/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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Can I configure my Linux system for more aggressive file system caching?
I am neither concerned about RAM usage (as I've got enough) nor about losing data in case of an accidental shut-down (as my power is backed, the system is reliable and the data are not critical). But ...
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HDD allocation fstab
In my PC running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I have installed three SATA hard drives. Two of them are installed near a cooler. I want to physically switch two drives (one that is not near the fan should be moved ...
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Why was fsck priority introduced in /etc/fstab?
Inside the /etc/fstab file, in the sixth column, there is a number that corresponds to whether a filesystem should be scanned for errors. Possible values are:
0 - skip
1 - high priority
2 - low ...
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Can I include another file in fstab
Can I include another file in my fstab file?
I.e. can I have fstab execute lines from another file at an arbitrary point, and then return to the main file when completed?
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Partition not mounting from fstab
I have mounted a partition and add it to fstab file and then rebooted but I see that the partition is not mounted although it was added to fstab.
What is wrong, and how can I solve it?
fstab line:
...
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How do I add an entry in /etc/fstab for a windows share?
I want to be able to mount our file server's file share (on a Mac OS X server, shared via AFP and Windows File Sharing) on my Ubuntu 10.10 linux laptop. I want to be able to mount it as my normal ...
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Umount device after bind mounting directories: is it safe?
I have a home partition which is shared by mulitple distros on the same box. I'm using bind mounts from fstab. Each Linux install has something like this:
UUID=[...] /mnt/data ext4 ...
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how to prevent reboot being stopped by nfsmount?
I can't imagine there isn't a simple strategy to solve this issue of stale nfs handles preventing a machine from shutting down normally, but I'm not sure what that would be. It's pretty annoying to ...
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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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btrfs and the discard mount option on an ssd
I can't seem to find an answer to this so I thought I would ask here:
In /etc/fstab and when using the mount command in ext4 you would add the option discard to activate TRIM on an SSD. Similarly ...
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Recommended fstab settings
I made a new partition for my home drive by following this guide
I have no idea what the fstab setting it suggests mean:
UUID=???????? /home ext3 nodev,nosuid 0 2
I ...
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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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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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Why rootfs is mounted multiple times?
Here you can see two devices are mounted as root:
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs ...
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mount ramfs as user
My fstab entry:
none /home/jreinhart/ramdisk ramfs defaults,user 0 0
The directory before mounting:
drwxrwxr-x 2 jreinhart jreinhart 4096 Oct 17 11:31 ramdisk
The directory after ...
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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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How to mount some folders on a different partition
I recently got an SSD for my computer. Therefore I reinstalled my system and mounted / on /dev/sda1 (which is a partition on the SSD).
To protect the SSD, I managed to mount /tmp on the RAMdisk. ...
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Does the (source) device in a tmpfs type mount mean anything?
I just went into /etc/fstab (Linux) and changed my line for /tmp (on which a specific ext4 partition was previously mounted) to tmpfs. This was clearly a bit silly, but I wasn't thinking. Anyway, I ...
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Debian: Mounting NFS Volume at boot with fstab not working, How to change when this is attempted on boot
So there are a bunch of NICs and vlans on the server and after adding the last ones the auto mount of a network volume is not working. I can do it all right if i SSH in and use mount however it doesnt ...
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mounting local network folder in Ubuntu
I add a folder in /etc/fstab:
//172.30.12.37/test/ /home/my/test cifs user=afs,pass=123456,auto,exec,umask=002,gid=1000,uid=1000,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
Now test link can be seen in ...
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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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How to understand this fstab?
This is my fstab:
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Jan 12 02:12:44 2013
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), ...
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sshfs always asking for password in fstab?
I'm trying to enter an sshfs mount in /etc/fstab with the following line:
sshfs#oli@192.168.0.2:/media/usb0 /media/ExtHD fuse defaults,nonempty,allow_other 0 0
So that this volume is mounted at ...
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pmount - omit rules in fstab
How use pmount that it omit fstab rules? For example
# fstab:
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom ... (etc.)
# in terminal
pmount /dev/sr0 /media/xxx
# it will omit /media/xxx mount point and it will mount in ...
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How are NTFS drives handled by Linux? Nothing is in fstab yet it's automounted. Nothing in mtab yet it's currently mounted
I'm running Fedora 14 with the 2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686 kernel and Gnome 2.32.0. I have a few NTFS drives that are mounted when I start up. However, there is no entry for them in fstab and nothing in ...
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How do I mount an NTFS partition in /etc/fstab and prevent files/directories from receiving exec permissions when they're created?
I have an NTFS partition that I want to mount using /etc/fstab. I don't want any files to have executable permissions on this drive, so I wrote the following rule:
/dev/sda2 /media/sharedfolder ntfs ...
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5answers
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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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2answers
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Linux Mint: drives' map changing at reboot brings fstab error
I've set up fstab to auto mount media drives on a Linux Mint machine.
