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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eMMC replaced with SD, showing incorrect storage size

I'm attempting to get an SD card to mount on boot for permanent storage and I'm pretty sure I screwed it up. This is my first time with Linux and I'm not a programmer. I've never even partitioned ...
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mount and read-only issue on Ubuntu 22.04

Can anyone please tell me how to resolve this problem? The file system says it is read-only when I try to use chown or chmod. Apc Extension failed: Error: EROFS: read-only file system, rename '/snap/...
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Show Disks in Nautilus sidebar

On a fresh installation of Ubuntu 23.10, my other drives do not appear in "Files" sidebar. I would like my mounted drive to appear their like in Dolphin. I made some research, but nothing ...
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linux running a script on a mounted fritz-Box share result in "bad interpreter" in ubuntu 22.04, works on 18.04 (other shares work)

A script like: #!/usr/bin/env bash ... or #!/usr/bin/env python3 ... will result in (german): -bash: /mnt/Fritz-USB/FritzUSB/t.sh: /usr/bin/env: Defekter Interpreter: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler ...
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My external HDD not mounting and not being seen

So a few months back I was using my Toshiba 1Tb external HDD and when I was done I unmounted it before taking 'Safely Remove Drive'. Not thirty minutes later when I went to reconnect it, it wouldn't ...
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External drive mounts only as root

I'm having trouble with a USB drive. It used to automount just fine but for some reason those good old days are over. Not only does it not automount but mounting it as a regular user from Nautilus or ...
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I want to use toilet to modify hook_function [closed]

I need to use toilet to modify hook_function,when I use hook than result can produce colorful output. Appreciate your response. Thanks in advance. #include <stdio.h> typedef long (*syscall_fn_t)(...
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Most of my hard drive is inaccessible, full storage, cannot install anything. /dev/sda2 825G 7.8G 775G 1% / [duplicate]

when trying to update my machine or install anything, I get an error of no space left. alex@servercomputer:~$ sudo apt install lvm2 Reading package lists... Error! E: Write error - write (28: No space ...
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Can't access www-data directory as a root user on my nfs share

I have an nfs share mounted on my server, who acts as storage for my Nextcloud instance. As usual the directory is owned by the www-data user. After a restart of my docker containers, there were ...
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How to fix fstab entry to mount a partition?

On ubuntu 22.04.4 I am trying to mount a partition as read/write. The following command seems to work: sudo mount -o rw,user,uid=1000,umask=007,exec /dev/nvme0n1p4 /media/Work/ but I want to add it ...
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How to mount/format fat32 partition so that I can WRITE on them? [duplicate]

I am trying to format a partition /dev/nvme0n1p4 as fat32 on ~/Work so that I can WRITE on it. But when I try to write e.g. touch Work/test.tst I get an error touch: cannot touch 'Work/test.tst': ...
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How to access a /media folder that has been mounted from a external hardrive?

I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 x64. I have installed Apache, php5. I have configured two sites folders in the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default One is the in /home/me/www and the other is on the external ...
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How do I mount a GPT Drive in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?

So here´s what happened: 1 - I have an Imac and was trying to downgrade it from High Sierra to El Capitan by trying to force its installation manually. That corrupted the OS system files and I could ...
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Auto Mount virtiofs

So I have a KVM of Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS running on my Server. The base operating system is Open Media Vault 6 (Debian-based). I have 2 file systems I am passing through to the KVM, I can mount them ...
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I couldn't mount my external ssd (ntfs) to my ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

I tried something, but it's not working. For me, the sudo fdisk -l command gives me this output: ... loop devices removed from output ... Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 ...
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Small snap loop devices visible in gnome-disk-utility OR what is the function of snap ubuntu-core

I just realized using gnome-disk-utility (3.18.3.1) that my 16.04 installation is featuring several small loop devices. In detail: 78 MB Loop Device (/var/lib/snapd/sn_ntu-core_352.snap -> /dev/...
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Unresponsive storage ssd

