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Mounting a disk image
I created a backup from my laptop using the following command:
# dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -1 - | ssh backup-server "dd of=kubuntu-disk.gz"
On the backup server (FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p4) I ...
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How to mount a Veracrypt volume on FreeBSD?
When I mount a volume (stored on external USB drive) on Linux I get the following error
> sudo veracrypt --text --mount /path-to-volume /mnt --pim 0 --keyfiles "" --slot 1 --protect-...
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How can I mount USB or EncFS resource as regular user?
How can I mount/unmount USB or EncFS resource as regular user?
Currently I have to use sudo.
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How can mount freebsd disk partition with read and write permission in deban? [duplicate]
My freebsd installed on /dev/sdb2,it can mount with read permission:
sudo mkdir /mnt/freebsd
sudo mount -r -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2 /dev/sdb2 /mnt/freebsd
How can mount it with read and write ...
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FreeBSD doesn't boot from the secondary IDE disk
I've installed FreeBSD-7.4 on a 2000 make PC (* specs below)
When the disk is connected to the primary IDE socket, the OS boots fine but when it's connected to the secondary IDE socket, it boots only ...
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How can I make file/directory/ramdisk be visible as USB-drive in Linux?
I have some common issue about mounting something not a USB-drive as USB-drive in Linux.
In that way I want ramdisk/directory/file to be seen as USB-drive in system so I could "insert" it in ...
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Cannot mount hdd
So I have a HDD which I have connected with an adapter via usb to my Ubuntu laptop. On connection a sound is made, but the disk is not automatically mounted.
After executing fdisk -l I get these ...
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FreeBSD Labeling Commands
I'm trying to understand how to use disks on FreeBSD.
I have read that Disk Labels can be created using 4 different commands:
[1]tunefs [2]newfs [3]glabel [4]gpart
I can understand how to use each ...
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FreeBSD can't mount home partition
I've been having an issue with my first installation of FreeBSD. As I always do in GNU/Linux I created separate home and root partitions. The issue I've been having is that my home partition doesn't ...
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Swapping a mounted drive between machines - is it possible?
Let's say I have a storage device called A.
I install A into my machine M1 (which contains a drive called B which is
a unix boot drive containing the operating system).
I then boot up M1 and mount ...
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FreeBSD mount_nullfs / nullfs results in Operation not permitted
I'm using FreeBSD as a local web server and I want to use SFTP to access the project files. I created a user, but I don't want the user to be able to navigate above their home directory.
User shell: ...
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Confused about using `setuid` on a FreeBSD mounted dataset to ensure all files/dirs have a fixed owner?
Initially I thought that what I'm trying to do was simple. But the more I look at FreeBSD man pages, the more confused I'm getting about whether it's even possible.
I have a zfs pool that is used for ...
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Meaning of statement that 'getcwd functions work correctly' in FreeBSD man page for mount_nullfs?
In FreeBSD, man mount_nullfs states that:
The primary differences between a virtual copy of the file system and a
symbolic link are that the getcwd(3) functions work correctly in the virtual
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Using a large number of nullfs mounts to create a virtual FS on FreeBSD - what are the practical limits + impacts?
I have a situation where I'm possibly going to create a virtual file system on FreeBSD, comprised entirely of nullfs mounts of selected "ordinary" dirs within my various ZFS datasets (and their ...
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Cannot mount USB on FreeBSD: Invalid argument
I'm trying to mount a USB stick on FreeBSD. The result of camcontrol devlist is:
root@machine0:~ # camcontrol devlist
<APPLE SSD SM0128G BXW1JA0Q> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0)
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