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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Win 11 - wsl 2 : An error occurred mounting one of your file systems. 'dmesg' error
The problem appeared after Windows 10 to Windows 11 migration. Before I had no problem with Ubuntu / Docker or Virtual Box images.
Windows Version:
Windows 11 Version 21H2 (OS Build 22000.258)
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Mount a specified subset of filesystems with ONE command ("mount -a; but with pattern")
To mount all available (and not yet mounted) disks and filesystems/partitions, one can use
mount -a
However, what I want to do is to mount a specific subset of all filesystems/partitions, but not ALL ...
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Redirected Windows 10 Desktop Directory Resisting View Configuration
A user's Desktop directory / shortcut has been redirected to a network share, by specifying that network share in the directory's Properties > Location tab.
As noted, this causes the directory icon ...
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Fedora no permission to user home in mount
I created a user to use for backups with FTP. I moved the home directory to a mounted drive and gave the user permission to rwx using ACLs. User has a shell, user has a password but when I log into ...
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mount and /proc/mounts showing different outputs
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I have the following line in my /etc/fstab on three of my slackware servers:
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
All three show the mount options correctly in ...
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Cannot mount git dmg for installation - "no mountable file systems"
I am trying to install git from the pkg and I am running into a "no mountable file systems" error when I mount the dmg downloaded from sourceforge. When I try to mount it using the cmd ...
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How Can I Rename Google Drive for Desktop Volumes?
I am using version 51 of Google Drive for Desktop. It has four accounts added to it. Each account is mounted to MacOS (Mojave) as a volume. Each volume has an irritatingly long name like: accountname@...
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Use curlftpfs in a secure way, without plaintext and world-readable password (e.g. in /etc/fstab)
How to use curlftpfs, in a secure way? I mean without having FTP password in plaintext and world-readable.
I ask this because curlftpfs works running a command like that:
curlftpfs HOST /mnt/path -o ...
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Veracrypt Hidden Partition Error
I accidentally mounted the normal volume (10Gb) and moved some files into there (~15Gb). The hidden partition is 50Gb, and when I try to mount now it is giving me an error:
"You need to format ...
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How can I make a password protected Virtual Hard drive in Linux?
I have an Ubuntu server 20.4 installed in Virtual Box. I wanted to make a Virtual Hard Drive. So I made an Image to Hold Virtual Drive Volume and formated the EXT4 file system type in the image file ...
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What dictates whether I should use sec=ntlm or sec=ntlmv2 in my mount options?
I'm mounting the same cifs share on two Ubuntu machines using the same credentials. On one machine, I have to use sec=ntlm in the options, or it fails with mount error(22): Invalid argument; on the ...
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Why is my linux partition not mounting?
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
I have the following partitions:
Disk /dev/sda: 3.65 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
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umask=0 leads to mount error 32
Like the title say I have some ext4 that mounts well without umask but are innacessible because of permissions, but leads to error wrong fs type when mounted with umask=0
I'm on a live USB. So fstab ...
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Mount a detected but not listed in disks list SD card [duplicate]
My problem is a bit complicated to describe knowing that I'm not really a passionate about partitioning, but here's what I'm trying to do, What I tried and what doesn't work :
Goal
My goal is to ...
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No write permission for user to mounted filesystem in Linux
I've mounted a filesystem from an external drive. The problem is that users has no write permissions to that mounted volume, but root has. Filesystem type is exFAT.
The volume is owned by root. Output ...
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Samba share mounts as rw but non-root users can't write to it
On machine A with IP address 192.168.0.2, /etc/samba/smb.conf contains
[store]
path=/store
writeable=yes
valid_users=myusername
On machine B, when I I
mkdir /tmp/net/store
sudo mount -t cifs -o user=...
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Veracrypt with /etc/udev/rules.d
Consider that I have /etc/udev/rules.d/91-checkveracrypt.rules:
ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1234", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1234", RUN+="/home/user/tryveracrypt.sh&...
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Why can't I mount VirtualBox shared folder after Linux kernel update on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?
