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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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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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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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Howto configure autofs to work with usbsticks formatted with differend filesystems
I have some USB-sticks using fat32 as filesystem and others using ext4. Now I want to configure autofs to mount the sticks automatically.
To make sure that the user can write to fat32 sticks I use ...
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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 can I determine how directories/filesystems have been mounted?
I have access to a VM which on a different network at work using NIS. (Debian by the way)
This VM has about 10 extra /directories in / when I log in. They do not exist on that VM alone, they are ...
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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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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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/etc/fstab is mounting rw filesystem as read-only
A partition of my internal hard drive (not the root partition) I want to mount automatically on boot. I've been using /etc/fstab to mount my external backup drive automatically read-only, so this is ...
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Mount and automount and security problems
Are there any security problems related with (auto)mounting device?
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1answer
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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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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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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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1answer
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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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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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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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3answers
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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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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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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 ...
