Questions tagged [mount]
Mount is the process of making available to the computer a new file system device, like a disk drive or a network share.
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How to mount a WSL2 folder as a Network Drive in Windows 10+?
I have created a shared folder in my WSL2 instance (Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS) which seems to be accessible and working. I created the folder in the /mnt/wsl location. After that, I can access the new folder ...
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How to remove automounting without system access on CentOS
I have a Nethserver server (based on CentOS 7) and recently one of the disks failed. There was nothing important on the disk so I just removed it.
But the disk was set to automatically mount to /mnt/...
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Is there a mount unionfs like system to manage permissions?
I have a cloud account with a folder on it. I mount it correctly locally using rclone on Ubuntu. Fine.
But all the files are owned by me, all with the same rights (let's say 0664). I would like to ...
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How to correctly secure a .VHD file on a multiuser system?
I am trying to create a .VHD that is mounted on boot with Mount-DiskImage. I don't want users to mess with it, so I removed all permissions except SYSTEM and Administrators who have full access.
Now ...
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Is there a way to mount an external drive when it becomes available in WSL?
I am using Ubuntu with WSL with a zsh/bash shell. My host OS is Windows 10. I already figured out how to mount a Windows external drive:
sudo mkdir /mnt/d
sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d
I rarely plug ...
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Mounting a SharePoint folder in Windows 10 without IE
There are multiple questions and tutorials that show how to mount a Sharepoint storage directory as network drive on Windows 10. Unfortunately all ways to mount a Sharepoint storage in Windows seem to ...
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Fix corrupted ntfs drive to save files [duplicate]
i have a ntfs drive that i often use on a mac, so i was trying to make it writable and followed several online tips.
inside etc/fstab/ there was a line LABEL=Untitled none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse but ...
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Veracrypt not mounting: Structure needs cleaning
I am trying to mount one of my file containers: it contains an ext-4 volume and the file is also on an ext-4 volume (using Linux).
The Veracrypt GUI makes a popup: mount: /media/veracrypt5: mount(2) ...
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How to permanently mount directory in WSL2?
I have a folder on Windows
C:/Users/macie/dev
and I want to mount it on /home/maciek/dev on WSL (Ubuntu).
It stops working after restarting Windows. How do I make the mount permanent?
Here's my /etc/...
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How to safely edit files in mounted BTRFS?
I broke my Manjaro Linux by putting wrong value into /etc/environment.
I've booted from Manjaro live usb and mounted my partition using "Disks" utility (also tried sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 ....
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USB/USB-C combo flash drive mounts and works on Windows and Android, but not macOS
I have a flash drive that supports both USB and USB-C. The problem with this flash drive is that it works on Windows, but not on macOS. Specifically:
The drive is exFAT-formatted and does not have ...
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How do I debug a mount failure with permission denied even tho I running with sudo?
How do I debug a mount failure with permission denied given I ran it with sudo?
Why would a sudo command ever result in permission denied?
$ cd ~
$ mkdir foo bar
$ sudo mount --bind ./foo/ ./bar/
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Timeshift and btrfs. Recovery unable to mount /home
I am using btrfs (which seems integral to the question).
Upon recovering with timeshift and rebooting, I am encountering the following error
[Failed] Failed to mount /home.
[Depend] Dependancy failed ...
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Permission denied when executing bash scripts on secondary drive after reboot
I have my primary (a NVME) and a secondary (Maxtor SSD) drive. I keep my work and some games in the second one.
When I boot or reboot to my system, which is KDE Plasma (version 5.25.2), my secondary ...
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Trying to Mount external USB drive with NTFS partition in WSL, I get error 19
I'm Trying to mount an NTFS partition in WSL. But when I'm following the procedure described in Microsoft Docs
wsl --mount <DiskPath> --partition 2
in wsl I get the following error:
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Mounting .iso image in Linux Mint with incorrect filename encoding
I am trying to mount some ISO files but have filename encoding issue. The .iso file in question is here: https://archive.org/download/cpcfan-200510b/200510B.iso
Mount command and incorrect filename:
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Synology : How to force reconnection of remote folder
I've a remote folder in the synology mount list that I need to manually reconnect every day to have access to it, otherwise it's not accesible.. (so go to File Station > tools > mount list ; and ...
