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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Mount a drive partition last accessed by Windows

Comrades, I believe I've made a horrible mistake. I've got a nice desktop that I decided to switch to Ubuntu from Windows 8, and I created a backup folder of all my digital valuables. Because my ...
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How to identify an existing NFS or CIFS mount, is a hard or soft mount?

I've two NFS shares mounted on the OS & I also have one CIFS share. none of the above mounts in fstab file have soft or hard explicitly mentioned in their respective mount options. So how can I ...
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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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Error formatting volume: No such file or directory

I was being unable to access my USB drive. After following the instructions listed here, I found this response: $ sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 mkfs.fat 3.0.28 (2015-05-16) /dev/sdb1: No such file or ...
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no authority to raid10 array linux ubuntu

I have just created a Raid10 array with mdadm out of 3 X 1TB hhd, named md0. I followed these instructions: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-raid-arrays-with-mdadm-on-...
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All External Drives Mounted as Read only Ubuntu 17.10

Whenever I try to mount drives via any file manager they only mount as read only even if I run the file manager as root. Appears to affect all drive types.
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Arrgh! grsync not working. Again

I'd like to use it daily for a limited number of my most commone directories. But I can't. I'd especially like to use it for all common directories just before I travel. Can't do that either. It ...
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How do I auto-mount LUKS partition?

How do I automount a LUKS encrypted partition in a secure way? Ideally either when I log on (and therefore my password in at the log in screen), or once I get to desktop have Ubuntu ask for my ...
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Default mount options cause USB to mount in read-only

When I plug USB stick, it is mounted in read-only mode. dmesg output: [189999.758776] sdc: sdc1 [189999.759811] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk [190000.140329] FAT-fs (sdc1): Volume ...
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How to setup partitions on my boot disk with cloud-config?

I try to initialize an ubuntu 16.04 server via cloud-init. While booting the server the first time I wanna create the following partitions: root-fs (ext4 filesystem ubuntu) data-disk (xfs formatted ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 server can't mount vboxsf

I have a windows 7 host where I'm using a Virtualbox 5.2.8. On this Virtualbox I've installed a VM with Ubuntul Server 16.04 and the Guest Additions from this version of virtualbox and I'm trying to ...
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Problem loading an encrypted external hard drive

I have an encrypted Seagate drive. After plugging it in it does not automount so I tried using sudo fdisk -l and this is what I got as output. Disk /dev/loop0: 81.7 MiB, 85692416 bytes, 167368 ...
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Can't boot (grub disappeared), internal hard drive not being recognized

Up until today, I have had a dual boot installation of Windows and Ubuntu 16.04 installed on my laptop's internal SSD. I partitioned the drive so that most of it is for my Ubuntu installation and the ...
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Can't move files on cifs mount with 'mv'

Unfortunately I can't move any files within my mounted Windows Server 2016 SMB share. Working: Creating files/directories Delete files/directories Read files/directories Write to files/directories ...
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Why unmount a partition before overwriting the disk?

How to create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive from terminal? Why do guys here use umount first? I assume USB flash drive should be formatted first, so does umount format the disk, or just detach ...
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I messed up my partitions

I mounted linux onto my windows partition. I tried to make a windows bootable so many times and live boot it but the screen flashes blue when i try and boot it. Im completly lost and I really want ...
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what UUID to use in fstab to mount LVM ubuntu-vg root

I moved root to LVM. The system is running, but I noticed a folder inside root that looks much like a UUID (53d4...) from the previous system. How can I remove this folder? inside folder: I am now ...
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Automatically mount drive on plug using systemd

I want to mount a drive with a specific label automatically everytime it gets pugged-in. I do not want to use any other tool than systemd as other units depend on the mount and must be started ...
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I want to export mount path as NFS share

can any one suggest me the procedure? below volume with btrfs filesystem shoulb be exported as NFS share /dev/sdb on /btrfs type btrfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,space_cache)
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Can't access a local disk, links don't exist

I'm using an Ubuntu 17 ISO on a USB drive to recover my Ubuntu 17 install on a laptop that doesn't boot into the GUI any longer. I was wondering about grabbing the files from the local disk, but it ...
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NTFS or Windows hibernation problem mounting a disk image [duplicate]

I have a disk image named: disk.img. I cannot mount this because I think it's messed up from Windows. Here are some commands I've run: sudo mount -o loop,offset=135266304 ./disk.img /mnt/temp The ...
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Windows NTFS Drives not Read-Only

I am currently live-booted into Ubuntu 17.10.1 There are three internal hard drives plugged into the system: WD 320GB - A (contains Windows 10) WD 1TB - B (blank) WD 2TB - C (contains 1.6TB of ...
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why I get "existing superblock read failed: Invalid argument"

Facing issue while running mfks.xfs -f -i $ truncate -s 41943040 /d/backends/disk1 $ mkfs.xfs -f -i size=512 /d/backends/disk1 gives error meta-data=/d/backends/disk1 isize=512 agcount=2, ...
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Separating OS and user data to different disks [duplicate]

I would like to move all my user files, programs, everything that is not the OS. I'd like to keep Ubuntu on an SSD and put everything I've done on a separate 1TB drive. This includes everything in $...
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USB sticks and video devices not recognized

For the last 3 days, USB sticks that I plug in my laptop don't mount and video devices have disappeared from /dev. The USB stick is recognized as a USB device but not as a storage device and doesn't ...
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Reversing all the bytes or blocks of a partition to easily resize the partition

My current problem is that I want a way to dual boot a Linux system with a Windows or macOS system and still be able to resize both systems, but without moving them. For example, if I had a Windows ...
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What is Disk Image Mounter?

