Questions tagged [automount]
Questions about mounting filesystems automatically, either at boot time or when plugging in
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Auto mount unprotected network drive
I have an unprotected(no password authentication required) network drive that I would like to map at start-up on Ubuntu desktop. I am manually mapping the drive to /mnt/drive, using the command sudo ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 - Nautilus - SMB mounts showing up twice on sidebar
I have an ubuntu 22.04 system (gobsmack) that has mounts to an SMB share \foosmb with three shares: alphashare, betashare, deltashare
When I mount the foosmb shares on gobsmack, the entries for alpha/...
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Automount encrypted Luks USB device when connected
how can I automount an encrypted USB device (e.g. USB stick) via key file, when connected.
What I did so far
It works during boot time. The device will be encrypted via keyfile and mounted in /mnt/usb,...
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How to automatically mount a removable USB device in a Docker Desktop Linux container
Problem: I want to run a Linux container via Docker Desktop, and have a removable device (e.g. USB stick) automatically mount within the container, when it's inserted.
Up until now, I've been using ...
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zfs drive (not root) not automounting on boot
I run ubuntu 24.04 and formatted a drive with zfs and it works as expected. But it is not mounted automatically on bootup. Sometimes it does and sometimes not. If i boot up another distro och boot ...
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Both SSDs are very slow
I have two SSD on my notebook as shown here.
My first SSD (ADATA SX8200PNP (42AATCTE)) is formatted with ext4 and ntfs and mounted with the options errors=remount-ro
The result from running hdparm is:
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Automount duplicates all mountpoints DOZENS of times
Coming from arch, I am using Ubuntu for a side project, and the automount behaviour is driving me insane. I have two internal hard drives, one with the system on it and a 640G one mounted at /media/...
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How to automatically mount a hard drive at runtime in Ubuntu 22.04 server
I found many solutions online, but each had specific errors or downsides, that made them unconvenient.
I want: On an Ubuntu 22.04 server, connect hard drive at runtime, not only boot, via sata and ...
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automount a partition of a USB stick in a persistent live linux made with mkusb
How to automount a partition of a USB stick at /media/lubuntu/name every time the stick is plugged into the PC when the /etc/fstab file is empty on every new boot?
I assume this is because I'm running ...
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How to automatically unlock on boot a Ubuntu encrypted boot disk drive?
Please, there is any way to easily auto unlock encrypted boot disk on Ubuntu, as we have using bitlocker on Windows? I saw this process, but I don't think that it will work (seems that I am not using ...
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Mount filesystem for a specific user at user login
I want to mount 2 existing ext4 filesystems for a specific user when the user logs in and ensure that they are dismounted when the user logs off. I am running on Ubuntu 22.04. The suggestions that I ...
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Nautilus: Automatically mount a bitlocked drived upon login
In Nautilus, when I click on "Other locations" then "Encrypted Drive", it gets unlocked and appears as a mounted drive in the list.
I would like that to be done automatically when ...
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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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How to set up disk automount in Ubuntu Server
I'm setting up a small home server consisting of a Raspberry with Ubuntu server.
Specifically, I installed
Ubuntu 23.10 (GNU/Linux 6.5.0-1007-raspi aarch64)
I'm currently manually mounting every ...
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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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