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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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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How to automatically start a service after manually decrypting /home partition
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I have a service,seafile.service, that automatically starts a Seafile server after boot. However, this service is failing to start on my Ubuntu server that has an encrypted /home partition. ...
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Which of the two identical hard disks is mounted?
I ordered new Debian web server which has 2 hard disks. I assume that one of them should be partitioned and mounted. The problem is that I cannot identify which one should be partitioned and mounted ...
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Repair bootloader of a .DISK file
I have a .disk file which contains an exported web server. The web server was using a central bootloader system prior to it being exported.
I now have a disk file that won't boot and needs repairing....
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USB not getting mounted due to Read-Only
Here is the image:
I have tried the following command but got nothing:
sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sde
/dev/sde:
setting readonly to 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
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Permission issue on Nautilus on mounted folder on 17.10
I upgraded from 16.04 to 17.10 and I have now a problem with the mounted folder from my NAS. I use NFS to mount it, here the fstab line:
192.168.1.103:/volume1/music/ /media/Kaori/Music nfs ...
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Slow boot or no boot at all - how did i mess up my ubuntu installation this time?
UPDATE 2018-03-23
So, i finally identified the problem. Its all about mounting NTFS paritions on startup on a dual boot setup. So if you want to share data between windows and linux, you might want ...
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Can't mount NTFS partitions, and don't have Windows installed to fix them
I've just installed 16.04. Ubuntu. I installed it on old C:/ partition (250GB SSD disk, all place for Linux, ext4) so I don't have dual-boot and I am not able to boot Windows because it doesn't exist ...
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How to recover the corrupted flash drive ?
My Flash drive is corrupted and I am trying to recover it using this answer in ask ubuntu whose link is this https://askubuntu.com/a/37775/658451.
I have tried
lsblk
sudo blkid
sudo fdisk -l
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Home partition becomes readonly
Similar to this post, the file system on my home partition suddenly became read only. On reboot, my HHD containing this partition would not mount and I had to use fsck to repair it. Now it works fine. ...
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Error opening /dev/sdf1: No such device or address (udisks-error-quark, 0)
My computer`s hard-drive started to give some boot-related errors after a reboot. After running the in-built diagnostics tool of my computer, it found out that, it can no longer detect the hard-drive. ...
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unable to mount a damaged micro sd card
Hi all and thanks in advance for your help.
I am running ubuntu on a virtual box trying to recover a damaged micro sd card. i have tried using photorec however it does not see the drive. I have the ...
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Ubuntu 1 TB hard disk format
I have external hard drive which is 1TB.
I was using Ubuntu 16.04 and it was working fine
then i have replace with internal hard disk to solid state drive[SSD] and that also working fine.
but now i ...
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Restoring fstab file on a Dell laptop
I am using Ubuntu 16.04LTS on Dell Inspiron 7577. Something went wrong and it appears that the fstab file became corrupt. Sadly, I didn't make its backup. Now the top menu and the launcher don't load ...
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If I mount the ISO where is the kernel initrd for the OS installer
I'm trying to make a KVM installing from ubuntu iso. In order to use the cmdline argument in the XML to kickstart the vm (as i asked here) I need to figure out where the kernel intrd and kernel are ...
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Encryption on a cloud
What is the most convenient option up for now?
I tried FUSE + encfs, but it turns out to be extremely slow (probably, due to FUSE).
Wrappers like Cryptomator or Boxcryptor are virtually unusable ...
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Why are there multiple loop devices for the same snap?
I used lsblk to check connected devices, when I found that there are a total of 3 loop devices for the same snap "core", with revision numbers.
loop1 7:1 0 81.6M 1 loop /snap/core/4110
loop2 ...
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SDHC not mounting
I have a 16GB SDHC i card from transcend and nothing happens when I put it into the embedded sd card reader. I ran dmesg and got:
[ 12.005989] mmc0: Timeout waiting for hardware cmd interrupt.
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"chmod g+w" not working: adding permissions on a NAS to a group using file_mode and dir_mode in fstab (Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS)
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I am a passionate PLEX Media Server ("PMS") user. I was running both PMS and uTorrent on a Mac Mini in my bedroom. uTorrent downloaded media from the internet to a 2Tb WDMyCloud NAS ("NAS")...
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Mounted Windows partition shows as empty
I'm trying to access Windows files from Ubuntu. I mounted the Windows partition in read-only to /media/windows, but when I open the folder, it's empty. The Windows partition is displayed as 723 GB ...