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Can't Mount USB drive FreeBSD
I've been trying to mount a USB drive to my FreeBSD install for an unreasonable amount of time now to no avail.
At this point, I have looked at countless forum posts and manual pages and I am not ...
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Access/Mount read-only WebDAV (Hetzner Storage Box)
I have a Hetzner Storage Box. One of the features it offers is `sub-accounts' that have their own username (u000000-sub1) and password with the root being a sub-directory of the main account. The main ...
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Access automatically mounted owncloud/nextcloud mountpoint in gnome
In PureOS (Gnome desktop) I have added an Owncloud instance (by using the Nextcloud configuration panel). Where do I access the folder I can reach by Nautilus via bash? In other words: Where is the ...
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mount bind inside container is not reflecting outside container
I am trying to bind host dir to some dir inside container and expecting changes done inside container should reflect on host.
Here is the steps I have followed
created /hostdir on host and run ubuntu ...
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Non-empty mount points with btrfs (SLES15): Are they needed?
I have many years of UNIX experience, but I think i made a fatal mistake:
Seeing messages during boot about non-empty mount points, I took the chance to clean them up while migration a system to a new ...
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I can't mount my USB drive on my KDE Neon system
I just logged out and logged back in with another user profile on my Neon system.
When I plugged my flash drive into my laptop, the file manager didn't see it. I noticed that it was unmounted. I tried ...
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code=exited, status=1/FAILURE on mkfs.ext4 in Ubuntu
I stopped this service and now when I attempt to start it I get the following error:
Is there a way I can find out why the first process is failing?
systemctl status crmpicco-admin.service
● crmpicco-...
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How to encrypt cifs mount password?
In my /etc/fstab, I have credentials=/etc/cifspw, but the cifspw file is in clear. Is there a way to encrypt this file so that the username and password are not in clear, and still be able to mount ...
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Find device node path of the last inserted USB drive
To eventually put into a bash script and/or Makefile, I'm wanting to find the device node path of the last inserted USB drive on a Debian system.
It will most likely be something like /dev/sdb, but ...
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How to format usb stick to respond to bash mount script?
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Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS (Focal Fossa)
GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)
List all drives: UNmounted and mounted
lsblk --noheadings --raw | awk '{print substr($0,0,4)}' | uniq -c | grep 1 | awk '{print "...
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Mount of shared windows drive in /etc/fstab failing
I’m having problems mounting /mnt/data on my newest vmware VM. I’m not sure what next to try next to get /mnt/data to show me my shared folder – I’m doing it through /etc/fstab in Ubuntu. So I ...
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Need ansible task to open CIFS share on localhost
I an creating a "recovery" ansible playbook, and I need to
link to a read-only share on the backup machine so I can copy files.
The share on the backup machine is //io.hcs/backup. In windows ...
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Switch to a filesystem with more memory
I am relatively new to linux, but am working on a remote server.
Here's the output of df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 29G 1.9G 28G 7% /
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a usb flash drive shows sandrive.lnk when i mount it
i have a usb flash drive that contains multiple folders and app.exe, when i mount it, it only shows usbflashdrive.lnk(nulldll32.exe) when i double click on it, it shows me the folders inside and i can ...
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External Drive Shows in Sys.Profiler but Won't Mount/absent from DiskUtility (OSX 10 & 11)
I have a Sandisk 1TB Extreme USB-C external SSD that I bought and filled with an important 900GB dataset on about 16 months ago. I have not used it since. I have probably updated my mac OS to several ...
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How to mount NTFS in Linux without root password
I want to mount/umount a 3rd hard disk (with a NTFS filesystem) under Linux (OpenSuse (Leap15.2)) only as needed and as a normal user. But without entering my root password every time. So far I have ...
