Questions tagged [fstab]
/etc/fstab is the configuration file which contains the information about all available partitions and indicates how and where they are mounted.
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WSL: Processing fstab with mount -a failed
When entering in my archlinux WSL with the command wsl -d Arch after a fresh install, (I completed a base install of arch linux in virtualbox. By exporting it as a compressed tar file, transferred it ...
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systemd-remount-fs randomly fails with "mount: /: mount point is busy."
I recently switched to a read-only root filesystem using Yocto (Kirkstone version) and use the Yocto volatiles feature to keep some directories writable - for instance the entire /etc, /home, etc...
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Disk mounts but when using fstab gives: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
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This might not be pertinent:
I installed a newly downloaded iso of fedora server 40 on an ssd and began to configure. So far so good.
One of the things we've found about ssds is they live a ...
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Duplicate entry in /etc/fstab
what should I do with the fstab, when I use a bind on a mounted device?
/etc/fstab:
UUID=1b8076d1-fe24-4027-b182-2a888bb367a7 /opt/wazuh-Logs ext4 defaults 0 0
/var/ossec/logs /opt/wazuh-Logs none ...
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Have drwxrwxrwx permissions on folder, but after mounting to it it becomes drwxr-xr-x which disalows members of the group to write. How do I fix it?
I have a folder under /mnt/ with drwxrwxrwx permissions and under root:root
I then mount a USB drive (exFAT) to this folder and it becomes drwxr-xr-x
The issue is that now I cannot scp to that folder ...
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fstab, mountpoint - what did I miss?
I can't figure out what I'm missing or done wrong.
lsblk dose not show the mount points(?)
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 ...
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CIFS fs does not wait for network despite _netdev?
I am running a Debian12 with systemd. The server's network is configured through (fixed lease) dhcp.
I am trying to mount a CIFS remote filesystem on boot.
So I added the follwoing entries in /etc/...
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Force reboot if `fstab` mount fails instead of going to emergency mode
I have a fstab with read-only root-fs
and also a rw /var mounted on a USB reader with a µSD in it.
Sometimes at boot time system fails to mount /var.
It looks like the system cannot find the ...
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Mount distant volume at startup with $ in the distant volume path
I can mount a distant volume using:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=username,domain=domain '//nasaddress/home$' /mnt/point
I would now like to mount the volume at startup so that is shows up in the ...
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fstab and systemd automount overlay
On an embedded device based on Yocto Linux my rootfs is RO, while I have an additional partition for RW data. Now I want to automount at boot an overlay onto /etc stored on a different partition. Here ...
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Umask questions in mount [duplicate]
I have a question regarding 'umask.' I have an extra disk on my Linux system, and I want it to mount during startup with the same permissions as '/home.' For example, my '/home' has these permissions:
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Arch Linux RAID working, but won't mount on bootup. Bootup broken now
I have a headless server running Arch and sharing a software RAID.
After what looked to be a successful system upgrade, bootup now fails due to a timeout when trying to load the RAID. I get the ...
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Building redundancy by creating multiple nfs mounts to a single location
I have been managing a small local Linux cluster for my lab, consisting about two dozens of Ubuntu Linux servers - half of those are headless servers (rack/tower), and the other half are used as ...
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Files created by user in a mounted partition show root as owner
I have a dual boot system (Windows 10/Archlinux) and I have created a NFTS partition which is mounted at startup via /etc/fstab so I can access it from both OS'es.
The fstab file shows that the ...
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Reboot into `initramfs` after altering partition table
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I recently upgraded my remote server contract with IONOS, increasing my hard drive space from 8GB to 80GB. I have an Ubuntu OS running bash.
I then went about extending my working ...
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