The OS is installed on a IDE/ATA Disk while 3 SATA disks hold data to share.
The BIOS has the ATA disk as first boot device.
All ...
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votes
2answers
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Option “user” work for mount, not for umount
I am experimenting mounting options for a program I am writing. I am running Linux Mageia 2.
I added the following line to /etc/fstab
/dev/sr0 /mem auto user,noauto, 0 0
and I removed all other ...
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1answer
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Do not halt the boot if an fstab mounting fails
I have this line in my fstab:
sshfs#ecarroll@o99:/opt/dealermade/ftp/inc /opt/dealermade/ftp/inc fuse defaults,idmap=user,users 0 0
For whatever reason it didn't work -- that's fine. How do I make ...
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1answer
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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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votes
1answer
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Error mounting drive with fstab
I have an small server in my house with an external usb 2TB hard drive:
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Data" UUID="eedc3098-221d-4800-b8b4-efa4fef23f5f" TYPE="ext4"
I have the next line in /etc/fstab:
...
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group option in fstab not working
I'm trying to take advantage of the "group" option for fstab entries and not having any success. From the mount man page:
Normally, only the superuser can mount filesystems. However, when fstab ...
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Mounting USB camera on Ubuntu
I am quite new at Linux and I have to install this SwissRanger camera on Ubuntu. I am trying to follow their USB mounting instructions and I got stuck.
From the instructions:
Modify the usbdevfs ...
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[mntent]: line 15 in /etc/fstab is bad
it works fine mounting manually from the cli
but when running
sudo mount -a
after editing the fstab im getting errors. It seems right to me, any one have a suggestion.
my fstab is:
# ...
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Mount a folder without noexec
Is it possible to mount a single folder without the noexec option. I have a situation in which a web app in the users home folder on the server has to be mounted without noexec to run correctly, ...
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How should I fix my fstab
I got 2 partition I want to mount
sdb1 which uses ext2 file system
sdc1 which uses ext4 file system
I added this 2 line on fstab
/dev/sdb1 /home2 auto auto,noatime,default 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /home3 ...
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Readonly in mounted partition's root
/etc/fstab
UUID=<someuuid> /mnt/data ext4 defaults,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
and
/mnt$ ll
drwxr-xr-x 2 manuel users 4096 15. Apr 18:25 data
/mnt$ mount -a
/mnt$ ll
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root ...
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Fix fstab to prevent boot failure
How can I fix fstab to prevent boot failure?
It seems that I have added incorrect record to /etc/fstab:
//servername/share /mnt/share cifs defaults,username=myuser 0 0
When I did ...
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vote
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When to mount /tmp (and other temporary directories)
When is the right time to mount /tmp (on Debian)? For /home I would not feel bad just to echo "/dev/foo /home type defaults 0 0" >>/etc/fstab - but can I be sure that /tmp is not used by any ...
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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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mount defaults and various filesystems
I read on the man page
defaults
Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, async, and relatime.
Do the options set depend on a mounted filesystem or not?
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Reset partitions numbers
I just decided to delete my Windows partition and only use Linux.
My old partition table was:
sda1: W7 boot partition
sda2: W7 partition
sda3: Linux
sda4: start of logic partitions
sda5: swap.
I ...
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Linux, fat32 and etc/fstab
I mounted a FAT32 drive onto my Linux computer using the following terminal command:
> sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/exampleFolderName -o dmask=000, fmask=111
I did this so I could share / edit ...
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config fstab file for a diefferent partition root directories
I have copied my /var /opt /usr directories to a newpartititon and now I need to configure the fstab file.
That is the new partition content:
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 20 12:16 opt
...
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UUID Of A drive that won't show up in /dev/disk/by-uuid or blkid
I have a USB drive that is not receiving a UUID. When I look at the contents of the /dev/disk/by-uuid it doesn't exist there. The dev point that the partition lives in is on /dev/sdb. I am able to ...
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What is the difference between 'nobootwait' and 'nofail' in fstab?
In this question I asked what how to not make a media failure halt the system boot process. However, I got two suggestions for fstab options
nobootwait
nofail
What is the difference between the ...
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Mount USB drive (FAT32) so all users can write to it
I have a USB FAT32 drive that is on /dev/sda2. I've mounted it as /media/bigdrive however, I get permission denied whenever I try to touch a file there as a non root user.
When I run mount I can see ...
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Should I run fsck on boot for an amazon ec2 image?
I have an Ubuntu micro instance running on amazon EC2.
Recently after logging in I was alerted:
*** /dev/xvda1 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
I've rebooted a couple times using init ...
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How to make an ext4 file writable on mounting by a user (not root)
I have been trying to write onto a newly created partition
My partition block is /dev/sda6
I am unable to write anything onto that partition. My Corresponding fstab file is this
...
