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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Mounting drives - different drive is listed
I had to do a fresh installation (ubuntu 22.04.2 server) of an old server. I forgot to save the mount settings :(
There are 4 drives, a OS drive (sdc) and 3 data drives: sda, sdb, and sdd that were ...
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How to see unused hardrive space?
Just installed 2TB nvme hard drive and did a default Ubuntu server install. When I run df -H I only see about 136G. Here is my output:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted ...
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External usb device not seen by deja-dup
I have an issue with an external USB backup device (ext4) that has been declared in the FSTAB, and is mounted ok. I get the message 'waiting for Music Backup to be connected' when I try and use deja-...
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NFS mount best practice
Say I have some data on an NFS server that is currently mounted to /mnt/data on a client but I want to have it accessible at /home/user/data instead, both server and client are running 22.04.
Would it ...
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How to proprly mount an internal hard drive shared between linux and windows
I've recently switched to ubuntu predominantly but I dual boot windows mainly for games which wont run on linux. I have an internal SSD I'd like to be able to use as a shared drive between my linux ...
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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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CIFS mount not on showing correct owner
I have a CIFS mount on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. getcifsacl shows the correct domain user as owner but not getfacl shows unix root user as owner.
Not sure what i am missing.
wbinfo -t
wbinfo -n
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Couldn't read my external disk
My External disk couldn't be read by fdisk or GParted, but when I ran lsblk ->
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sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 16M 0 part
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How do I resolve these error messages?
Processing fstab with mount -a failed.
Failed to mount C:\, see dmesg for more details.
Failed to mount D:\, see dmesg for more details.
<3>WSL (9) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:370: getpwuid(...
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Looking for a better understanding of how this UEFI workaround for Sophos XG should be performed
I have found a workaround to allow Sophos XG to boot without CSM but it requires this workaround.
I don't totally understand Linux but I'm working on it. I can get the /boot to mount on sda1 but I ...
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How to change volume/mount name of freshly mounted storage drives?
I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu desktop for a Plex server I am building, and I had to manually format/partition the two 4TB HDD's I installed. After using the command sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc (and ...
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Mount and Pycharm
Initially, I had to manually mount the secondary drive each time, but I decided to set up auto-mounting. However, after configuring auto-mounting, my PyCharm IDE was unable to find the mounted drive.
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Ubuntu extend harddrive to mounted one seamlessly?
I have two mounted harddrives (one hdd and one nvme) besides my main hd, my docker file (weaviate) will install massive code, and also data. I want the code on HDD and the data on nvme.
I suppose my ...
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Does ldmtool work properly for windows mirrored drives?
I'm dual booting windows 10 with ubuntu. My windows installation has a 4 TB mirrored drive that I'd like to mount in linux as well. I read that ldmtool is the proper way to do this (according to https:...
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Error with snapd. "system does not fully support snapd": cannot mount squashfs image using "squashfs"
I was trying to install snap (or snapd). I used the command: sudo apt install snapd
It seemed to install successfully, but when I went to install the hello-world package from snap I got this error
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I am confused about --make-{shared,slave,private,unbindable} flags of the mount command
I am confused about --make-shared, --make-slave, --make-private and --make-unbindable flags of the mount command.
Can someone please explain in simple words , what each flag do ?
and what is the ...
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Error when getting information for file "folder/": input/output error
I've searched for some similar questions for my problem but couldn't find solution. I've flash drive that I copied some files from window OS for a long time ago,and I cannot open them on ubuntu, ...
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Ubuntu unable to boot with PCI Bus error and kernel panic not syncing unable to mount root fs
Hi my desktop Ubuntu unable to boot with message such as PCI error and Kernel panic unable to mount root fs on unknown block etc.
The full message is in the image as attached at 1
I have no idea what'...
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Keep getting "end kernel panic - not syncing unable to mount root fs on unknown block"
I'm trying to run Ubuntu on VirtualBox (on Windows 11). I followed the instructions here https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-run-ubuntu-desktop-on-a-virtual-machine-using-virtualbox#1-overview
When I ...
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Can not mount a partition having XFS filesystem and block size of 64K
I am currently testing SQL in a container. I have attached a 6TB volume from XtremIO to this box and mapping my database directory to this volume(Partition name-/dev/sdb1). To get the optimal ...
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webDAV mount contains only `lost+found` folder
I want to mount a webDAV remote on my ubuntu 22.04 system. Precisely, this is on a private storage service and is accessible through either
i) my credetials at the link https://pandora.infn.it/ws-my-...
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How to mount an LVM formatted hard drive connected through a USB adapter?
What would be the standard directory to create for an external hard LVM hard drive?
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ ls /dev/mapper
control vgubuntu-root vgubuntu-swap_1
nicholas@mordor:~$
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What is the path to the files on this external hard drive connected via a USB adapter?
I'm not seeing a hard drive connected through an external USB adapter:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 010: ID 0461:3f41 Primax Electronics, Ltd HP Wired Desktop 320K ...
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Disconnected Hard Drive Still Listed and Will Not Mount
I have a 3 Terabyte hard drive I took out of an old NAS. I ended up using it as a distro testing drive, as it was old and I didn't want to risk losing data to drive failure. I installed Pop!_OS with ...
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How to change permissions of ntfs partitions?
I have this directory:
/second -> with "/dev/sdc2" partition.
I've used the file /etc/fstab to mount it:
/dev/sdc2 /second auto defaults 0 0
When I try to change its permissions using &...
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I just upgraded to 22.04 LTS and all my symlinks are broken / drives mount with new names
I just tried to upgrade to 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) (from previous LTS)
There were some issues, it said it couldn't do the whole thing, but it could download some packages. Eventually I seem to have ...
