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Does mount always require root privileges?
I was under the impression that any sort of call to mount requires root privileges.
But recently I was told "You should instead create appropriate entries in /etc/fstab so that the filesystems can be ...
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automount nfs: autofs timeout settings for unreliable servers - how to avoid hangup?
I'm running a small server for our flat share. It's mostly a file server with some additional services. The clients are Linux machines (mostly Ubuntu, but some others Distros too) and some Mac(-Book)s ...
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Mounting USB disks automatically (How it works)
Background:
I am trying to mount a usb disk as read only but my ubuntu install is mounting it
rw when I plug the disk in.
I can unmount the disk manually and remount it manually as read only with ...
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Suggestions needed for udev, udisks, autofs, notification setup for a complete automounting solution on Linux
Continuing on Automounting plugged devices in linux, which left things a bit basic. Running Gentoo, I'm automounting a combination of local and network devices on my laptop with autofs-5.0.4-r5. Doing ...
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Triggering an action when a specific volume is connected
I have a USB key that contains my keepass2 password database and I'd like to perform some actions when it is plugged into my computer, namely:
Auto-mount it to some specific location
When the ...
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Automounting plugged devices in linux
Auto-mounting seems to be a bit of a messy thing in linux.
The options to automount ranges from autofs, udev, hal or even filemanagers.
What is the best-practice method to enable automounting on ...
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Detect if a (NTFS) drive is mounted or not. If not then mount it
I want to sync an USB drive with a folder located on a NTFS partition which is not mounted at boot time. I have found a command to do that: rsync -axu /media/USB/folder /home/user/folder. But I have ...
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Automatically mount network drive when available
I have a NAT drive, that is accessible via SMB. I have an entry in fstab to mount it at boot.
But if the drive is not switched on it is not mounted during boot and I have to manually mount later.
(The ...
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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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Automount not equivelent to mount?
I'm struggling to get automount to work as desired.
If I run the following:
sudo mount -t nfs server:/path/to/share /path/to/mount_point
I get the mount appearing fine.
However, if I add the ...
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How do you protect a plain text credentials file with the username and password?
I am trying to setup an auto-mounting network drive. The network drive requires a user/pass. In the man page for "mount.cifs" there are two ways to provide the user/pass.
[not recommended] put the ...
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Preventing mounting some partition by user (gnome+udisk)
I'd like to prevent automounting one partition (known UUID etc. ) on one external harddrive. Others should be automounted. Distro is 'modern' (uses lots of beta software) and uses udisk+udev for ...
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Udev rule is not being used?
I'm setting up udev to handle my external USB hard drive when it gets plugged in and removed (no mounting yet). So far, I've made two new rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules to log ...
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Automount USB drives with no GUI requirement (halevt replacement)
For minimal installations of Debian, I have been using halevt to enable automounting of USB drives. Halevt is reliable and requires no configuration aside from installing the package. Now, halevt has ...
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How to mount removable media in /media/<LABEL> automatically when inserted, without any desktop environment?
I have a Debian sid system (Wheezy), without any desktop environment (and no Xorg at all).
I can mount my SD-cards, USB sticks, external HDD by label into a specified directory in /media/ manually ...
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fstab not mounting a disk on boot
I'm running Arch Linux on a Macbook. I want to automatically mount my Macintosh partition when booting Arch, so I added the following to /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda2 /media/Machintosh hfsplus defaults 1 2
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Mount and automount and security problems
Are there any security problems related with (auto)mounting device?
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When networkmanager is used, OpenSuSe gets stuck during boot for 10 minutes
I have this problem on all machines that I every installed (different configurations, different geographical locations, even different OpenSuSe versions) and it's extremely irritating.
When I turn on ...
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USB storage devices aren't automatically mounted when inserted on a fresh install of Debian 6.0
I installed Debian 6.0 (squeeze) a few days ago on my machine. I installed the default GNOME desktop, standard settings. Unfortunately, I just noticed that when I plug in USB storage devices (external ...
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Disable /net ghosting for autofs5
I recently have been trying out Arch Linux. It seems that their autofs has a usability bug, although I confess that I'm new enough to Arch that I may be missing something horribly obvious.
I want ...
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Error mounting drives
I am not able to mount the disk. It is showing error.
Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sda3: Command-line `mount "/media/tusharmakkar08/Local"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: [mntent]: ...
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Can I easily remount an external USB drive without unplugging it?
Sometimes, a USB drive (or equivalent) that I have plugged in to my machine gets unmounted. Now, I know I could unplug it and plug it back in to remount it, but is it possible to easily do it from ...
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What is the difference between a symlink and binding with fstab?
In Eric Hammond's article Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with EBS he shows how to add a second drive (/vol/) and then progresses to move mysql's config and data there.
/sdh gets mounted as /vol by ...
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NFS mount to a subdirectory of already mounted directory
We have a strange scenario (AIX 5.3) -
There is a directory /mnt to which an NFS share from windows server1 is mounted
Then there is another directory /mnt/subdir1 to which NFS share from windows ...
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What is the service that's responsible for automounting a USB drive in CentOS 6.4?
I know of the legacy Linux way of mounting a USB stick or drive: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/
But in some CentOS 6.x installations I saw, you just insert the USB stick and CentOS automagically mounts it, ...
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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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Nautilus, mount ISO file with right-click menu
I am using Nautilus now, and back then when i was using Ubuntu i could right-click on an ISO file and automount it without the need to issue any command.
