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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Why udisks is not in the system

In Ubuntu manual regarding AutomaticallyMountPartitions is described that Nautilus is using udisks to mount partitions. But when I type udisks in terminal system tells that I need to install it. So, ...
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How can I stop Gnome Shell's drive pop up notifications?

I have an NFS drive mapped in Ubuntu 11.10 using autofs which automatically mounts a drive on every boot. But if I use the Gnome Shell interface, a pop up notification keeps popping up from the bottom-...
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How to get a working mtp connection for Galaxy S2 in 12.04? [duplicate]

Any one able to get proper MTP connection setup for Galaxy S2? Ubuntu 12.04 detects my device and automatically mounts it but it's only partial. The problems are: When I connect my device it ...
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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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Ubuntu goes into read-only mode randomly

For the last few days, my Ubuntu 12.10 has been going to read-only mode randomly, making me unable to save any edited files, and forcing me to restart my computer, which is a pain because this is the ...
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How can I get SD cards to mount automatically even when X isn’t running?

I have an old laptop with a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04. The GUI is painfully slow, especially when something is animating, so I followed these instructions to prevent the window manager from ...
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CIFS mount in FSTAB does not work after update

A few hours ago i made a full update via the software-center. The mounted shares allready worked fine, but after updating i just get this error message: mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the ...
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Mounting /tmp as tmpfs on Ubuntu 20.04

I'd like to mount /tmp without fstab entry using tmp.mount However on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, it doesn't seem to work. user@user-x1:~$ systemctl status tmp.mount Unit tmp.mount could not be found. user@...
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Where are cameras mounted?

I have a canon PowerShot A3100 IS camera, and, as written in the title, I want to know where does the automount mount it when I connect it. Does anyone know?
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How to hide mounted partitions and devices from Unity Launcher via Command Line?

I've checked and read similar questions, but most of the answers requires installing either dconf-tools, CCSM or MyUnity. In Ubuntu 12.04, is there a way to hide mounted partitions or devices from ...
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Mount Samba share allowing users to read/write

I mount a samba share with the following command: # mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/username pc -o username=username,password=xxxxx But only root can go inside that share. How to allow users read/write ...
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The error: "mount: only root can do that" while mounting a partition

I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 along with Windows 8.1. When I tried to open the C: drive in Ubuntu a window is popping out saying to run this command: mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda2 /...
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Why are NTFS partition UUIDs shorter than normal?

If you use the sudo blkid command to view partitions with their uuids or just view the /etc/fstab (considering you have got some NTFS partitions) you will probably notice that UUIDs of the NTFS ...
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safely remove using command line

I have a external seagate 1TB USB hard disk. Every time I connect it to my computer it gets automatically mounted. While removing it I select safely remove option rather than unmount because I read ...
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Mount UFS filesystem

How do I mount a partition with UFS filesystem (FreeNAS) in Ubuntu 11.10? I'm a total Ubuntu newbie and just switched from FreeNAS. There should be ll the info I need I guess, but if anyone would ...
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Mount Ubuntu's partition on Windows 7 [duplicate]

Is it possible to mount Ubuntu 10.10's partition on Windows 7?
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How do I list all options a file system is mounted with?

Both mount and cat /proc/mounts do not give me all the options I specified in the 'options' field in /etc/fstab. For example, this is in my /etc/fstab: # <file system> ...
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resize /dev/loop0 and increase space

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/loop0 2765720 2393576 231652 92% / udev 496568 12 496556 1% /dev tmpfs 202148 796 ...
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Can't mount USB : "Not Authorized"

Since three months I am waiting and searching for a solution to mount a USB stick again. I am using Ubuntu 11.10 32bit and 64bit Dell machines and I could not really find a useful answer what ...
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How to mount LUKS encrypted file?

I have a file (about 13GB). When I execute the command file "filename" in terminal, It shows tails_filesystem: LUKS encrypted file, ver 1 [aes, xts-plain64, sha1] UUID : blahblah And, when I mount ...
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Problem with cifs-util. Mount: only root can mount [closed]

i'm trying to use cifs-utils to get files in another machine. In the other machine i've installed samba. Everything works fine if a try in the same machine (the one with samba) using cifs-util, but it ...
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How do I add a network drive to Plex?

So I've been looking around and can't find an exact solution to my problem. I dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04. I like Ubuntu and want to use it instead of windows. Everything was working on ...
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Are pre-existing files in a mountpoint directory safe and uneffected?

I've noticed that pre-existing files in a "mountpoint" directory disappear when the mount command is applied... and then they re-appear when the directory is unmounted. Are these files just on "...
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"FAT-fs: IO charset iso8859-1 not found" error while mounting FAT Drives

I am unable to mount any fat32 or fat16 formatted usb disks under Ubuntu 13.10. The thing here to note is that it is happening only with fat formatted Disks. ntfs, ext formatted external usb disks ...
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How to access hard drive files from liveCD?

I don't know what files or file types are there on the hard drive nor do I know the file system in which the hard disk is written on. I am not able to view it in the home folder after booting from the ...
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PXE boot of 18.04 ISO

Previously, I've set up PXE booting of the Ubuntu LiveCDs by extracting the ISO to an NFS mount and copying vmlinuz.efi and initrd.gz from casper to the tftpboot directory with some iPXE scripting ...
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How to mount an image file without root?

