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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NFS vs CIFS show two different sizes of used space [closed]
EDIT: I have filed a bug against this one at https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13570
I have been using a CIFS mount for a while, but recently I have setup a NFS mount for testing.
When I ...
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Membership of which group grants a user access to udisksctl?
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04
There are multiple partitions on /dev/sda. /dev/sda1 is where the system resides, /dev/sda2, ..., /dev/sdaX are NTFS partitions. There are two users, admin and user.
admin ...
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SAMBA: Why do symbolic links work on Windows but not cifs mount on Ubuntu?
A SAMBA server has a symbolic link, which I can verify it by mounting the same server with NFS:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug 14 20:07 folder -> ../../../../folder/
The problem is, Windows ...
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Using existing home directories in different partition to Ubuntu [duplicate]
All of the questions I've looked at in respect of this issue relate to moving an existing home to another partition and I don't want to do that. I had to reload Ubuntu 18.04.1 on my machine and ...
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How to fix file system corrupted usb (USB is not detecting)
My USB flash drive has been corrupted and I really need it to work, I have tried to list the devices with command
lsblk
But it's showing only my hard disk and when I try to mount it with terminal ...
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NTFS Archiving drive is only permanently deleting and cannot send items to trash
Okay so I've already done some research on this and I seem to have an intersection of a few problems.
I have a drive /mnt/md0 that is a Raid1 3TB NTFS drive. My OS is 18.04.1 and is running off a ...
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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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Mount folders to specific partition
I'm relatively new to Linux/Ubuntu and just installed 18.04 LTS Server on a VPS.
During setup I created 3 partitions using LVM (other than boot):
/
swap
/var
This is the output from df -h:
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iPhone mounts only once, doesn't show Pictures, Documents on remount
I have an iPhone 8 that initially connects via USB so that the Pictures and Documents folders are available under Ubuntu 17.10. However this works only once between Ubuntu reboots.
How do I ...
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How to mount a SD card to use with STEAM to expand storage for games
NOTE: DO NOT Mark this as a duplicate I know the same question has been asked but my problem has still not been resolved
I have installed Linux(Ubuntu 14.04 with xfce) on a Chromebook using crouton. ...
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external drive is disconnecting, GParted warning "input/output error during read on /dev/sdb"
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 on Dell Vostro.
I have a problem to use external hard drive. When I plug it, first it works, but in some time it unmount by itself (while reading data or not).
While the ...
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How do I solve "Server requires packet signing to be enabled" when mounting a Windows share?
Consider:
11:12 dev@ubuntu ~/qsr (build-0.3)$ dmesg
[57392.897482] CIFS VFS: Server requires packet signing to be enabled in /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags.
[57392.897935] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/...
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What is the difference between creating swap space and creating a filesystem?
I know that to create swap space on file or disk, we have to use command mkswap //filename, and to create filesystem, we have to use mkfs command, but what is the main difference between creating swap ...
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No device file for connected SAS drive
I am trying to mount a serial attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive on my Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS system, but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding device file in /dev. It seems the system is recognizing the ...
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Fix unrecognised Flash drive - no file system on the usb
I installed Ubuntu on my PC from a flash drive and then deleted the iso image from the drive (which was obviously not the right way to do it). Now the drive appears to have no file system on it and ...
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GRUB recovery - help needed
During Ubuntu startup (not remember exactly, but no newer than 16.04)
I got error
Minimal Bash-like line editing is supported. For the firs word, TAB list possible command completions. Anywhere eise ...
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using cifs and cannot paste to folder or change ownership
I have been using the following to access files on a another PC on my desk and it has been working just fine for more than a year. I did an Update and Upgrade today and now I cannot Paste into the ...
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What command will wake up a sleeping USB drive?
I have an power-managed USB drive that powers down when not in use, and wakes up automatically when accessed. It's used as a backup drive from a root script which mounts it when necessary. Sometimes ...
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Setting up boot/efi in fstab
I'll try to be brief on the backstory.
I recently bought a really cheap slim notebook,came with a low power celeron, 4gb ram and a 32gb eMMC drive, it also features a 500GB internal Sata HDD I added ...
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unable to mount any drive that working fine on windows [duplicate]
Whenever I boot Ubuntu, I get a message that it cannot mount my windows partition, and I can choose to either wait, skip or manually mount.
When I try to enter my Windows partition through Nautilus I ...
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Change file permissions on hfs drive
I was unable to boot macOS on my mac laptop. I took the drive out to try recover my documents un my ubuntu machine. I installed
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs
sudo apt-get install hfsplus
So I could ...
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bootable external hard drive accidental disconnection recovery
My current portable setup consisted of an external hard drive used as a bootable usb disk. I have multiple distros on it and it works well except when the hard drive is accidentally disconnected. ...
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I messed up ocamlfuse by using sudo command "Error: Sqlite3 error: READONLY"
I started using ocamlfuse to access google drive with Nautilus and it was functioning perfectly fine. The thing is, at some point I used, by accident, the sudo command, I'm not shure if it was to run ...
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Pen drive not mounting
This worked earlier, but no longer works.??
andy7_~$ mount /media/andy/KINGSTON_DRIVE/
mount: /media/andy/KINGSTON_DRIVE/: No such file or directory
andy7_~$ sudo mount /media/andy/KINGSTON_DRIVE/
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Mounting an external drive: Need help translating dmesg output
I'm troubleshooting an external hardrive for photographer friend. She has a year's worth of photos stored on the external drive, unfortunately, Windows (her go-to operating system) does not recognize ...
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Recover corrupt USB: visible in lsblk and lsusb, nowhere else
I have a LUKS-encrypted USB drive which until a few days ago was working correctly. After booting my system and trying to access the drive one day, it asked me for my decrypt password over and over ...
