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mount to an existing ubuntu server os
I currently have ubuntu server installed on an ext4 partition which contains the root file system. I wanted to separate /var out to its own partition. So I booted gparted live, created another ext4 ...
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Dual booting Ubuntu with Windows 7 on a single hdd with common slaves?
I have a question...when using multiple partitions for shared access, do you use '/media/' as the mount point, or is there a different way to set this stuff up? I'm setting up a multimedia system ...
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nautilus connect to server - can not reach filesystem root
Using Ubuntu-Raring I connect via 'Files/Connect-to-server':
ssh://root@myhost:mysshport/
connection works ok, but I am connected to '/root' on the target system and can not reach the filesystem root ...
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How to select mount points for Windows partitions?
Can someone give me some criterias on how to select mounting points for ubuntu installation?
At the moment Windows 7 is my main OS on the pc and the 250GB hdd memory is allocated this way:
C:/ -Win7 ...
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What do I do when my root filesystem is full?
My / folder is reading as full and I can't update software or do anything.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong here.
$ df -h
Results:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ...
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What's the difference between USB, UUID, Disk identifier and Vendor ID?
I need a persistent, unique identifier of a USB drive that never changes, to make a mount point folder.
Can you explain the difference between Disk Identifier, Vendor ID and UUID?
Can you also advise ...
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how to mount dvd-rw drive/create mount point
I just get ubuntu 12.10. So I am a newbie.
I have sata hard disc with partitions - sda 1 (swap) sda 2 (mount point /) and sda 3 (mount point /home).
Today I add another internal hard disc (not sata) ...
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Small harddrive for Ubuntu, Large harddrive for Music, Video, Pictures etc?
I have a small SSD for running the operating system (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, it used to windows but recently made the switch!). I then use another large harddrive for storing all my data (I call it "11111", ...
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Changing default mount point of external HDD
I know hot to assign a mount point to my usb hdd(ntfs) in terminal but as soon as it's unmounted and mounted again, it goes back to default folder that is /media/Seagate Expansion Drive
What i did so ...
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Changed flash drive's mount point, now I can't mount anything
I used GParted to change my flash drive's label to AdamDrive, so that it mounted to /media/adam/ADAMDRIVE instead of /media/adam/980B-F3AC. I re-mounted it and it worked fine. Then I unplugged it, ...
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How can I change the mount point of an external hard drive
My external HDD currently automatically mounts at a certain name, let's say /media/500GB hard drive. I wish to make it mount at a different location, for example /media/500GB_HDD.
I have looked ...
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Specifying a custom mount point for an empty partition
I have ubuntu 12.04 running on my system. I repartitioned my hard disk yesterday, I have an empty 40GiB partiton.
Can I mount it at say /data-part ? How do I do this ?
I have formatted it as ext4.
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How do I create a file system / partition / volume that would appear in the side bar of my file manager?
Is there a specific mount point to use for a partition so that it would appear separately in the side pane?
I mean that it would appear separately in the left pane of PCManFM or Thunar the way ...
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Where is my Android phone's mount point, so I can rsync it?
I would like to rsync my music with my Android phone (Galaxy Nexus), I'm trying to work out the mount path to use from the shell. The mount command doesn't show up on the phone. In Nautilus the ...
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reasonable USB mount points
Plugging in my Android cellphone in Mass Storage mode mounts the SD card via USB onto an insane pathname like
/media/sp;<_html>/
which of course causes problems later with other programs like ...
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Mail server crash [closed]
I have a mail server running Ubuntu 12.04. My server has a main 200GB hdd as the /, and other scsi hdd. As far as I recall, I used the 5 scsi hard drives for different mount points - swap, /usr, ...
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Setup with same mount point (help me, please!)
this is my situation: I want to have installed 4 Operating Systems, by the moment I already have 3 OS installed (Windows XP, Windows XP 64-bit edition and a Linux distro). These are some features of ...
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How to get permissions for all users for new drive added to the system - 12.10
I've added a new disk with a single ext4 partition and I want to use this as a shared multimedia drive /dev/sdd1 for all users and occasional samba users. It seems to work ok while I am logged in as ...
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Lost the Hard Drive Icon from the Launcher
I unlocked the C Drive icon connected to the Launcher. Once I moved it onto the desktop, it disappeared.
In attempting to create an new icon, I was asked to create a mount point. The mount point ...
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Shortcut Icons on the desktop do not work
My desktop computer has two drives each with two partitions apart from swap, boot. /dev/sda1 has Windows XP,programs and some data; sda2 and sdb1 have only data: sdb2 (40GB) has Kubuntu 12.04.01.
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How to go back to mounting cdrom as /media/cdrom as in 12.04 and not /media/USER/TITLE as in 12.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to configure the default automount location?
After updating from Lubuntu 12.04 to Lubuntu 12.10 the place where CD-ROM is automounted changed, breaking some ...
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After upgrade to xubuntu 12.10 I have 2 mount points for each partition
Just upgraded Xubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 (both XFCE and LXDE desktops are being used at this system). Now I have 2 mount points for each partition. It looks like this:
It appears this way in both ...