I have a ssd with very important data in my workstation. It has a ext4 and a ntfs partition. This morning, the ext4 partition (sda1) didn't mount, and the filesystem was listed as "unknown" ...
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gio mount password with special characters

I want mount using well-known way gio mount smb://<user>:<password>@<server>/<share>/ In my case gio mount "smb://WORKGROUP;myuser:+B@e}F)q8tra@@192.168.1.199/" I ...
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How to recover a deleted LUKS partition

I have created a LUKS encrypted pen drive with the gnome-disks tool, but a time ago I have accidentally formatted the disk, losing the partition. I tried to recuperate the partition stored on sda1 ...
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Mounting WD external hard drive mybook

UPDATE: When I put in dmesg after plugging the external hd in, the output is the following (last lines): [15233.307914] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp) [...
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Ubuntu 22.04 on Raspberry Pi: /var/cache/fontconfig Gets Created Before /var Is Mounted

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish, ARM64) on a Raspberry Pi. After imaging the Pi's SSD, I re-partitioned the drive and mirrored the contents of /var onto the new partition (verified), renamed ...
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the folder content could not be displayed input/output error

I'm new to Linux and I have Ubuntu Budgie (Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS) (Budgie version: 10.6.1) (OS Type: 64-bit) I have this ntfs type HDD: I checked its file system: I saw that it's not damaged: but when ...
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Problems reading filesystem of recorded DVD-R

I am experiencing problems when trying to read DVD-Rs or DVD+Rs recorded by different TV DVD Recorders. Usually the problem is that when I try to manually Mount the dvd with the udf option (with auto ...
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sudo apt-get upgrade errors

I get the following errors when running the apt-get upgrade: dpkg: error processing package nfs-common (--remove) cannot remove /sbin/umount.nfs4: Bad message E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an ...
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How to mount an external hard drive as HFS+ by default?

I just switched from MacOs to Ubuntu 21.10. I use an external HFS+ hard drive to share files between MacOs and Ubuntu. To enable read / write on this disk from ubuntu, I have to mount it with hfsprogs ...
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CIFS mounts broken after update from 23.04 to 23.10

For some weird reason my CIFS mounts have failed following the recent upgrade from ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 Here's my /etc/fstab file... //192.168.0.6/Backup /media/backup cifs rw,credentials=...
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debootstrap failing to mount /proc

I have researched this, and none of the answers (so far) on here, nor googling seem to match my problem. Here is the situation: I am running Xubuntu 12.04 as a base install, and am trying to set up a ...
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How to get Windows-like caching behavior for USB external drive

The problem: Thunar claims that it's written my files to a thumb drive, then I spend 15 minutes waiting for the drive to unmount. I understand it has to do with the write cache. I hope there's a way ...
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Root filesystem check failed

While updating ubuntu my system crashed and after restarting and entering to ubuntu I get the message Root filesystem check failed.Very much similar to the post Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10: Filesystem check ...
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Unknow error when mounting /dev/sdb1

I tried sudo apt install --reinstall ntfs-3g then the sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1, and get this: Mounting volume... Incomplete multi-sector transfer: magic: 0x58444e49 size: 4096 usa_ofs: 40 usa_count: ...
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Can' t mount CD or DVD

I' m trying to burn a simple mp3 data CD but I can' t get k3b/brasero/xfburn to work. Basically K3b says 'Please insert an empty or appendable medium', like if there wasn' t a CD in the DVD recorder. ...
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Cgroup one of the needed subsystems is not mounted

I'm a web application developer. I am learning about container internals and Linux. I was following the article Complete Intro to Containers. When I ran the command cgcreate -g cpu,memory,blkio,...
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Disconnected Network Drive while connecting to windows using samba

We are facing an issue when we are trying to auto-mount a Samba share drive on a Windows EC2 instance. However, when we manually mount it or run the PowerShell script manually, it connects ...
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Setting timeshift backup to harddrive, getting "Device not found" error