I have Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Previously, it used Linux kernel version 5.8.0-59 but after the kernel was updated to 5.11.0-25, I found that I am now unable to mount my VirtualBox shared folder due to an ...
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NFS - Access denied by server when mounting external drive
I have a fileserver and want to share an external HDD connected to the fileserver with my clients using NFS. I'm already sharing a few internal HDDs set up with ZFS shared to my hosts and they are all ...
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Running binary on mounted drive
I am curious to know if something is possible. What I want to do is run the binary of firefox that is installed in an old, half broke linux (solus) laptop that I can't boot into anymore. I want to run ...
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How to mount network drive and make it permanent using command line in mac?
I want to mount my network drive to my local folder in mac/osx.
I normally use mount_smbfs command but it won't mount automatically after restart or logout. For permanent option in mac :
system ...
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Can't see content (PDFs) in FTP when mounting via curlftpfs?
Can't see content (PDFs) in FTP when mounting via curlftpfs (onto a CentOS7 machine). Can anyone help debug what could be going on here? I am using the instructions here: https://linuxconfig.org/mount-...
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determining a linux filesystem drive types in powershell for automounting
I have the windows 10 Dev channel insiders preview (technically it's windows 11), I usually mount my ssd ext4 drives manually for wsl2
The goal: sometimes when you have something that won’t work on ...
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Hard Drive Recovery and mounting
I have an internal hard drive(SSD). This drive is not double booted, but triple booted (Windows, Ubuntu, Kali). It is partitioned in such a way that windows has 60% of the drive, and Ubuntu/Kali have ...
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Remounting root filesystem read only fails even though no files are opened for writing
I am managing a couple of devices running Debian Buster. They all have separate partitions for /, /boot, and /var (all ext4), and Swap, such that I can keep / mounted read-only during normal operation....
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How to mount an USB disk to a fix drive in Linux subsystem for Windows?
I'm working on Windows-10, where I have installed Linux subsystem for Windows (more exactly a Ubuntu).
I have mapped my USB drive on the D:-drive and Windows believes this to be a general disk:
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Debian: samba mount fail "mount error(115): Operation now in progress"
I have a sinalogy diskstation
I try to mount a share in debian
Throw error (problem is same if vers=1.0, and without vers)
$ mount -t cifs -o username=m.somogyi,vers=2.0 //192.168.0.200/Kozos /mnt/...
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Alpine hangs when trying to mount NFS
I set up my mount using ext4 filesytem and mount it with /etc/fstab
uuid=<uuid> /mnt/external ext4 rw,realtime 0 2
I set up nfs by installing the apk
apk add nfs-utils
I set up my exports file ...
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Is there a way to mount an NTFS partition read-only on Windows without Diskpart?
I have searched for a while and haven't found anything. Other than using diskpart to set a readonly volume bit. Which is persistent and modifies the partition table, which is not an option for me. And ...
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How to create a mounting point to a shared drive from a linux subsystem on a Windows machine?
I have a Windows machine (Windows-10). There I've installed the Ubuntu app from Canonical Group Limited, this allows me to have a Ubuntu subsystem, which I regularly use for grep, sort and other ...
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Why have I started having problems reading and mounting a disk in Windows 10?
Windows 10 Pro 21H1, Ryzen 7 5800X, ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING Rev X.0x, 32GB memory
I have two 8TB drives for archiving, one main and the other backup. I was using a USB bay because I wanted to keep ...
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How should i factory reset SD card / USB drive st MacOS can automatically mount it?
After taking SD card from my IP camera (some version of linux), the card could not be mounted in MacOS anymore. In Mac DiskUtils, the card was said to have 0 free space and 100% used even after ...
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Block device doesn't actually mount and no errors are reported
I'm debugging an issue with mounting a partition (from an EBS volume) on an AWS EC2 instance.
The device shows up as /dev/nvme1n1p1:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
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How to mount usb automatically by uuid instead of other?