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How to disable CIFS Null Login sessions
I scanned my servers on vulnerabilities recently and some ubuntu servers have following issue: CIFS NULL Session Permitted
Description:
NULL sessions allow anonymous users to establish ...
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ubuntu 18.04 steam installation
I am new to ubuntu/linux.
My question will be about installing steam on my second ext4 formatted hdd.
Mind you, not just the downloaded steam games but the steam program and the games. (once i ...
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/dev/sda2 disappears appear Ubuntu reboot
After rebooting my Ubuntu 16.04 on virtual machine, I discovered that /dev/sda2 is no longer available.
Here are my outputs from df and sudo fdisk -l:
df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% ...
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Stuck for applying permissions with Ubuntu 18.04
This worked on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine. I just switched to Ubuntu 18.04. This isn't working.
It's all updated.
I plugged in an external drive. I went and looked at the drive through the gui, if ...
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After update, Ubuntu changed location of internal HD to an external media
Apologies if this is a duplicate - I'm not too sure what exactly to search to get an answer.
This morning, I installed some Ubuntu updates (I'm running 16.04) and restarted my PC. I have 3 internal ...
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How to make hfs+ external drive read-write (journaling already disabled, still not working)
I have a hfsplus external harddrive, which I have to write to. Problem is, that it is read-only. A few days ago, I disabled journaling on a OSX-System and then I could write on it. Now a coworker used ...
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Mounting iPhone on Ubuntu 18.04
I have been trying to access the root filesystem of my jailbroken iPhone 4 on Ubuntu 18.04. I followed the steps of this: How can I mount my iPhone 6s on Ubuntu 16.04?. Everything went smoothly but I ...
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Not able to create file system, mount or delete for my RAID
This is my first time building my own RAID and I think something is messed up and I have no idea what to do next. I have looked all over the interwebs and have not found any solutions that help.
I ...
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Error: (sudo: unable to change to root gid: Operation not permitted) [duplicate]
I have installed Oracle VirtualBox on my Windows 10 machine. As a guest OS I installed Ubuntu 16.04.04.
When I open the terminal on Ubuntu and run a command like:
sudo apt-get update
I get the ...
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Mounting and using a secondary drive [duplicate]
First of all I am a beginner. Yes I have researched several articles and done lots of reading about file systems. I am using ubuntu server 18.04. I did successfully download and use gparted and have a ...
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Cannot access /var/www from Live Session
For some reason Ubuntu won't boot.
I want to recover my files from /var/www/.
When I boot into live session, and go to /var, the /www folder isn't there anymore.
I try using blkid, and the HDD is ...
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Repairing Flash Drive that wasn't ejected with I/O errors?
I was dumb and didn't eject my flash drive, now it won't show up in mount, can't be manually mounted, dd just hangs when trying to zero it out, and I get I/O errors when trying to format it. I know ...
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Why are there so many mount points on my Ubuntu 18.04 installations? Is this related to Snap?
So I did an install of Kubuntu about two weeks ago. I'm fixing to install my cloud server with NextCloud and get it configured to run with my home network etc but in the process, running mount I ...
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Dual Boot Ubuntu Alongside Loopback Device
I'm trying to install Ubuntu on my new Dell XPS-15 2-in-1 which has Windows 10 on it. The problem is that the Ubuntu installer won't recognize the windows file system so I can't partition the disk to ...
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Connect to server Nautilus paramters
I'm connecting to my server using the below command in terminal $ sudo mount -t
cifs -o "username=${USER},password=${PASSWORD},uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g)" //server-address/folder /mount/path/on/...
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Setting NTFS partition permissions for external hard drive
I need to mount an external hard drive, always with some given file permissions on files and directories. I know how to do this once but I do not know how to make these changes permanent so that these ...
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Corrupted boot partition
I have Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu 18.04 installed. Recently, I was trying to change a partition size on Ubuntu, but I failed. Then, just Windows was booting up.
To fix this, I created a bootable USB ...
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Error: Can't Read Superblock On Dev/SB1
Just got a System76 laptop last week running Ubuntu 18.04 with a 2TB SSD as an extra drive I am using as "cold storage" for files. This morning when I went to add something to it, the drive would not ...
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How can I ensure laptop mounts shares on boot if connected to WiFi?
I have several folders on my NAS set to automount on my Xubuntu laptop at boot, using a saved credentials file. Each one has an fstab entry that looks like this:
# NAS home
//192.168.1.111/Home/ /...
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How to virtualize a windows device (/dev/sda2)
i'm using a dualboot windows/ubuntu 16.04, is there a way while i'm on the linux OS, to mount the windows (/dev/sda2) device and then use some kind of virtualization app to run it from my linux?
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Stack will unmount after reboot [duplicate]
I have a mounted a partial disk on my Ubuntu VPS.
After a reboot the disk will be unmounted.
I can remount it manually but it keeps unmounting after rebooting the VPS and this stops the cron jobs I ...
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How can I specify the order in which filesystems are automatically mounted?
I need a particular row in /etc/fstab to be mounted always after two other rows:
# Always mount these first
UUID=fdf38dd4-9e9d-479d-b830-2a6989958503 / ext4 noatime,discard,errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=...
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Unable to mount Audio Disk: Message recipient disconnected from messages bus without replying
When I insert audio CD I get the following message:
Unable to mount Audio Disk Message recipient disconnected from
messages bus without replying
When I start Sound Juicer the following message ...
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Which zfs command/systemd unit to depend on to ensure that a mountpoint is available?
I would like to make sure that a ZFS mountpoint is available before service managed by systemd starts. Therefore I'd use the After= stanza in the systemd unit. But, what to write as argument?
I'm ...
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