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I can't get Kubuntu 23.04 to open from a live USB pen drive
After downloading the .iso file and chcked it with MD5, I used Rufus (Windows 10) to make the Live USB flash drive.
When booting from the USB flash drive I get the following message:
[ 0.118288] x86/...
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Kubuntu 22.04 stopped to mount Intel RAID0 device
I'm dual-booting Windows 10 and Kubuntu LTS for years. I have Intel RAID0 created in BIOS long time ago. I can confirm both Kubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 could work with it. It has NTFS filesystem.
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Partitions are mounted under /media/user1/ even for user2, who cannot access them
Ubuntu 22.10 and Cinnamon.
Say we have two users: Admin and Standard.
There are a few external disk partitions that are mounted at startup (no changes to default Disks settings).
Admin logs in. ...
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cant mount windows drive share to ubuntu server
I have been trying to mount an SMB share to my VIM4 (a single board computer) running Ubuntu Server, but no matter what I get mount error(13): Permission denied. I can mount the SMB share on a laptop ...
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Process '/usr/share/usbmount/usbmount add' failed with exit code 32 (automounting sd cards)
After updating to Ubuntu 22.04.2, usbmount no longer works. /var/logs/syslog contains the following:
May 21 13:57:44 homeserver usbmount[8979]: loaded usbmount configurations
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NVMe very slow speeds INTEL SSDPEKNW512G8L
need some help to identify why this disk is running so slow:
sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 1962 MB in 2.00 seconds = 982.96 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 90 MB in ...
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Wired netwok / netplan is missing
I am using Ubuntu 22.04 in my VM. Until today, I was able to access the internet on my Ubuntu machine, but all of a sudden I see there is no wired network option available in settings. And also there ...
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Mounting Microsoft Basic Data drives
I have recently dual booted and wanted to mount my windows drive on Linux. But when I try to do it, it says "Unable to mount". While windows system shows the partition as NTFS, Linux shows ...
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Mounting new HDD, error: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program or other error
Recentely I've installed a new HDD in my system. After making a partition with Gparted, mounting it to a folder I made called /mnt/media and writing the necessary line in /etc/fstab I get the ...
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Mounting Error via fstab
I'm having an issue mounting via fstab which causes my ubuntu server to boot in emergency mode.
and I'm not sure what I did, but I did have this working at some point. This is how the code is written ...
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How do I mount a guest Samba share on Ubuntu?
I have a public (guest enabled) Samba share running on my local network from my Xubuntu server. I can access this on my Xubuntu 22.04.02 linux client with Thunar using the path smb://hostname.local/...
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System won't boot because it thinks it has dependency on sshfs mounts
I have a desktop running Ubuntu 20.04. I typically keep /mnt/wdblue4a and /mnt/wdblue4b mounted with sshfs, just with a script I run manually if I want to access their content. This has never been a ...
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fstab error and parse error when sudo mount -a
I have made a network mount with password but get the error:
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 13 -- ignored
mount: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 14 -- ignored
and here is my fstab with the ...
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Is it possible to set a volume label on a bind mount
I'm playing around with using bind mounts in order to fake presence of USB removable storage devices in unit test code.
mkdir /tmp/fake_USB_drive
<set up some fake content>
mkdir /media/$USER/...
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Make a partition read-only, and revert it
Is there a way to flag a partition in a disk (internal, for the case in point, although I doubt this is relevant) to be read-only?
I mean to do it from within Ubuntu (that's why I posted here). I ...
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Phantom /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf on every boot
I have several "phantom" /dev/sdX entries that don't point to any hardware:
~$ ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 May 3 11:04 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 May 3 11:04 /...
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Not able to access samba share in Nautilus on Unbutu 22.04
I am running OpenMediaVault NAS version 6 on a Raspberry Pi and have a SMB/CIFS share that I can access from Nautilus on a Ubuntu 20.04 install and also on Android, but does not work in Nautilus on a ...
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WD Elements USB drive is not recognized
OS: Ubuntu 20.04
External drive: WD Elements 2Tb Portable (WDBMTM0020BBK-EEUE)
When I plug in the drive, dmesg reports that:
[10373639.389152] usb 2-3: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using ...
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Ubuntu - Clearing Orphaned Inode and Can't Switch to Virtual Terminal
When I reboot my desktop, it gives a bunch of lines that look like:
/dev/FOO: Clearing orphaned inode BAR(uid=0, gid=0, size = FOOBAR)
Eventually it gets to a line like:
/dev/FOO: clean, / files, / ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 dual network configuration, WAN / LAM
I have a server with two network interfaces.
One network interface is connected to a public IP. This is a Web server. All is working.
I want to configure the 2nd network interface with a private IP, ...
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fsck fails with invalid superblock
New install of 22.04.2 on a Dell Insperion N4110 Corei3. When I run fsck from live CD I get:
ubuntu@lubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -f /dev/sdb
fsck from util-linux 2.37.2 ...
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Suddenly Ubuntu only sees 4 of 5 hard disks. Anything to do/try?
Recently Ubuntu stopped mounting (or even seeing) one of my hard disks. I assumed the disk had failed so I replaced it only to find it's not actually the disk itself. It seems to be something to do ...
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Partitioning disk on Ubuntu Server 22.04
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 22.04 lts on a free partition of an external ssd disk. The ssd disk contains Linux Mint Vera. During the installation, at the section: Storage configuration: a ...
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can't take the ownership of my secondary hard drive [duplicate]
i have a ntfs hard mounted on /mnt/HDD and i want to change the ownership of the files inside from root to amiroof. i tried
sudo chwon -R amiroof:amiroof /mnt/HDD
but that didnt worked and the ...
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