I have updated the kernel till latest version,reboot it, find that my debian can't mount usb automatically,so i installed usbmount.
git clone https://github.com/rbrito/usbmount
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Automount using UUID and fstab does not mount automatically after reboot
I have a Debian 10 in which I have one external ntfs drive.
I have modified my /etc/fstab file to allow auto mounting of the drive liek the following:
UUID="45DA303C05C96FEF" /media/...
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how to mount/umount folder with bindfs/fusermount from root account without privileges?
This is my bash script into init.d:
#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
'start')
# mount
bindfs -n /home/my_user/.local/share/Cryptomator/mnt /home/my_user/drivefolder
;;
'stop')
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About root directory's filesystem and partitioning
Iam a new user of linux and I am trying to really get the hang of it before i use arch (I know it is a hard choice for a beginner but i love to dive in so i can understand more).
Basically, my problem ...
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Booting delay when auto-mounting Google Drive
I wanted to access my Google Drive via my terminal. To do this I installed Google Drive Ocamlfuse which seems to work fine.
At first I had to manually mount my Google Drive every time my computer ...
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Fixed “moved” volume on Mac terminal
I tried renaming my external hard drive. I incorrectly used the terminal command sudo mv /Volume/oldname /Volume/newname command instead of the proper command /usr/sbin/diskutil rename oldname ...
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Cannot mount SFTP URL on local FileSystem using curlftpfs
curlftpfs -o allow_other -o ssl -o no_verify_hostname -o no_verify_peer -o ftp_port=22 -o user='{{ ftp_user }}:{{ ftp_pass }}' {{ ftp_URL }} /mnt/sftp/
output is
Error connecting to ftp: Access ...
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How can I mount an external USB drive in a docker container?
I created a Ubuntu container with this command
docker run -it --entrypoint "/bin/bash" ubuntu:latest
I can't seem to mount an external USB drive. This works under the host machine, so no ...
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Is there a way to access files from one WSL 2 distro/image in another one?
I have several Unbuntu WSL 2 "installations" on my Windows 10 system and I'd like to be able to run tools like rsync and diff between them. Is it possible to mount/find where the files for ...
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If I mount a portable hard drive as a folder in Windows 10, can I still use that drive as a portable drive on another computer?
I'm running out of space on my desktop computer's hard drive, mostly due to my photos and Lightroom catalog. I would like to move the photos and catalog to an external drive, but would still like it ...
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Can't mount LUKS encrypted drive
Note: Cross-posted
I have a LUKS encrypted disk that I can unlock, but not mount:
$ sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 disk4tb
# enter key
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/disk4tb
$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/disk4tb /...
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How does re-installing an operating system on a primary drive impact data on mounted filesystems?
I have a machine with 3 separate SSD drives:
sda - Holds the operating system itself (Ubuntu)
sdb - Personal Data
sdc - Personal Data
sdb and sdbc are mounted drives.
Say I planned on wiping the OS ...
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mount.cifs: Any way to mount with kerberos using the machine credentials
When a Linux machine joins a domain, a computer account is created in Active Directory.
Can this account be used to mount a network share with cifs and Kerberos?
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How to stop Linux from auto-mounting USB drives?
I am trying to move my main desktop from a tower system to a NUC.
Both tower and NUC are running Linux Mint (v19.3 and v20.1).
The tower had an external toaster-drive socket into which I could plug a ...
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How to turn a Linux system into dual boot
I have a computer with two storage devices in it. I want to have two Linux systems in it, and I want them to be based on the same installation. One will live in a ext4 filesystem and the other will ...
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Cannot access a mounted drive in WSL
I cannot access my E:/ drive suddenly on WSL, do not know why. When I try to change the directory to the E by cd /mnt/e, it does not suggest any further subfolders in that drive. Also the ls command ...
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How do I test existence of two mounts in cron before proceeding with rsync?
I have two mounts, in ubuntu, (one of which is a finicky windows share I'm backing up), and to prevent messes, I'd like to check mount existence of both, before the next step. I tried:
if grep -qs '...
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