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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Editing "/etc/fstab" to add a mount point: I need clearer instruction
I'm having the exact same problem solved by this answer (trying to add a shared folder in Virtual Box, having it be owned by my user; Win host/Ubuntu guest), but I need clearer instruction:
What is ...
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Mount error(22): Invalid argument
I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm having some problems mounting a NAS with CIFS
I've been searching the forums for 3 days now to find a solution that could help me.
Here is what I tested :
The command I am ...
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Recovering data from HDD
I used to have a problem with WD Mycloud Gen 2, but I replaced an HDD with a new one and now it's working. But I need to read my old data from an old HDD (WD RED 3 TB)
In Disk Utility I see the ...
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Files reduce to zero byte(empty) whenever I paste it or save it in a particular partition
In a dual boot system, I have a directory which can be access by Ubuntu also. Folders can be created, files can be renamed and files can be copied from, but whenever I try to paste or save any file in ...
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How to Install Windows from Extracted ISO on NTFS Partition with Grub2"
I am running Lubuntu 23.04 on /dev/sda3, and it's working well. However, my Windows partition (/dev/sda2) is corrupted. As I don't have access to USB or DVD, I extracted a Windows 10 32-bit ISO to an ...
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Docker volume not properly mounted
My docker-compose.yml (for Immich, in case it's important) contains this:
volumes:
- ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
- /data/NAS_Photos:/mnt/NAS_Photos:...
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A 2TB drive won't mount (exfat), Ubuntu 22.04.3
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS . The 2 terabyte USB drive is a WD "my passport ultra"
The drive icon shows up but it doesn't mount. If I alt-click "mount" the result is
"Error ...
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External HDD stops mounting just one drive
hope you are well.I usually use external HDD and it worked very well all the time, but today suddenly it stops and i disconnected it. After that when i connect it again my F drive is not mounting. I ...
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how to mount seperate partition for /var [duplicate]
So i am trying to write a script for hardening Ubuntu based on CIS benchmarks,
this is what recommended for /var:CIS benchmark details
for testing purpose i have installed a new Ubuntu 22.04 in Vbox,
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After upgrading to Ubuntu 23.10 I am unable to access my Seagate 10TB expansion drive
I upgraded from 23.04 to 23.10 and everything seemed to go smoothly except that I am now unable to mount my seagate 10TB expansion drive. Sometimes it is not even available but unplugging and ...
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Drive filled up after connection to NAS was broken
Version: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
This has probably been covered before but I'm not sure what do call it to find it.
I use NFS in my fstab to connect my Synology to /media. My Synology went offline for a ...
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Correct way to disable snapd in Ubuntu Server 22.04?
I'm very new to Ubuntu. I have several Raspberry Pi's to be used for a Kubernetes cluster with Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS (64-pit), installed using their Imager tool and running on SSD:
# lsb_release -a
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mount dir not really exist
I removed the snapd completely from my server, yet there is a directory still giving me trouble.
I can run:
cd /snap-snapd-16929
And it seems ok and when I'm running "df ." from inside I ...
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How do you resolve Device not accepting address error 62?
I used my usb drive on a shared computer in my workplace that is very old (Window Vista old I think) and no connection to internet. It detected it but the files and directories are all in gibberish. ...
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Asymmetric Filesystem Encryption
How to encrypt (live) data preferrably as a write only filesystem using a rsa public key known on the device (which is offline), that only later can be decrypted by using the private key?
So once ...
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mount windows smb to ubuntu server at boot [duplicate]
mount smb with user write/read, via cifs at boot, after network.
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=USER,password=PASS //ADDRESS/SHARE /PATH/TO/DIRECTORY/ _netdev
Can I add this to etc/fstab? Where do I ...
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NAS drive will not mount on some WSL2 systems
The same commands for mounting a NAS drive have completely different results.
I have data from two computers, both are WSL2 and Windows 11.
The only clue I've come up with is the updated Linux kernal (...
