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Mounting USB drive on 3G dongle
I've got an Huawei HiLink E303 USB G3-internet dongle that I'd like to use to connect to the internet. I'm using Arch Linux. According to this page, the Linux drivers are actually on the device and ...
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Mounting from dolphin vs commandline
I have been wondering how this is possible (i.e. how this works internally). When you want to mount a directory you have to be root.
sudo mount /dev/something /mnt/somedir
I know you can get around ...
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Rhythmbox can't find music on my Android device
Rhythmbox on my Arch Linux shows my smartphone on the devices list, but it's unable to find any music on it. I installed mtp and mtpfs and also enabled the mtp plugin in Rhythmbox. I also added a ...
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mounting problem during installation of archlinux on dell xps one
I've been trying to install archlinux on xps one.
the screen doesn't work because it has intel g45/g43 express chipset.
I had to use nomodeset option as mentioned in the installation guide.
Arch ...
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Mount a folder on a drive in fstab. Move?
I'd like to make a temporary change to my fstab file so that my /home is on another drive. However, I don't want the whole partition to be mounted, but just a folder ("home") on that partition. I'm OK ...
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Where should I mount my external harddrive?
I've got an external harddrive that I'd like to auto-mount. It will be present most times when my laptop boots. Where is the "correct" place to mount it?
/media/my-hd: Will litter /media with an ...
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Mount ubuntu one or similar web storage services without their clients
I think the title is self explanatory. I want to mount a folder to sync with my Ubuntu One account. The only restriction is that I dont want to use the client provided. I use Arch Linux if it counts. ...
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Mounting USB drive that is not recognized
Using Arch Linux / XFCE, I frequently have problems with USB drives that are not properly mounted. Sometimes they automatically show up in Thunar and I can mount them with one click. However, at other ...
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Why is my fstab entry for an external USB drive not working?
I have an external USB drive which my system recognizes as /dev/sdb1. I want to have it automounted with 755 permissions on boot and shared over the network with samba. I created the mount point ...