I am using Lubuntu 16.04 LTS 32-bit. On my hard disk when I select any ISO file and right-click on it, the menu list has 'Disk Image Mounter'. Please tell me full details about it, what is it and how ...
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make persistent per user mounts to network share on 16.04

We have several ubuntu task servers witch write results to windows network shares. For now the shares are mounted using the fstab and a service account with read/write rights on the share. The issue ...
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mount: can't read superblock

I have only one hard drive /dev/sda. In this hard drive, I've installed two Ubuntu systems: one is Ubuntu 16.04, the other is Ubuntu 17.10. Both of them have the same architecture of file system: ...
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Mounting external drive fails because operation not completed from Windows

I am working with Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS and I have a Seagate external drive to backup data from windows 10 and Ubuntu, using rsync script (through cygwin in Windows). WHAT HAPPENED: I was running rsync ...
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Stop rsync when external drive disconnects

When external drive gets disconnected while rsync is doing its backup job to the external drive, rsync will continue to copy files to my local drive instead of interrupting the process, filling up the ...
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NAS Support For Ubuntu 16.04

I've purchased the 'Western Digital MyBook Live 2TB Personal Cloud Storage'. It supports NAS. I am trying to setup automatic backups. (Something like rysnc which may run daily to backup my /home ...
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Solved Mounting a drive in my home directory at boot

So I installed Ubuntu 17.10 on a Lenovo 15IYB and got a new shiny SSD already setup to increase my user storage. as of right now I am also dual booting (i really wish I would not have to) so I ...
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HDD partition disappeared [duplicate]

I have an SSD that has Ubuntu installed, and a data HDD which used to be sdb. The hard drive has lots of data in it already. Now, I see fdisk doesn't show all partitions correctly and something has ...
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Can't mount card reader

I have a card from a camera. The card itself seems fine because when I put it back into the camera I can see the pictures. When I plug the card reader into the pc, its red light lights up but the "...
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How to recover files from corrupted fat32 USB disk

The drive was working normally until yesterday. Today when tyring to mount from Thunar it says: Error mounting /dev/sdd1 at /media/myname/ARCH_201511: Command-line `mount -t "iso9660" -o "uhelper=...
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Sharing partitions between Ubuntu and Kubuntu

I am a noob and have no experience with computers so maybe this is a stupid question. I replaced Windows with Ubuntu 16.04LTS a week ago. I want to have another installation for a rolling Ubuntu. So i ...
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Unable to access windows share using samba

I am trying to mount Windows share on local network but I fail every time. It gives me this message when I try and load it. Retrying with upper case share name mount error(6): No such device or ...
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How to copy my /home folder data to a new partition and mount it as /home? [duplicate]

As you can see in my previous post (click here), I'm getting a new motherboard. However, I saw in WikiHow (click here) that I have to reinstall every operating system in my drives. However, (also ...
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What is the best way to move my installed ubuntu form one disk to another

I would like to move the entire Linux/Ubuntu installation from a 1TB HDD to a 256GB SSD. There is hardly anything on the 1TB drive so I am confident everything will fit on the SSD drive. I want to ...
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Mount encrypted Hdd

I had some issues with my Hdd that is encrypted. I KNOW the passphrase, but I might have messed up something else (maybe LUKS header?) and now even with passphrase, I get an error: Error unlocking /...
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Unable to mount share from machine to Ubuntu VM as a guest using SMB (Able with AFP)

I am trying to connect through SMB and AFP from an ubuntu 17.10 VM image to a machine accessible from my network which has both AFP and SMB enable. I have tried to connect from both ubuntu terminal ...
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Deploying LXC inside DRBD mount

So I'm trying to deploy Ubuntu using LXC inside a DRBD mount. First I've changed /etc/lxc.conf so lxc.lxcpath points to /plesk which is where I'll mount DRBD. Then I created the machine with lxc-...
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FSTAB not loading properly [closed]

So today I updated my /etc/fstab to mount few NFS shares to my NAS and while I can type in the terminal and successfully mount them, fstab doesn't seem to fully execute after restart. I am running ...
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Recovering a RAID array

I accidentally corrupted my build of Ubuntu 17.10 through a forced reboot (on a 5th hard drive). In my system I had 4 other hard drives part of a RAID5 array. Now that I've installed Ubuntu 17.10 ...
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Automatic, but secure encrypted mount on Linux from CLI

This is so specific... I'd like to be able to remotely log-in to a server. When it first boots it would run a script or set of instructions to contact an external server based upon network-hook (...
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Can't mount a samba share

I think I did everything I need, I installed cifs-utils on the server and the client, plus smbclient on the client. I also share the folder like this: [Ventas] comment = varpeta de ventas path = /...
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Unable to mount ext4 file system, it says mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4dev'?

I am trying to mount an ext4 file system in Ubuntu terminal, but I get the error message mount: unknown filesystem type ext4dev $ lsblk -f /dev/sdb1 NAME FSTYPE LABEL sdb1 ext4dev ext4 The ...
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Storing data on second HDD, mounting

I have a new laptop with SSD + HDD. I already managed to set up a dual boot with Windows 10 preinstalled and Ubuntu 17.10. Ubuntu root, home and swap directories are all on the SSD. In addition I ...
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Unable to mount windows partitons in ubuntu 17.10

I have recently dual booted win 10 with Ubuntu 17.10 and everything is working fine but I am not able to mount windows drives, i.e., local disk C (sda3 in photo) and local disk E (sda4). I have ...
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