed Steam on Ubuntu 20.04, dual booted with windows on a huawei matebook 14 laptop. I am trying to set a games library directory on my Data disk, which is a separate hard drive. On ...
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Move tmp folder from '/' partition to mounted partition (/mnt)
I have an Amazon EC2 instance which has given me a tiny '/' partition and a large '/mnt' partition. As such, I have moved my mysql data-dir over to the /mnt partition. However I am now having issues ...
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Can't edit mounted drive from VSCode
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I do programming on a) a Mac computer, and b) an Ubuntu computer running off a 1 TB HDD that I boot from the Mac via USB. This works completely fine. However, I have my code on a 16GB FAT32 ...
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File doesn't have full rights when uploading from windows nfs client
Firstly I would like to say that my experience with ubuntu is completely beginner level. I have an old 32 bit machine running ubuntu server 16.04.6 LTS as a nfs host and a windows 10 machine as a nfs ...
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Cannot mount NTFS external drive
New Ubuntu Server install 20.04, for Plex Media Server (not yet installed). Popped in a USB NTFS drive which works on other machines. It has media on it which I need Plex to server. #
Attempts to ...
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Redirecting a locally mounted Windows SMB share (CIFS) to a Windows Terminal Server session
I have been living in the Linux world only two months so far and have hit a problem with the above mentioned task, now explained in more detail:
Our company has two Windows Terminal Servers to which ...
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Cant write to ntfs drive [duplicate]
HI i have a NTFS drive insalled on my machine runing ubuntu 20.04 and on the file explorer if i go to other locations, i can see the drive and can click and view the files inside it.
HOwever, when i ...
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Dont let me mount
First of all... Good day. I'm a Linux User from very long time and I love it. So much sometimes I make "experiments" And things broke up without knowing exactly why.
This Time I try to move ...
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System user write permissions to samba share
For the life of me I can't figure this out.
I have a NAS (Netgear ReadyNAS) sharing an open/guest Samba share. Anonymous access is allowed, no user restrictions. I can connect and read/write to the ...
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Ubuntu not booting and can't mount system partition from live USB (partition in use)
I have a dual boot installation with Ubuntu 20.04 that got somehow corrupted to the point that it won't boot anymore.
I have all my data backed up so in the worst case I can just reinstall, but I'd ...
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booting linux kernel 5.4.0-39, UUID does not exist. Dropping to a shell
After update kernel to 5.4.0-39 and restart, grub drop to BusyBox with
ALERT! UUID=8a9ba022-19a3-44ac-9632-d8c8cc1b44a3 does not exist. Dropping to a shell.
I did tried update-initramfs -u -k 5.4.0-...
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Is the `size` parameter for tmpfs in fstab not working?
I am confused about whether my /tmp using tmpfs is respecting the size parameter that I gave to it in /etc/fstab:
My fstab entries now read:
root_pool/var/tmp /tmp /var/tmp zfs rw,nodev,nosuid 0 0
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How can I hide an icon related to a mount point. Question about "x-gvfs-show"
My question is related to adding x-gvfs-show to /etc/fstab when I mount a folder to another folder using bind option.
Long story short, I have a number of applications installed via snap. As my home ...
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Ubuntu Core adding a cifs share
I'm very new to Ubuntu Core and would like to mount a network share to my pi3. Before I would just edit etc/fstab using cifs but when I try to use cifs it gives me an error mount error: cifs ...
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davfs - SSL handshake failed: SSL error: sslv3 alert handshake failure
I'm trying to mount a remote WebDAV (OwnCloud) using https on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine.
I run this command and it prompts me for a username and password
sudo mount -t davfs -o uid=ne,gid=users https:/...
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external HDD stopped working
Hi guys I usually work with large files on an external HDD (1 Tb Toshiba) but after rebooting the laptop for an update I can't see it anymore.
I am working with Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.
When I do dmesg | ...
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How can I access anbox filesystem?
I know anbox is still unstable, i installed the latest version of anbox in ubuntu 16.04 and it works fine but it seems i cant save or download files in the anbox filesystem. I noticed anbox ...
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Why can't I edit files using nano
I'm trying to update the file /etc/fstab/ so I can automatically mount my drive on startup.
I used the sudo mount -a command to check for any errors and I realised I have a typo in the file. I raced ...
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How to permanently fix errors with ntfs volume to be mounted in RW mode. Need ntfsfix everytime after Windows boot
I have one SSD disk with installed Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 on the same disk.
I also have the second HDD drive with NTFS filesystem which should be shared between Windows and Ubuntu.
I put the ...
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SMB mount - no write access by terminal but by gui
I want to mount a SMB share by the following command of a bash script, which works perfectly:
read -p "username : " user_var
read -sp "password : " pass_var
echo
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Unable to create new folder. (ctrl+shift+N) is not working in my HDD partitions folder
I have Windows10 in my HP laptop. Also I have 500GB HDD. I partition this HDD in windows10 and make three 100GB partition , all are in NTFS . Then two days before I install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in my ...
