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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Using iptables inside an unprivileged (rootless/fakeroot) network namespace results in permission error with `/run/xtables.lock`
I'm using unshare to create an unprivileged network namespace:
unshare -Unr
This gives us a network namespace that should be capable of using iptables.
However upon running it:
iptables -L
We get:
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How do I restrict drive access from Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL with Ubuntu
I would like to set up WSL (Ubuntu) in such a way that the root user in WSL doesn't have access to all the drives in windows. Ideally they're able to do everything within the linux world, but aren't ...
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NTFS with UserMapping under Debian (LMDE 5)
I've a dual boot system with Windows 10 and LMDE 5.
I'd like to setup file permissions correctly when mounting windows NTFS partitions.
The .NTFS-3G/UserMapping was created correctly.
When using sudo ...
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cyclic dependencies with mount points, NFS shares and symlinks
As storage capacity is almost reached, I need to move the contents of the DOCUMENT_ROOT directory to a new disk.
As it is quite difficult to change the directory, I just would like to use the /var/www ...
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Linux mounts ext4 external drive read only
My laptop has two operating systems, Windows 11 and Arch Linux.
I have a external 4TB HDD formatted to ext4.
When I go into Windows, I normally disconnect the external drive, but not always because I ...
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Linux in QEMU / UTM VM: davfs2 mount works but has root access only
Using a Macbook M1 running Ubuntu 20.04 (arm64) under UTM virtualizer (is QEMU based) works fine, but I cannot access the host file system.
I shared a host folder using the UTM interface and that ...
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How do you configure Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) to use fstab to automatically mount a Windows Network File Share?
I'm trying to mount a windows share (SMB/CIFS) using a Debian 10 linux distribution running on Windows 10's Subsystem for Linux using fstab to automount on startup. My software specs are
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What if I mount two drives in the same dir
What happens if I accidentally mount two storage devices in the same dir? Sometimes when I work with multiple drives and constantly mount and unmount them I can by accident rerun same mount command, ...
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Use Windows share with "remote-to-remote" links in Linux
I mount a Windows share on recent Linux with default options that work.
But on the Windows share a new symbolic link with the name "archive" has been created that point to another Windows ...
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CIFS share can no longer mount
I used to have a CIFS share pointing to a Windows machine's C drive, however it broke some time ago (I assume following an update, but I don't use the share all that often, so I don't know exactly how ...
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How to mount Android 10 vendor image file / how to mount ext4 .img in write mode?
I'm getting the exact same error as How to mount Android 10 vendor image file, that is, when I decompressed system.new.dat.br from an Android ROM to a system.img and when I try to mount with:
sudo ...
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wsl does not have --mount option. So how do I mount a drive using wsl?
I am following the tutorial here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-disk
I can get the listing of my drives by running: GET-CimInstance -query "SELECT * from Win32_DiskDrive&...
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How to remove a volume that is linked to a disconnected network drive
I have a disconnected network drive that is linked to a volume (N:). It used to be linked to an NFS share on 127.0.0.1\data (using WinNFSd), but I didn't need it anymore.
I am trying to remove it, ...
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USB disk always mounted as offline. Anything that I can do about this?
My 2 TB 2.5" USB 3.0 external disk is never found by my TV. When I plug it to my Windows 10 Pro, it is mounted properly (Disk Management can see it), but "offline" (i.e. without any ...
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Difference between Openrack vs Openrack v2
The Open compute project has different types of projects for open rack.
The following is the types (family) of OpenRack mentioned in open compute contributions.
OpenRack v2
OpenRack
OpenRack v1
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Permission denied issue with fuse mount: "setting times of <FILE NAME>: Permission denied"
I have a Google cloud bucket being mounted on a RHEL8/FIPs GCP VM (gov't contract :().
It is a permanent mount point with this configuration in /etc/fstab:
<BUCKET_NAME> /usr/local/folder ...
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MacOs - Keep SMB server mounts alive on temporary VPN connection drops/reconnects
I am using SSTP VPN Connections (via SSTPc) on my MacBook and am mounting manually SMB Drives from the VPN Network.
Hwr, anytime my VPN Connection drops, my Mounts are unmounted and not there in ...