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Was /media mount point location a planned change? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to configure the default automount location?
I would like ask an important question regarding Ubuntu 12.10 installation on my laptop T500 ... those partitions which ...
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umount: it seems [device] is mounted multiple times
i was finishing up a job with a compact flash when, trying to unmount it:
#> umount /dev/sda2
umount: it seems /dev/sda2 is mounted multiple times
Looking at what mount says:
#> mount | ...
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Mount point label randomly modified on mount
I have an external drive mounted that I want to mount at /media/Storage. I used disk utility and then gparted as per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive to change the label of the drive ...
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Mount point space is not the same as the HDD
I'm new to linux and I have question about mount point
I have two HDD in my system, one 500GB and one 1TB
The 500 is used for OS and swap, the 1TB is for storage only
the 500GB is name sda1 and 1TB ...
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How to check if a cdrom is in the tray remotely (via ssh)?
I have a server running Ubuntu 10.04 (it's on the other side of the world and I haven't built up the wherewithal to upgrade it remotely yet) and I have been told that there is a CD in one of it's two ...
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fs flushm command cleared firefox history!
I had a corrupted mount point for a USB Flash Disk. Based on some reading, I installed "openafs-client" and used "fs flushm" command. The USB issue got cleared but my entire (unlimited) Firefox ...
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Need to create a Partition after installing Ubuntu
I have a 1TB hard drive. :P
The problem is that I've already installed Ubuntu 12.04, but I did not make any separate partitions beside the one the operating system is installed on.
Now I want to ...
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How to launch Ubuntu without pressing F1 in Macbook 4.1
I am using a Macbook4.1. WHen I use sudo lshw -C disk this pops up:
*-cdrom
description: DVD writer
product: DVD-R UJ-867
vendor: MATSHITA
physical ...
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How to emulate the mounting behavior (automatic creation and removal of mount points)
When I mount from Nautilus, the mount point is automatically created, and when I unmount, it's removed. But, when I try to mount from the command-line on a mount point that doesn't exist, it won't ...
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When installing, how can I have multiple mount points on a single partition?
I want to put /home, /var, /opt and /tmp on /dev/sda2 and /root on /dev/sda1 when installing Ubuntu.
My PC has an 8GB integrated SSD, and I would like to use it to speed up boot time and application ...
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/media folder nearly full - /media/vids folder has 500gb free
Weird error.
I have a 1Tb HDDmounted as my main file repository. It is mounted as /media/Vids.
When I check properties of /media it says 2Gb free.
When I check properties of /media/Vids it says 586Gb ...
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double mount point created after using mount manager from ubuntu repossitories
after I used mount manager from repo, in nautilus was created two mount points for one disk, one works fine, second is simply an icon, when click is getting error:Mount is denied because the NTFS ...
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Mount /tmp and /home to separate hard drive
is it possible to mount the root file system '/' on one hard drive (where folders like /usr, /boot, etc will be stored) and mount /tmp and /home to another hard drive on the same partition?
Something ...
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Need help with mount points during fresh install
I have decided to wait for Windows 8 Consumer Preview...
but till then i decided to try various linux distro
currently i dual boot with w7 n ubuntu
my ubuntu is one big partition / and a swap ...
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Need to mount second internal hard drive to specific location
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop on an old server. The Ubuntu OS is running on a 250Gb hard drive and the files I want to share on on a second 1Tb hard drive mounted in the server.
The 1Tb drive ...
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What are mountpoints, and which one should I pick?
When a Ubuntu is fresh installed an option called Mount Point is shown in Advanced Install.On clicking it i get a dropdown list with options:
/
/home
/bin
swap
etc
What exactly are they? and which ...
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How can I move /var to another harddrive?
I've put a new SSD as /dev/sda, the old HD as /dev/sdb. And done a fresh installation as one partition on /dev/sda1.
The main quirk in my set-up is that I don't want to repartition the old HD, since ...
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Ubuntu Not Booting/Freeze at Startup
Ubuntu 11.04 is not booting up with the following error message at startup
/device/sda2 is not ready or not present...
/device/sdc2 is not ready or not present...
Then the screen just hangs.
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Location of “Connect to Server…” mount
If I mount a Windows share using the "Places>Connect to Server..." option where is it mounted and is it always mounted at the same place?
I need to know the path so I can access it from the Terminal.
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Why is the second Windows partition mounted under /host
Probably I could read it somewhere, but couldn't find anywhere.
In Windows 7, I have had two partitions ("Disk C" and "Disk D"). After installing dual-boot Ubuntu, I can access disk C under ...
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How can I create a symlink to the location that Ubuntu 10.10 mounts a CD?
In Ubuntu 10.10, when I insert a CD or DVD into my optical drive, the system mounts the CD in a folder called /media/XYZ where XYZ is the disk's label. This has cause problems with Wine, as in order ...
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How can I create a new partition with mountpoint by splitting an existing partition?
How can I split an existing partition (NTFS) to get space for a new partition and create a mountpoint for it?