I have a file with an ext4 file system in it and want to mount it without using sudo every time (the script should run with user rights). The file I want to mount and the folder which I want to mount ...
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fsck e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting [duplicate]

When I tried to run fsck on Ubuntu 18.04 recovery-mode I got the following message. Can anyone tell me why? /lib/recocery-mode/recovery-menu: line 80: /etc/default/rcS: No such file or directory fsck ...
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Why is my external USB hard drive sometimes completely inaccessible?

I have an external USB hard drive, consisting of an 1 TB SATA drive in a Rosewill RX35-AT-SU SLV Aluminum 3.5" Silver USB 2.0 External Enclosure, plugged into my SONY VAIO VGN-NS310F laptop. It ...
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BusyBox on persistent USB Livesystem

I retried to build my persistent Linux USB stick, now Ubuntu 16.04 is out. But still it boot only to a busyBox prompt when using the persitent boot entry: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinux.efi file=/cdrom/...
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pam_mount often unable to mount and hangs for minutes

I have some centrally managed Ubuntu workstations that authenticate users against Active Directory and mount user home folders on logon with pam_mount. This usually works as expected, but sometimes ...
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Error mounting samba network drive (wrong fs type, bad option, ...)

Yesterday I've installed ubuntu on a pc and want to use it as homeserver. I created some shares with samba and everythink worked perfect. But if i want to mount them to my system with this command: ...
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How can I prevent Ubuntu from mounting particular partitions/devices?

I would like to stop Ubuntu from mounting my other (Windows) partitions automatically since I do not need it very often, I would like not to automount "System reserved" partition for Windows. There ...
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Create blank disk image for file storage

Similar to the way Mac OS X users can create and mount blank .dmg files, add and remove files as much as they wish, and move that image wherever they want... as if it were a virtual USB drive. Is ...
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Why can't I copy a large number of files to my USB flash drive?

Final Update: So it turns out that the drive was indeed defective and I was able to get it replaced - the replacement works great! What happens: I insert the flash drive. I try to copy 2GB of ...
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Is `chown user:user lost+found` harmful?

Recently I created an encrypted filesystem (crypto_LUKS) that serves as $HOME for just one particular user (i.e. I mount it as /home/pduck). I also added an appropriate entry in /etc/security/...
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Don't automatically open the folder of mounted devices [duplicate]

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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Opening LUKS encrypted drive in nautilus results in "operation cancelled"

I'm on a Ubuntu 16.04 computer with a LUKS encrypted drive trying to mount an old Ubuntu 16.04 LUKS encrypted drive. When I open the drive in Nautilus, after entering the correct password I get the ...
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Accidentally mounted a partition on /usr

I mounted a partition on /usr accidentally. Hence, I have lost access to sudo command and can't unmount the partion. I am using AWS EC2 instance and don't have password for root user set. What are ...
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How to change permissions on mounted windows share?

I have mounted a windows share, But only root have write permissions.. I need to change that to my user so my programs can download and save stuff to my windows share. commands I've have used to ...
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Nautilus' remote folder default mount point

I connect a remote folder in Nautilus (file info says that it is done via sftp), and within it the folder becomes fully browseable. But I can't access it from the other applications: I couldn't find ...
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Managing Kindle Fire with on 12.04 via Micro-USB

To begin, I have read both Is there a way to get a Kindle Fire to work with 12.04? and How can I transfer files to a Kindle Fire with a Micro-USB cable? My problem is that I am unable to mount my ...
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How to mount ext4 partition?

How do I mount an ext4 partition as my user account so I wouldn't require root access to r/w on it? I used -o uid=flint,gid=flint on the mount command but I keep getting mount: wrong fs type, bad ...
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Unable to access 64gb volume - Ubuntu 14.04

I'm unable to mount Sandisk 64GB SDXC card. This error shown while connecting using my phone. I tried this, this and this links, but unable to find any solution. I've tried the below commands to ...
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Access mounted volumes via the command line

I've plugged an external hdd into my usb port, and it shows up on the desktop and in nautilus. How can i access this mounted hdd via the command line?
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How to Create Virtual Block Devices

I want to create multiple virtual block devices like /dev/sda and then use them to create an md device for test purpose. I have mounted my root filesystem on /dev/sda1 and don't have extra space to ...
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Mounted cifs share but no write permissions

Have reinstalled Ubuntu on my web dev server. On the old one I had an smbfs share setup to access a share over the local network to other Ubuntu boxes. It was setup using the following and worked fine ...
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How to specify a password when mounting a smb share with gio?

I'm working on a software that needs to mount a smb/cifs share automatically. The catch is that the share must be mounted using the user's login and password, and, AFAIK and for reasons completly ...
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SD card is recognized but won't mount "can't read superblock"

When attempting to look at the files on my SD card I get the following message. ## Unable to access “16 GB Volume” ## Error mounting /dev/mmcblk0p1 at /media/automat0n/6366-3430: Command-line `mount -...
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Suddenly can't run sudo

I didn't do anything on the computer except Internet for a few days and suddenly when I tried to do: $ sudo apt-get update I got: sudo: effective uid is not 0, is /usr/bin/sudo on a file system ...
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