I'm trying to set the backup location for timeshift to a new external hard drive I just bought. I formatted the drive w/ an ext4 filesystem w/ the command: sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sde I then ran the ...
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Docker Relocate to external USB SSD Problem

Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS Docker version 24.0.2 I am trying to relocate the /var/lib/docker directory to my USB SSD flash drive to save memory on the internal storage, however, I am having difficulty doing ...
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Mount file system which is a SQL Server filestream

We've got a web app (.NET 8.0) which uses the File API to save and load files from a SQL Server's FileTable. In practice, this means that the web app can rely on a "virtual" share to load ...
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USB hard disk and USB flash drive keep unmounting and remounting

I wanted to backup some files on my external hard disk and just barely managed to do so, because it randomly unmounted and mounted again. My first thought was that the hard disk's life is about to end....
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Can't see files/dirs within a USB drive, within WSL?

I have a redirected USB drive from a Windows 11 PC into an RDP Windows 10 guest (mounted as drive J:) running WSL; when I view drive J: in Windows Explorer in that guest I see all of it's files; ...
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Unable to view mounted drives in Samba when mounted to /mnt/ instead of /media/

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Desktop) I'm unable to view my mounted drives in the 'Other Locations' directory in the file explorer. lsblk shows that the drives are mounted at the correct locations specified in ...
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HDD exfat partition will not mount

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 dual booted with windows 7 (on separate SSDs) and just stored all of my music on my 1.5 TB HDD (which is formatted as an exfat partition). Everything was working fine for a ...
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Bluray drive not responding when inserting a disk

Problem: I am trying to play a bluray disk on my Sony Vaio Laptop running Ubuntu 12.04.2. I have tried many tutorials on how to do this and actually I was able to play 1 scene once. But after reboot ...
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Mount Permission denied

I have an Ubuntu Desktop client machine ( with version 22.04 ) where I have to receive mappings from an RedHat 8.9 server My RedHat server is configured with Samba to share folder. The export file is ...
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Protect system disk from attaching to another machine

I have a device (Raspberry PI 3, Orange PI 5) with SSD as main disk, running under Ubuntu 22.04. This device should be autonome, i.e. autimatically reboot and autorun some services. There is some ...
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Flash drive Partitions not showing in Amd64 Ubuntu 20.4 -but displays in Arm64 Ubuntu

I’m having difficulty accessing a USB flash drive on my Ubuntu 20.4 virtual machine. I can access it on my Arm64 Ubuntu 18.4 Embedded computer. The blkid command reports /dev/sda2, along with the ...
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Long (40s+) kernel boot time (probably swap mount issue?)

I have messed with swap and now i think i have a mount timeout during boot, but I can't find the reason. What I did was to switch to a swapfile, but i decided to move back to separate partition for ...
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Mounting Drives

The last time I touched Unix of any flavor it was Solaris, so please forgive me. I'm am so very rusty. I decided to build a home lab and get back into things. I've built, destroyed, and rebuilt my ...
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mounted NTFS volumes becomes unaccessable seemingly at random, with error: Transport Endpoint not connected

I have 2 NTFS volumes mounted on my Ubuntu system, they had to be NTFS because they are a shared volume with my Windows 11 dual boot. On boot up, the mounted volumes would function just fine. However, ...
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Error when getting information for file - Input/output error

I ran rsync sudo rsync -aE --progress /mnt/seagate/dataset/RD\ 8* /mnt/backUp/backUp/dataset/ and pressed ctrl-c by mistake. There was a SIG-INT error whic makes sense. But now, I am not able to ...
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Unmounting partiton on shutdown shows failure

I have the following in /etc/fstab: LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs / ext4 discard,errors=remount-ro 0 1 UUID=8ff508b8-3975-4ef9-acc1-8ea7aeec56dc /home ext4 defaults ...
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SSD emergency mode [duplicate]

I tried to boot after mounting a new SSD. You are in emergency mode.

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