mount command, allows mounting of a file system at a specified point in the file hierarchy.
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How can I create an encrypted, file-system–agnostic, mountable volume?
At work, we have an iMac (running OS X) that shares a partitioned hard drive over the network. I'd like to back up to my partition from my Linux machine. I've attempted connecting via cifs, then ...
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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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Why aren't CD image files listed when mounted in current directory?
When mounting a disk image in the current directory using :
sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 wall.iso ./
Listing files in current directory only returns wall.iso .
To view the actual files on the disk ...
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Resolving an alias to a remote server
I have what I think is called an IP alias, which is used to access a Windows file server from a Unix server. The path on Unix looks something like:
/folder/file.txt
which is somehow resolved as:
...
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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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Problems with accessing mp3 player files
I have problems with accessing my mp3 (sansa clip) on my linux mint. When i plug in player, it does mount, but seems to be empty - well ... there are built in directories and config files, here goes ...
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Installing a secondary drive in CentOS 6
I am new to Linux and CentOS so I may not be sure of the exact question to ask. It may be best for me to tell you what I have done. I installed a secondary 500gb HD to use for file share storage. I ...
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What are these commands for?
Yesterday I had to install a Windows with its Grub override.
Well, it's not the first time I had to fix Grub, so I used LiveCD, mounted the root partition (I don't have boot, just / and home) and ran ...
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Why can't users besides root create files in a samba share?
I am sharing a directory on one Red Hat machine via samba, and mounting it on another Red Hat machine with the following command:
mount -t cifs -o guest <remotepath> <localpath>
The ...
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Why could mount.cifs mount an empty folder?
gentoo, kernel 3.7.10
samba 3.6.12
SMB/CIFS server: Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2
I've encountered the situation when mount.cifs behaves differently from smbclient program.
The following ...
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Linux, how to change HDD state from ReadOnly after temporarly crash?
At this time no ansver for this problem.
Usually after some problems with readings or writings to block device, kernel decides to switch flag for WHOLE DEVICE as read-only. After this any writings to ...
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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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Unable to change permissions of file system root
When I write ls -la the output is :
tusharmakkar08-Satellite-C660 tusharmakkar08 # ls -la
total 88
drwxr-x---+ 10 root root 4096 Apr 18 19:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 18 17:35 ..
...
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How do I mount a CloneCD .img file?
CloneCD is proprietary. I have a bunch of images that were created with in. Inside of the .CCD file it says.
[CloneCD]
Version=3
How do I mount this?
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External HD: “Permission Denied” on file write
I have a 3TB external hard drive that I plan to use for backups. I originally tried formatting with cfdisk, until I learned that only GPT supports 2TB+ partitions.
So I converted the drive to GPT ...
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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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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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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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USB mount doesn't work on Centos 6.4
I have a problem. After an update, my USB drives are not mounted automatically and I'm unable to mount them manually...
The output of my fdisk -l command is:
Disk /dev/sdb: 15.8 GB, 15762194432 ...
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cannot mount .img file - “not a directory” error
I try to execute the following command on an ubuntu 12.04 system:
sudo mount minix203.img -o loop -t minix /mnt/myminix/
in order to mount an .img file with minix partition; and get the following ...
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How do I name a partition?
Currently, I have a partition where Crunchbang is installed, which shows up as a folder in Mint named either 0d71227f-66fc-45ac-8bfc-93280b93dc8c or "10.0 GB Volume".
First question is, of ...
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Check if folder is a mounted remote filesystem
What is the best way (reliable, portable, etc.) to check if a given folder is on a mounted remote (nfs) filesystem within a shell script?
I am looking for a command that would look like:
...
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file still read-only after a mount --bind from a rw partition
I use mount --bind to "overlay" a file from one ext4,rw filesystem onto another file in ext4,ro filesystem. For example, /etc/hosts is on a read-only / partition, but I have another partition where ...
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Correct way to mount a hard drive
I have a 2nd hard drive SDB but not sure how to mount it under linux.
mount -a did not seem to mount all.
Also would like to mount this RO for recovery.
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User mounted secondary drive as /var
I have a drive that someone else mounted using
mount /dev/sdc1 /var
At some point they complained that all the data was missing
Now:
mount /dev/sdc1 /media/testdrive
df -h shows 130GB used
du -h ...
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Can you mount UFS partitions made in Solaris (Sparc) on Solaris (x86)?
I am reading about Endianness and it seems both systems save their data differently.
Sparc uses big endian and x86 uses small endian, meaning the byte order is different.
That makes me wonder... is ...
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How to mount samba rw because everything fails
I'm trying to mount windows share on my laptop and everything mounts ok but somehow I get permission denied when I try to create new file inside mounted folder. I tried noperm, uid, gid, noacl etc. ...
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Listing both ls information and mount points of a directory?
