mount command, allows mounting of a file system at a specified point in the file hierarchy.
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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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How can ubuntu/truecrypt be configured so users can mount volumes if-and-only-if they have proper permissions on the mount-point?
If I add the line: ALL= /usr/bin/truecrypt to the sudoers file this lets all users mount volumes at arbitrary mount-points. The problem is a user could create a truecrypt volume and then mount it at ...
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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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Mount an loop file without root permission?
Can i mount a loop file without root permission , normally i do:
mount -o loop DISK_IMAGE FOLDER
Without setting up sudo or suid mount program , is there any suitable way to do this ?
I know i can ...
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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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Problem with permissions when sharing a mounted filesystem
I am setting up a linux to act as a fileserver, using CentOS 6.3.
Since I want to have disk quotas and can't install LVM (it is a 32 bit machine), I am using an LVM volume with ext4 mounted 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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Is it possible to mount a gzip compressed dd image on the fly?
I like create an image backup for the first time I'm backing up a system. After this first time I use rsync to do incremental backups.
My usual image backup is as follows:
Mount and zero out the ...
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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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Online remount btrfs of root filesystem with different subvolume (snapshot)
Let's say you have a btrfs root filesystem on an online system. You want to revert the filesystem to an earlier state, of which you have a snapshot:
remount /dev/sdaX / -o remount,subvol=snapshots/Y
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How to have correct permissions of files from usb disks?
Does anyone have the following problem?
I have an Ubuntu box at work and also one at home.
I always copy folders/files to/from an usb disk to/from my boxes.
I have to change permissions of ...
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Can I mount a microsoft mirrored dynamic disk?
I'm testing out sw raid in windows 7, but I almost always use linux and I would like to know if it's possible to mount such a mirrored dynamic disk.
I can already mount each members separatly but ...
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Mounting external drive does not work anymore
~$ dmesg | tail
[ 479.558062] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: S07F1601A00000090095
[ 479.559231] scsi7 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 480.557093] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access Ext Hard Disk PQ: ...
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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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Detecting that a device is mounted to a particular folder?
As part of revamping my backup scheme, I'm now adding rotating external hard drives, keeping one safely off-site at all times while the other is receiving backup data. Naturally, to ensure that my ...
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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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Right way to start VirtualBox with shared folders mounted
Need of commandline to start VM with access to shared folder. Now if I run
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment "win" --startvm "c252555c-bla-bla"
I get VM running but shared folders not ...
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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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How to mount a Truecrypt container with a timeout from the command line?
I'm mounting a truecrypt container via the command line (i.e. truecrypt file dir). Is there any way to have truecrypt automatically unmount the container after a given amount of inactivity in dir?
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How to mount a virtual disk in Linux (on VMWare)
I am running Ubuntu 10.04.4 thru VMWare Workstation. I added a second virtual hard disk drive, which is found under /dev/sdb , as shown below
How do you mount this to anywhere? (e.g. /mnt/sdb).
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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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/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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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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filesystem image mounted with lofiadm looks smaller than expected
I have a .gz file and I'd like to see the content of it. I used lofiadm to mount it.
lofiadm /backup/file.gz ->> returned /dev/lofi/1
mount -F ufs /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
Then I checked the content ...
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NFS configuration redhat6.3 64bit
I'm getting this error on the client:
[root@localhost /]# mount -t nfs 192.168.18.144:/linuxcast-nfs /mnt/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.18.144:/linuxcast-nfs,
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How to re-mount a USB stick after unmounting from Nautilus without disconnecting it?
I find that in order to re-mount a USB stick, I have to physically disconnect it, and then re-connect it. How can I do this without such tiring physical action?
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Creating a local workspace for development/testing
I want to be able to mount, say /home/$USER/workspace to /usr/local/workspace.
Right now I'm using the python package pyfilesystem which uses fuse to do that. My problem is, that inside that mount I ...
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Gedit cannot save in shared folder (Virtualbox)
I'm getting the "Cannot save _ Unexpected error: Error renaming temporary file: Text file busy" in Gedit 2 when I try to save in a shared folder with Virtualbox (Debian). I've searched and apparently ...
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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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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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How do I mount an `img` created with /bin/dd of a hard drive?
I used dd to backup a 80GB drive
dd if=/dev/sdb of=~/sdb.img
Now I need to access some files on that drive, but I don't want to copy the ".img" back over the drive.
mount ~/sdb.img /mnt/sdb ...
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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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Live USB: how to access USB drive that linux booted from
Can't find it in /media or /mnt.
What I want:
live distro so I have guarantee it won't break and will boot/work every single time
have access to directory on that USB drive for storage purposes, ...
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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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A drive changes device file name after resuming from suspend (Linux Mint 14)
I'm running into a very odd problem: When I resume Mint 14 from suspend, one of my drives (/dev/sdc) changes letter / device file name (to /dev/sdd). fdisk -l shows that it has the same partitions, ...
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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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Cannot mount samba share: Mount error (22)
I am trying to mount a password protected samba share.
When I access the share via smb://server/share in nautilus there is no password/user promt, it seems I am logged in as a guest and I can browse ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