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disk mount: what does "require additional authorization to mount" do?
In ubunutu 16.04, I am exploring an external HDD with the utility Disks. Under the mount options interface, I see the possibility to require additional authorization to mount.
I selected the option ...
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How can I clear a lost+found directory in an external drive?
TL;DR: Formatted an external hard drive with ext4 filesystem, repaired it using fsck, and have a lost+found directory on it with thousands of unneeded files. I know that lost+found can't be deleted, ...
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format a USB drive that contains Windows OS, but is read-only flile system [duplicate]
Normally, I use GParted, but cannot this time as I will explain.
I have a USB drive that was sent from Dell, containing Windows 8 or 10 (I cannot remember which). I would like to reuse the drive for ...
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How can I transfer photos from iPhone to Ubuntu using USB cable?
I want to transfer some photos from my iPhone 7 to an Ubuntu 16.04 pc, via USB cable. When I plug the USB cable, it appears in the Files window, but whenever I open the device in the sidebar, a "...
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Newly mounted disk space not recognised by DUA
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 inside VMWare Fusion application on Mac OS X.
In VMWare Fusion app, Hard Disk space is set to 30 GB and when I run fdisk -l command, I can see 30 GB being recognized for Ubuntu.
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./ looks full but its actually space used in ./ZFS/
foo has failed me and I'm sure this is a simple thing but...
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I want to be able to configure the application KVM/QEMU/Virtual Machine Manager so it does not monitor my / mount point in ...
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Where do I mount a drive so that both Plex and FileBot can access it?
I have 2 drives in my machine that I want to use with Ubuntu. Ubuntu lives on a 256GB SSD and I would like to use a 4TB HHD for media storage and backups. I use Filebot to rename media and Plex as a ...
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how to recover semi-corrupt data from working harddisk? [duplicate]
In my 1 TB hard-disk very strange problem occurs. When I backup my Linux Data into another hard disk during copy process because of interrupted power supply or may be connection cable problem hard ...
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How to avoid sudo?
I am in folder /datadrive/ which is the mount point of /dev/sdc1 (in /etc/fstab I have /dev/sdc1 /datadrive ext4 defaults,nofail 1 2) and whenever I try to make any operation in this folder ...
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ADATA 2TB external hard drive shows as No Media and 0.00GB space
ll -s /dev | grep sd shows sda and sdb, sdb being the corrupted drive.
$ sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb /mnt
mount: /dev/sdb: can't read superblock
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
fdisk: cannot open /dev/...
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how to check if mount is soft NFS
I'm looking for a command to check if a nfs folder is mounted soft, my fstab is:
10.10.1.3:/home/share3 /home/share3 nfs soft 0 0
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How to mount second hard drive correctly
I'm having some difficulty using a second hard drive. I want to mount a second hard drive, via sata, to directory /media/data. The problem is when I have my second hard drive attached the cli says ...
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What `uhelper` option in `fstab` means?
When we run mount we can see:
/dev/sda2 on /media/kes/A49C24B59C2483C0 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2)
What ...
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Migrating from Windows 10 to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS without loosing data in "D:" drive [duplicate]
I have two partitions on my hard drive. One with Windows 10 installed and the other with my personal data, "C:" and "D:" respectively. I want to remove windows from that machine and install Ubuntu on ...
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Mounting ftp via curlftpfs on 17.10
On 16.04 i used curlftpfs#<login>:<pass>@<ip> /media/ftp fuse rw,allow_other,noauto,user 0 0 string inside /etc/fstab to mount ftp.
Now on 17.10, when i add this string to fstab, ...
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How to mount a raw image? [duplicate]
I am trying to mount a raw image in my ubuntu VM but it returns a mismatch type error:
root@ubuntu:~$ sudo kpartx -a -f -v xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
root@ubuntu:~$ cd /dev/mapper/
root@...
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what do the parameters uid and gid with /etc/fstab do?
I'm mounting directories. I wrote the needed lines to /etc/fstab.I'm using cifs protocoll.
I wonder what the parameters uid and gid do, since they're similar for any user. (So this can't be any user ...
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Hard Drive problem - Buffer I/O error on dev/sdb. Can I fix this drive or at least recover the data?
I can't mount my hard disk anymore. dmesg -w shows this kind of error.
[14258.478443] usb 3-4: new high-speed USB device number 16 using xhci_hcd
[14258.620177] usb-storage 3-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage ...
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