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Ansible roles supposed to install different mounts dependent on subnet, install all mounts on anything
My ansible script is doing a great job at putting all the mounts on any system I specify. But my intention was to install mounts dependent on subnet.
People on .35 are privileged and need acccess to ...
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Folder share from windows 10 to ubuntu 20-04 - mount-error-13
My apologies in advance if this sounds like a really daft question but I don't even know where I am going wrong here is my situation:
I have 2 laptops at home connected to the same wifi network and I ...
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CentOS 7 to Windows, can list smb shares but cannot mount
I have been asked to check the mount a windows share on a CentOs7 box, before it was working and now not working anymore (no clue from the customer on what could be changed)
Local mount point /backup
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systemd twice mounts entry in fstab during boot, first attempt fails with bad option, second one works fine
Running Debian 5.10 within QEMU, I'm using the 9pfs file system to access files stored on my host system, as Debian comes with built-in support and QEMU supports that file system natively.
When booted,...
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Docker volume has permissions of Docker host user, not container user
I just moved my work data from a partition with Ubuntu to a partition with Fedora (more space).
I'm running a container where the container-user is root and the Docker-host-user is me (id=1000, gid=...
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How to mount overlay filesystem over root folder in linux?
I want to mount an overlay filesystem over the root folder.
My commands are:
mkdir -p merged upper work
sudo mount -t overlay ovr -o index=off -o lowerdir=\,upperdir=upper,workdir=work merged
I get ...
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NFS Permission Denied when mounting from WSL
I'm trying to mount a NFS folder in WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04
sudo mount singularity:/srv/Storage /mnt/storage -v
But it gives me an error
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting singularity:/srv/...
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Mount APFS on Ubuntu Error while using apfs-fure
I have an apfs disk with some information that I need to access on my desktop. I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and I have looked to this article to find all the steps I need to be able to do this (https://...
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Is there a way to preserve persistent device mappings (not drive letters) for USB removable drives in Windows?
This is not a duplicate of Is there any way to force Windows to map inserted USB drives using the first available drive letter?. I am not asking about assignment of USB drives to drive letters, but ...
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How to mount a zfs clone
Based on this instructions I should be able to make a clone of a zfs volume using commands like so:
$ sudo zfs snapshot -r zfs/logs/test@tmp-1236
$ sudo zfs clone zfs/logs/test@tmp-1236 zfs/logs/test-...
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How to bless folder as bootable snapshot in macOS 12.3.1 on an Apple Silicon device?
I just updated my Apple Silicon Mac to macOS 12.3.1. Before I used to be able to delete system apps by mounting an APFS drive by using the following command:
sudo mount -o nobrowse -t apfs /dev/...
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How to mount HD with ISO UDF volume in Windows
Under Linux I can create an ISO image with UDF filesystem, using K3b for instance.
Then I can copy such ISO image to the hard disk, using dd command for instance.
Connecting such preapared hard disk ...
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How to mount a cifs Partition for docker-compose?
I want docker-compose to mount one of the volumes to a mounted CIFS partition.
I used the seafile docker-compose file and changed the volumes to
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Drive /dev/sda with a swap file in WSL2
As NotTheDr01ds mentioned in this answer, /dev/sda in WSL2 is a virtual drive which Windows creates to store a swap file shared between WSL instances. But it isn't mounted by default when instance ...
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How to use nfs to mount my LAN disk into cloud server?
I have two machine.
one is in my LAN, which dont have public ip(cant access if not in my ethernet).
the other is a cloud server(aws), which can provide me a public ip address.
So, i can use autossh to ...
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Why do I get permission denied when mounting drive as root?
I am trying to mount a USB drive on my Linux computer. But whenever I try to mount it gives me this error:
root@penguin:~/drives# mount /dev/bus/usb/001/002 drive1
mount: /root/drives/drive1: ...
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New external drive already slow to mount and to read/write
I just bought a 5TB Seagate STJL5000400 external USB hard drive.
It takes at least 20 seconds to mount before being available to browse folders in the file manager and writing / reading is so slow.
I ...
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