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Mount NFSv3 From Windows Server 2019
I have enabled NFS sharing on windows server 2019 using NFS version 3.
I have disabled both NFS ver 2 and NFS ver 4 via powershell:
Set-NfsServerConfiguration -EnableNfsv2 $False -EnableNfsv4 $False -...
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mount operation not permitted in ChromeOS developer mode
I want to install texlive on my Chromebook by enabling the builtin developer mode of ChromeOS, which runs debian on a virtual machine. So, I downloaded the ISO file of texlive from here. The problem ...
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Veracrypt exFat inside Kubernetes pod
I have a working solution to run this veracrypt command inside a pod:
veracrypt --text --quick --non-interactive --create /media/vera --volume-type normal --size 200M --password 123456 --hash SHA-512 -...
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Mount SMB / New-PSDrive (PowerShell on macOS)
Our computing environment is primarily windows, but I work mostly from macOS. Typically, I enter-pssession to a windows server/workstation using -SSHTransport and am able to make use of any fileshares ...
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Wrong User OWNER on folder or file: docker run -v <host_path_dir_file>:<docker_some_path_dir_file>/ -- Not working for user defined in Dockerfile
Host OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)
Guest OS i.e. a Docker container running: OpenSuse 15.2
Docker Version (on Host): Docker version 19.03.5, build 633a0ea
On host, when I git ...
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sshfs permanent mounting without password prompt
I have two Linux machines
Linux 1
Linux 2
I mount a directory on Linux2 to Linux one as below:
sudo sshfs -o allow_other [email protected]:/usr/XXXXX/bin /opt/Project/MountHere/
This works, but ...
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How to do "cryptsetup luksOpen" and "mount" in a single command?
I currently have the following script. I run this manually when I need to mount the disk described. I don't need/want this disk auto-mounted on boot:
disk1="/dev/disk/by-uuid/84ea2a10-abcd-abcd-...
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Copying between 2 network mounted folders very slow
I have a NAS which has 4 volumes with shared folders. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 (running RPI OS Bullseye) which uses docker and various containers for various purposes. I have mounted essential network ...
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Can't go into Google Drive directory mounted with rclone: "Transport endpoint is not connected"
ls -l shows:
ls: cannot access 'gdrive-root': Transport endpoint is not connected
total 42M
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? gdrive-root
Trying to re-mount with the command used ...
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DIfference between `less mount` and `mount | less`
I was trying to look at the output of the mount command. less mount gave the following error:
(base) jafar_isbarov@jafar-IdeaPad-3-15ADA05:~$ less mount
mount: No such file or directory
When I ran ...
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Make write to sshfs atomic
I'm using sshfs to run some process on one mashine and store the result on another one.
The command I'm using to mount is sshfs user@host:/rempte/path /local/path.
The scrip I'm running creates a file ...
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Detect in Linux Bash if USB drive is unmounted and mount it automatically
My USB drive is plugged in to a server with Ubuntu system and constantly unmounts itself for no known reason.
I want to write a script in Bash which will be run frequently by cron.
My question is how ...
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How to debug nfs client connection timeout?
I have 1 nfs-server(10.192.244.109) & 2 nfs-client there.
On one client, both ok to mount the nfs-server directory with v3 & v4, while on another client, it's only ok to mount the nfs-server ...
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After removing lxc device, still managed to access device from its boundary directory
I am using Lxd container for my sd card access in Linux based device.
i mounted sd card with following commands
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash/sdcard.
lxc config device add dhaneesh2 sda disk path=/mnt/...
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how to force ubuntu disk image mounter to mount image files as writable?
i have an image and want to edit it a little for some configurations so that they will be available from first boot. but how? i opened the file but the mounted volumes are read-only. when i try sudo ...
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Can’t use sudo after umount —all
I tried to unmount all of my fstab mounts by using:
sudo umount --all
Right after that i tried to remount everything by using:
sudo mount -a
But got this error:
sudo: effective uid is not 0, is /...
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Ubuntu / systemd fails to mount bindfs mount on boot
On my Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS server running as KVM VM, I have defined 4 custom mount points in order to access the host's filesystem. Two of them are 9p mounts and two of them are bindfs mounts that are ...