But now i am using Nautilus in Archlinux and ...
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Automount external storage as user readable and writable in Debian XFCE?
I have Debian Wheezy installed with the latest XFCE desktop environment.
In the XFCE settings, I specified that external media be automounted upon insertion.
However, when I plug in my USB stick, it ...
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Auto-mounting to a directory other than /media in Fedora 13
I am using Fedora 13. I need to be able to configure how media are mounted automatically. For an example, I want to change the parent of all mounted media to be a directory other than /media. All the ...
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Auto mount cd or dvd on CLI based ubuntu server
I am using Ubuntu server as a samba server. The solution I am looking for is whenever the disks are inserted (cd or dvd) they should get auto-mounted to /cdrom directory. Are there any tools for ...
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No access to symlink folder on NTFS partition
I am using an NTFS parition for storing data I like to access both from Ubuntu and Windows 7. On my Ubuntu HOME partition, I like to link the folder Assets in order to access it from an application ...
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Automounting USB sticks on Debian
I'm running Debian Squeeze on a plug computer (so SSH only, no GUI) and what I'm trying to do is get it so that when a USB stick is plugged in, it gets automatically mounted.
What I've done is ...
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Mounting all partitions on hard disk automatically on Linux Mint
Issue
I have a Linux Mint installation. Every time that I boot, I need to manually mount the two partitions on my computer(New volume D and Drive C). If I don't do this, these drives don't show up ...
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sda and sdb block specials point to same device and get mixed up (hardware RAID doesn't work after new installation of 12.04)
I just installed the latest Ubuntu 12.04 and obviously it screws something up. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the fact that I have a Raid 1 but at the moment, I have sda and sdb which ...
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Device is Mounting as Read Only (Can Copy Files as Root)
I am attempting to mount my Amazon Kindle, 3rd Edition. It automounts correctly and when I run mount -l, I get the following output:
/dev/sdg1 on /media/usb0 type vfat ...
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Mounting Windows share on startup without storing password in plain text
I have the following in my /etc/fstab on a Red Hat 5 system:
//share/folder /mnt/folder cifs username=<my username>,password=<my password>,ro,soft,nounix
Can I replace this with ...
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How to mount a USB stick in FreeBSD?
I am running a FreeNAS (FreeBSD version) on a DELL R310, but when I connect a USB stick it does not automatically get mounted. The same stick does get automatically mounted in CentOS/Fedora.
How do I ...
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Prevent specific USB device from automounting
I have a SD card which is always inserted in my SD-card slot. However, I do not often use it (but do not want to take it out). Currently, it's being auto-mounted every time I start my computer. I feel ...
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Running a command when a CD/DVD/BD inserted
This seems like a simple question to me, but after two nights of searching and tinkering, I haven't been able to find anything promising.
I am running a headless Ubuntu server. I want to be able to ...
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Is autofs the only open-source choice for mounting nfs and/or cifs
I've been using autofs for a number of years and was wondering if there is an alternative to autofs that would handle cifs/smb shares in a more interactive way?
When I say more interactive I'm mostly ...
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How Do I use autofs to map a USB drive by its ID?
Goal
I have a USB drive -- let's say the drive's ID is /dev/disk/by-id/thediskid
I would like to mount the drive -- by ID -- to a folder (let's call it /MOUNT_FOLDER)
Question
What is the best ...
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Automounting in KDE-3.5.10 without HAL
community!
I have Gentoo(amd64) installed with KDE-3.5.10 desktop from kde-sunset overlay. Recently I have upgraded xorg-server from 1.7 to 1.9 and now want to extinguish hal completly. The only ...
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Stop USB mobile broadband automatically mounting as drive
UPDATE 3:
This is what I get from lsusb:
oshirowanen@laptop:~$ sudo lsusb
[sudo] password for oshirowanen:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 19d2:0031 ONDA Communication S.p.A. ZTE MF636
As I have tried the ...
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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 ...
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How do I stop thunar trying auto-mount a partition
When I plug in SIPOD, my pet ipod, thunar tries to auto-mount two partitions instead of one.
This annoying pop-up is starting to kill me:
This is what /dev/sde looks like:
$ sudo file -s ...
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Auto mount HP USB Flash drive Error
I am using RHEL 5, If i plug my USB Flash drive i'm getting Error message as follows,
This much days It work smoothly, And now it working with windows XP well.
Where is the problem ? How can i ...
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How to automatically mount remote directories on login / startup
Everytime I boot, I use sshfs to mount remote directories. I am thinking to put these short commands in my .bashrc, but that does not seem to be The Right Way™.
What is the proper way to run sshfs on ...
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Can I automate mounting a cifs share without storing my password in plaintext?
I currently use a script which contains commands along the lines of
sudo /sbin/mount.cifs $SERVER_SHARE $MOUNT -o username=$DOMAIN_$USER,uid=$USER,gid=$USER,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775
to mount my ...
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Debian squeeze post-installation automount problem, USB port confused for /dev/cdrom0
Usually when I install Linux on a laptop, I use the following command
$ dd if=installcdrom.iso of=/dev/sdX
where sdX is the inserted, unmounted USB stick (sdb usually), and installcdrom.iso is a ...
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Comprehensive /etc/auto.disks script for autofs that takes into consideration all mounted disks, including NTFS and FAT32?
Does anyone have a more comprehensive /etc/auto.disks script for autofs that takes into consideration all mounted disks, even NTFS, FAT32? So all that's needed to mount any attached drive is ls ...