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Force mount sd card partitions after `dd`
When I write the Raspberry Pi image to the SD card on Ubuntu using dd, I need to remove the card and plug it in again in order for it's images to be automatically mounted to e.g. /media/$(whoami)/boot/...
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AppImage not working
I am using a dev tool for working with mongodb. It was working fine yesterday. when I came today I get this error while running the appImage in terminal
fusermount: mount failed: Operation not ...
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External Transcend USB drive not detected
I have two Transcend USB drive enclosures. When they were purchased (in 2019) they were working fine all the time with different disks inside (HDD, SSD). But at some point, probably after some system ...
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Not able to mount the disk
I recently I installed Ubuntu, but I am unable to mount the disk on it.
I run the following command to mount the disk.
sudo mount /dev/sda7 /disk20
mount: /disk20: mount point does not exist.
Results ...
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How to make NTFS partition for storage alongside Ubuntu installation?
I have an extra external hard disk that I want to use as both:
an Ubuntu 20.04 linux boot drive and;
additional storage for my Windows machine.
I want so that
if I connect this HDD before boot, it ...
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Sharing swap space between Windows and Ubuntu
This Linux Swap Space Mini-HOWTO describes how to share swap space between Windows and Linux. **Do these instructions still apply to Ubuntu in 2011? How should I modify the steps for Ubuntu?
Is ...
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Why my home folder has little space even though the disk mounted has plenty of it?
I have installed ubuntu 20.04 on an 120GB SSD then I mounted my home folder on a larger disk as /etc/fstab says the (/home/pc_magas is my home folder):
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
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Can't see the windows partitions from Ubuntu
I have a Dell Latitude 3500 with a 1GB HDD and Window 10 on it. I added a 500GB NVME drive which I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 on. Ubuntu did not see the Windows 10 installation but did see the EFI ...
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Internal drive turns read only
I am using ubuntu 16.04 and have an internal 8tb harddrive which I want it to be mounted to all users on my machine both admins and not.
I've created a folder called 8tb in /media/8tb
Then I added the ...
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Apps can't reach partition but i can
i am dualbooting ubuntu 20 with windows 10.
I can reach it using nautilus or terminal and edit without sudo but when apps try to reach it (npm, onlyoffice, deluge, firefox) they get permission error. ...
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How do I know the device path to an USB-stick?
I have a USB-stick (used as an installation medium). Now I need to install a driver from a restricted folder on that device). But how do I get the device path to my USB-stick (e.g. /dev/sda3 so I can ...
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I have a "home" partition, now how do I get my system to put my files there?
When setting up my system, I created a partition and mounted it as "/home", so I assumed my documents would land there, but they do not.
When I open and select my user name, Levde, I get a ...
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Seagate 2T external hard drive can not be mounted, detected by lsusb but not by fdisk -l
I have been having problem with this Seagate 2T external hard drive (type: HPFS/NTFS/exFAT) on my thinkpad VM machine.
lsusb result:
~$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0bc2:ab24 Seagate RSS LLC
Bus ...
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Cannot mount USB stick - errors out with "$MFTMirr does not match $MFT"
I have an NTFS-formatted USB stick. When I connect it to a Windows system, it works fine. However, I receive this error output when I try and mount the USB stick on my Linux machine:
Error mounting ...
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How to connect to Windows Share Without Password without modifying Windows?
I'm trying to access the sdcard that is inserted in my HP Officejet Pro 8500A.
My research shows that it should be accessible via
The IP and the folder memory_card. For instance if the printer's ip ...
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Restricting MTP devices from being mounted by a user/group
I am working on converting an Ubuntu (14.04 LTS) installation into a kiosk-like system with disabled USB storage. However, this does not prevent a user from mounting an MTP device such as an android ...
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Can access WIndows partition in GUI but struggling through terminal
I have Windows and Ubuntu installed. I'm today cleaning up my home directory and noticed there is a downloaded file I want to move to my Windows partition. I don't want to use GUI. I know it works. ...
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Ubuntu on Windows 10. Where is my USB mounted?
I am new to Windows and installed the Ubuntu image from the Windows store so that I would have a more familiar environment to fall back upon. Not so. I am still finding my way around the filesystem ...
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I have Ubuntu installed on an SSD. Will mounting my HDD to increase storage space reduce performance?
I'm new to Linux. Just bought a Dell Inspiron 5480 which has 125GB SSD and 1TB HD. Ubuntu came installed in the SSD. I need a computer with high performance, so it's good to use the SSD. However, I ...
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How do I recover NTFS on HDD after mkfs on wrong drive
I'm a total novice that made a mistake while trying to learn about Linux.
While trying to figure out how to mount my NTFS data drive (with all my back up photos, music, etc. on it) to a new Ubuntu 18....
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Mount QNX filesystem in Ubuntu 18.04
I am trying to mount QNX6 filesystem in Ubuntu 18.04.
For that I searched and found that I have to recompile my Linux kernel and enable CONFIG_QNX6FS_FS which I did and recompiled my kernel and all ...
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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 ...