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How to access own computer drive when using puTTY on a cluster
I am completely new to this (""coding"" and such), so this may be one of the most basic questions asked around here but couldn't find the answer anywhere and have been struggling ...
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mount with cifs and sec=krb5 fails with "Required key not available"
The problem
First time posting here, and also not the most super experienced ubuntu user, so I hope that I can describe my problem well enough.
I am trying to mount a windows fileshare to our ubuntu ...
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Recover Data from unmounted nvme
To give a context:
Since ~10 months I used to start my Ubuntu by going inside grub and write as follow:
set root=(hd0,gpt3)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.19.1-051901-generic root=/dev/nvme0n1p3
initrd /boot/...
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want to mount box storage on ubuntu
I want to mount box storage on Ubuntu 22.04.
https://geekrewind.com/how-to-mount-box-on-ubuntu/
I'm trying to mount Box by looking at web pages like these, but it doesn't work.
The TLS connection ...
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using xubuntu linux, I created a udev rule to capture adding sdc-z* and mount in a directory, but gets mounted again in /media/user as well
I have written a shell script that is called by a udev rule when a new usb device is added and the partition matches /dev/sd[c-z]* . The shell script does get called, and my shell script mounts it in ...
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Mount external LUKS hard drive
I recently updated my laptop's hard drive to a bigger one. The previous one I mounted it in an external case to transform it in to an external drive. The old drive was encrypted with LUKS. When I plug ...
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How to auto mount VMware Shared Folder on boot
I want to automatically mount a VMware Shared Folder on boot in Ubuntu.
Currently, I'm using the following command manually each time:
sudo vmhgfs-fuse .host:/"Ubuntu Shared Folder" /mnt/...
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nfs client time out after apt upgrade updated nfs-common
I am running virtual ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS node in a virtual cluster and have three nfs shares , shared between all instances. All the other nodes run on CentOS stream, but this one contains two GV100 ...
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Unable to access a Samba shared folder
I've been trying to make a local backup of all my family's photos and videos for easy access due to how sluggish Dropbox has become. When I set up the Samba shared folder this showed up:
What's worse,...
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Unable to mount Patitions in new version of ubuntu 23.10
When I try to open the partition it shows me this error
I tried everything like
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda1
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda2 /mnt this command works and mount the partition in mnt but when I ...
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Hard disk has become read-only. fsck, some other solutions listed below did not work
I am a new Linux user, on Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.03 LTS. For trying Linux, I started with a dual boot with windows 10 on 256GB nvme SSD and 495 GB default partition made by ubuntu for dual boot on the ...
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Unable to mount specify location
I used the same location before but can't mount to the same location after format.
mkdir /media/videos
mount /xxxx/by-id/xxx /media/videos # no error message.
rmdir /media/videos # can delete. there ...
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fstab mount no longer working
I have an ubuntu share that I use infrequently. The last time I used it was about 11 months ago. At the time it worked. I tried searching a solution but I could not find a solution.
I have the ...
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Can't do anything (reformat, mount) with cheap 128 TB external hard drive
I have a box I built up with an AMD FX-8350 CPU, several SATA/SSDs on the board and plenty of memory (I think 32 GB). I am running Ubuntu 23.10.1. So far everything sounds great right? Well, ok, now ...
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Problem with mounting USB drive
I have occurred a problem with mounting USB drive. About a week ago there was no problem with it. Error as in pic. When I mount it manually through terminal it works fine, but I have to do it every ...
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CIFS Windows 10 mount is read only
I am running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS trying to mount (CIFS/Samba) an NTFS drive on Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.3693). I actually have it working on one of the Windows drives, but have run ...
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No connection to local NAS after upgrade from 18.04 to 22.04
Dear AskUbuntu users,
I recently upgraded my Kubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 and then 22.04.
My mounting script for my NAS WD Mycloud stopped working. I investigated and here are my findings:
I can ping the ...
