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Unable to mount disk image after creating in Arch

I have quite the problem right now. I have created a disk image of my Arch install by using this command sudo dd if=/dev/sdX bs=8M | pv -cN source | zstd | pv -cN zstd > out.img.zst, then ...
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Why is my LVM volume showing as being mounted multiple times?

Just noticed a weird thing in the output of lsblk: It shows that it’s mounted multiple times for each physical volume. It doesn’t seem to be causing any issues. But I’m very curious why it’s doing ...
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EndeavourOS/Arch Linux broken after power off. NVMe drive not detected by any method

After a forced power off, my system looks broken. The OS was installed in a BTRFS system. Booting EndeavourOS normally will hang with: “A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid/…” (forever) cat /...
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Moved /usr to another disk as it was getting too big but now my system won't boot?

Currently I have my arch install (pure arch + hyprland) installed so that my / (root) is on my NVME SSD (which has little space due to windows dual boot) but my /home directory is on my SSHD (hybrid ...
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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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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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Encountering "unknown filesystem type 'hfsplus'" when mounting external drive?

I'm running ArchLinux and when trying to mount a partition from an external HDD I encounter: mount error: unknown filesystem type 'hfsplus' Upon formatting the partition I encountered the same error ...
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Can't get access to HDD at all

I cannot get access to my internal HDD without sudo or root, tried mounting it on /media/disk, /home/username/data and /dev/data but it did not make a difference. I want to use it for storing my files ...
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Mounting a blu-ray disk on arch linux

I'm trying to mount a blu-ray disk on arch linux and so far I'm failing. According to google, my reader is capable of reading blu-ray and wodim also detects the device. $ wodim dev=/dev/sr0 -prcap ...
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Fstab: Set permissions of subdirectory

So I have this in my /etc/fstab: UUID=B6C6ECB5C6EC76D1 /windows ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,permissions 0 0 My ssh-folder is in this partition, as a result I need to set the ...
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SSH mount via fstab fails because of root ssh passphrase

At work, we have a dev environment I want to mount so I can work on it locally on Arch with i3 (Manjaro i3). I have SSH and an SSHFS mount set up on my devenv which runs without issues, along with ...
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Arch Linux - Cannot mount SMB Share with mount.cifs, but gvfs and smbclient work

I am trying to access a NAS over a Cisco AnyConnect VPN. I can access it fine on: Macbook (Finder's "Connect to server") Windows 10 (Map Network Drive) Arch Linux gvfs (thunar and gio mount) Arch ...
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"mount error(2): No such file or directory" error on attempting to mount NAS from Arch

I am attempting to mount my NAS on my Arch machine and receiving the below error: mount error(2): No such file or directory Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) Not seeing ...
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Automatically execute backup script when external hard drive is plugged with systemd

I have a laptop, an external USB hard drive and a backup script. Laptop runs Arch Linux. External USB hard drive is encrypted with LUKS. Backup script backups on a given mount point (/media/backup). ...
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Making manually mounted LUKS volume visible in Nautilus

In Unity under Ubuntu, when I mounted a volume under /media, then it was shown in Nautilus, as if it was mounted by gvfs. Now I'm running GNOME 3.20.1, which mounts its drives under /run/media/[user]....
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