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How to write and save changes to “/etc/fstab” after effectively breaking the “/etc/fstab” on my system. Can only boot to basic terminal
To make a long story short, and to focus the question, I basically need to get root access to my own laptop running Linux Mint to be able to save my changes to the /etc/fstab file.
More details:
I'm ...
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Why am I able to mount arbitrary TMPFS as an unprivileged user with unshare?
While messing around with unshare, I stumbled on the following behavior in an unprivileged shell:
foo@pc $ id foo
uid=1000(foo) gid=1000(foo) groups=1000(foo),27(video),97(input)
foo@pc $ unshare -r -...
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Cannot properly mount music CDs under Xubuntu Linux
I have three systems running Xubuntu:
Dell E5440 running 18.04
ThinkPad T420 running 20.04
Dell PowerEdge T110 (headless server) running 20.04
I am trying to mount the optical drive and I cannot do ...
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/dev/sdb read-only filesystem
I think I have pre-maturely ejected USB during a write operation. Currently I'm trying to use this USB image to write another USB image to it, so whether all the data gets erased from it does not ...
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Mount a Raspberry Pi OS disk image with PowerShell Mount-DiskImage
I'd like to mount the first FAT partition of a standard Raspberry Pi OS disk image (the Lite version) to make some modifications and copy additional files into it for the first start of the Pi. After ...
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How to chroot into a WSL installation form another WSL installation?
I want to chroot into my Kali Linux WSL from my Ubuntu WSL. I'm running WSL2. In Windows, I mapped my Kali Linux WSL installation (\\wsl$\kali-linux) to the drive K:. In Ubuntu WSL, I mounted the K: ...
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Why does my external hard drive mount as /media/TB1 instead of /media/TB?
I just added a new external USB hard drive and it's showing up in the system as TB1 when it is labeled both in the partition and in the /etc/fstab as TB. Why is this happening?
I suspect it may be ...
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Fix For Blanked Out UUID On Luks Encrypted Drive?
Problem:
When I mount a Luks Encrypted drive, the drive mounts, but I can't access the files.
The drive is the root drive. It has ElementaryOS installed on it.
It booted fine, until after doing some ...
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How to mount disc images privately in OS X
If I understand it correctly, the devices mounted in Mac OS under /Volumes are available to all users of the system.
This includes not only the internal hard drive, but also all external media, AFP ...
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Mounting 2 external drives always in the same way in Debian
I would mount on Debian (on raspberrypi with nextcloudpi) two external USB drives always in the same sequence (sda, sdb etc..)
Now i've attached one USB External Drive and Debian automap as
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I have 2 network interfaces in an Ubuntu 20.04 build, how can I force SMB/CIFS connections over the secondary network interface?
As the title says, I have 2 network interfaces in an Ubuntu 20.04 build - 1 1GbE link for internet etc. and a secondary 10GbE link that is directly connected to a file server. The 10GbE link has been ...
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Linux Kernel 5.15.1, fstab umask=0022, mount command shows fmask=37777600022,dmask=37777600022
I downloaded and compiled the linux-cacule (5.15 for native ntfs3 support) kernel from the AUR repo. Following the documentation here on the new ntfs3 mount option:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/...
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linux df -h not showing some info
I have Ubuntu 20.04 linux and I create a second disk, and second filesystem. Right now when I want to see info my second filesystem df is not showing. I use default mount specification.
df -ah
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Mount of device not owned by requested user
Using Ubuntu 18.04. When logging into a tty terminal of a PC, the dmesg lines
[ 83.966238] Mount of device (uid: 0) not owned by requested user (uid: 1000)
[ 83.966795] Reading sb failed; rc = [-1]...
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Ubuntu: Automount /etc/fstab with mount -a, does it disrupt already mounted devices?
Say I have /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc already mounted and I am currently copying files from one to the other. Can I safely edit /etc/fstab to also include yet unmounted /dev/sdd and do mount -a to mount it?...
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How to map user IDs on an NFS share?
I have succesfully mounted an NFS share from my remote machine to my local. However, the files I want to edit on the remote machine are all owned by root.
How can I mount my NFS drive so that my local ...
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