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mount.nfs: Connection timed out error when trying to add and nfs drive to Ubuntu server
I am currently running Ubuntu 22.04.03 and i am trying to connect an NFS drive from a WD PR4100 nas.
The annoying thing - i had this all working yesterday, then today it just wont connect. I am using ...
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External hard drive that always used to mount read-write when plugged in now mounts read-only
I have an external hard drive that I use for backing up data. I bought and configured it several years ago, and since then it has always mounted read-write whenever I plug it in. Recently, though, ...
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How to use a large external drive in WSL with reasonable performance
I have a 250GB WSL 2 partition running Ubuntu (on Windows 10), inside which I do my development. I'm working with some files that are too big for this partition. I have attached an external 6TB USB ...
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How do I get cifs mounts to not have all the files owned by root?
I have researched this problem and found advise to use the uid argument, but it is not helping.
/etc/fstab:
//192.168.0.234/Backups /home/mark/Backups cifs vers=3.0,credentials=/root/.smbCredentials ...
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MOUNT.NTFS consuming almost 100% CPU when sf2 or sfz file loaded on Bitwig Studio 5.0 from internal SSD
MOUNT.NTFS process is consuming almost 100% CPU when sf2 or sfz file is loaded on Bitwig Studio 5.0 from an internal SSD. Not just for files which are big but even for small files like 10 MB, MOUNT....
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how to fix this location could not be displayed error on Ubuntu
I'm pretty new to Linux, and I have 2 normal NTFS partitions everything was working fine and I can easily mount and use both portions from Ubuntu Linux. but one day I was deleting a huge file from one ...
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Added new drive but it's stuck as "read only file system"
Bought a new drive. Expected it would be easy to install...
Shouldn't need to use commands for something every day users should be able to complete, so I followed this GUI guide:
https://www.zdnet.com/...
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When Synology NAS down, rsnapshot fills up my root partition
I am using rsnapshot to back up my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS workstation to a Synology NAS server. The NAS volume is mounted as /synology using the following entry in /etc/fstab:
synologynas.local:/volume1/...
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How to repair a partition damaged by a power outage
I was worked with VMWare and my system suddenly power off.
After I power on my system my virtual machine partition doesn't mount and return this error!
How can i fix it and recovery my files?
I use ...
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NFS mount issues on orangepizero3 ubuntu client
I have a NFS server running with a valid export.conf, 3 of 4 clients on the network are able to connect to this server without issue and can read / write.
the forth client (orangepizero3) is the ...
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How to mount a Windows folder on AWS Ubuntu 22.04
We have just upgraded our server from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04. We can no longer mount our WinFS machine. All machines are hosted on AWS.
~$ sudo mount -a
mount error: cifs filesystem not supported by ...
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Can't access windows 10 partition after update to 23.10
I used to be able to access a separate ssd for windows, but after updating to Ubuntu 23.10 it gives me the following error :
Unable to access location
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/abdelrahman/...
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Easiest way to make a new internal SSD writable?
I just installed and formatted a new internal SATA SSD for storage in my laptop running Ubuntu 22.04, but I'm not sure how to make it writable. It's formatted ext4, but I can't drag and drop any files ...
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Mount worked in 23.04, fails in 23.10
Did a complete wipe and fresh install going from 23.04 to 23.10.1 This shell scripted worked in 23.04
sudo mount -t cifs -o user=larry,pass=xxx,uid=1000,gid=1000 //10.0.0.21/Movies /smb/Helios4/...
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Restrict user to access other directory and file in NFS server
I have one NFS server which will share to mutiple NFS client. The requirment is isolate each cilent ,make sure they could not access other's file. But the problem is NFS export could not restrict that....
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Disk mount error after upgrading to Ubuntu 23.10
I have a computer with a 1TB internal drive which has always had Windows 10 running on it. Part of the disk is split into the C: and D: drives used by Windows. These have the names of Windows and ...
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