On my Ubuntu Natty, typically all new drives inserted (e.g. USB Flash thumbdrives) are mounted under /media. So, on my system, I can do something like this:
$ mount | grep '/media'
/dev/sda6 on ...
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Mount 2 directories on other servers to the same partition of local server
I have 3 servers, same OS (redhat 5.5 x64). There's the same package installed on these servers. Server 01 and 02 store their files at the directory /A (cause they use the same package, the directory ...
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What's the use dirsync option for mount?
Today I stumbled upon this mount's option:
dirsync
All directory updates within the filesystem should be done synchronously.
This affects the following system calls: creat, link, unlink, ...
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unionfs filesystem
I recently learned about unionfs and aufs and would like to put it to some real use. The scenario I have in mind is the following. Boot a machine with ubuntu on it which will serve as our base. Make ...
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Error while mounting directory from host via NFS
I've been looking around the site but I couldn't find anyone with the same problem.
On VirtualBox, I have a machine with IP *.28 and another one with IP *.20.
The latter should mount a directory ...
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What is the fastest way to extract an ISO?
Currently I'm mounting an ISO to a (readonly) directory (using mount -o loop command) and then copying the contents to another normal directory. This takes lot of time as the ISO is large. Is this the ...
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Is disk space wasted when an ISO is mounted?
When we do mount -o loop filename.iso /path/to/mountdir, is twice the memory required to store the files? If no resources are used, can I mount hundreds of ISOs at a time? As in, is it like a softlink ...
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/etc/vfstab in Solaris 11
I would like to mount a folder from the remote server 10.12.13.2.
When I type
Mount -F nfs 10.12.13.2:/username /remote/username
The folder username gets mounted in the directory ...
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NFS server optimization for maximum performance
I'm looking for maximum of performance for a NFS mount.
I'm on local network, it could be completly unsecure, the performance is the most important in my case.
What I already found :
In /etc/export ...
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LXC: How can I mount a drive/directory without restarting the container?
If I configure LXC's fstab and restart, there's no problem with the mount, but do I have to restart?
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LXC: How do I mount a folder from the host to the container?
I'm trying to mount a folder on the host to an LXC container.
The host has a folder /mnt/ssd/solr_data created (this is currently on the root filesystem, but later I'll mount an SSD drive there, so ...
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Obtain device name and mount point if partition label is known
How to obtain the partition device name and mount point when the file system
label is known?
There are several possibilities:
Linux
File system label to device name
The device name can be obtained ...
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Can the same ext4 disk be mounted from two hosts, one readonly?
I know that mounting the same disk with an ext4 filesystem from two different servers (it's an iSCSI vloume) will likely corrupt data on the disk. My question is will it make any difference if one of ...
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Why is my unmounted USB disk still seen by `fdisk`?
I've mounted my USB disk to /mnt/kingston/ dir, and umounted it from there by typing in umount /mnt/kingston/.
But I can still see my USB disk after issuing the fdisk -l command. Why?
If I type ...
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fstab not mounting VirtualBox shared folder?
I have a virtual machine here which I use for development, so as not to mess anything up in my existing environment.
I've made a share named "web" available to the guest OS (Ubuntu 12.10 Server) ...
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Moving stuff off of SSD to HDD after installation. Using mount --bind? LiveCD?
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my SSD. /dev/sda1. No other partitions. No swap.
Then I went about reading how to optimize usage, and have come to the conclusion I want my /home, /var and /tmp mounted on ...
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Span a directory on an SD card and an attached USB stick
Can I span a folder on the SD card on my Raspberry Pi with a folder on an attached USB device?
I'd like to basically extend the size of a directory by using an attached USB memory stick.
I'm running ...
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remount chrooted read-only subdirectory (non-mountpoint) to read-write from within jail?
I'm trying to do the same of this question (multiple linux installation on same filesystem) but I get this result (root filesystem mounted as read-only) .
I'm using debian/sid, have successfully ...
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How to mount multiple partitions
Is there a way to mount multiple partitions, or even all partitions, of a disk with a single command in Linux? Is there, perhaps, an option that the mount command accepts that would facilitate this? ...
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pmount is not mounting Virtual Hard Disk
well , I'm using pmount for mounting usb devices .
I had made virtual hard disk on my virtual servers to check backup operations on them .
here's the problem :
pmount is not accepting to mount ...
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Mount cifs Network Drive: write permissions and chown
I have access to a cifs network drive. When I mount it under my OSX machine, I can read and write from and to it.
When I mount the drive in ubuntu, using:
sudo mount -t cifs -o ...
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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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/dev/shm/ecryptfs-$USER-Private keeps climbing in Kubuntu 12.10 Install
I'm having a problem with an installation of Kubuntu 12.10 with an encrypted home directory. I've been trying to figure it out for several weeks. For transparency, I'll note here that I posted this ...
