mount command, allows mounting of a file system at a specified point in the file hierarchy.
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Mount HTTP Server As File System
I have a machine on which I wish to mount multiple remote servers to access them all centrally. For remote Linux based systems I am using SSHFS which works fine. But for Windows systems, or systems ...
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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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How to get UUID for a USB drive?
I want to mount my USB to a mount point which holds the UUID name. But I don't know how to express this in a command line!
Can someone help me how to do it?
I have searched and found that I have to ...
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How to mount an encrypted TrueCrypt partition always in the same point?
I just formatted my external HD and divided it in two partitions: an ext4 where important information will be, and a ntfs for "compatibility" things (i.e. movies, music, etc).
I encrypted the ext4 ...
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Not mounting after restart?
I am mounting a drive via SSH, and then editing the fstab to reflect the changes, however after I reboot, the drive doesnt mount?
I dont understand what I'm doing wrong?
This is my fstab and its ...
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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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Device mounted read/write, but can't delete files
Please have a look on the attached.
What could be done to solve it?
[root@LAB-oam-blade-3 tomcat]# mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
[...]
/dev/mapper/TOMCATp1 on ...
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Impossible to mount USB stick
I've just installed Debian Sid on my computer but I cannot mount external USB drives as you can see in the image.
Mounting failed
Cannot mount "SENZATITOLO"
Not authorized
What should I ...
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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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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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Redhat: non-root user needs to copy files to a NFS share
Typically non-root users cannot mount directories.
Running Redhat
Have 6GB tar.gz (/dir/somefile.tar.gz)
Need to move to a NFS share on another box (//somebox/somefolder/)
We have no other access. ...
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file_mode and dir_mode do not work when sharing ext3 drive via cifs
I have a ext3 drive connected to my router and shared via CIFS protocol. I wan't to mount it with certain permissions for each file/directory. Permissions are 2770 for both.
Here's my /etc/fstab ...
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When mounting, when should I use a loop device?
According to the following question:
What is a "loop device" when mounting?
A loop device is a file that acts as a block-based device. While I can understand that conceptually, how is this ...
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1answer
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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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Having owner access on files upon mounted NFS directory
I have a Linux RedHat server and a Solaris 10 client. I have mounted a directory which locates on the RedHat server, in the Solaris system with RW(read/write) option. I already have some directories ...
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Creating a Safe Web Server
Web server hosts multiple websites. Multiple users update each website.
User home directory
/home/user1
/home/user2
Web directory
/var/www/site1
/var/www/site2
Each user uses SFTP to upload ...
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Why does mount require root privileges?
Why does Linux require that a user be root/using sudo/specifically authorized per mount in order to mount something? It seems like the decision as to whether to allow a user to mount something should ...
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/var has most of the drive space. Need / to have most of it
So when my host setup my dedi, they seemed to apply most of the drive space to /var
I am on cpanel, and need most of the space for the /home directory where all the accounts and data are.
But on ...
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1answer
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How do you mount an ext2 formatted qemu disk image?
I am having issues mounting an image I created with the qemu-img program. Every time I attempt to invoke mount upon the subsequent file, it responds with failed to setup loop device: No such file or ...
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How to mount/recover data on a disk that was part of a mdadm raid 1 on another machine?
Some background
The disk itself was "worked on" by a friend and is said to be still intact, undamaged and still mountable/recoverable
The disk was part of a software raid 1 on Ubuntu 12.04
The other ...
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md5sum change after mount?
I have a ext3 filesystem on a .img file. After mounting and unmounting it, I noticed that the md5sum is changed, even if no file inside was changed!
md5sum myfilesystem.img
XXXX myfilesystem.img
...
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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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Mounting USB drive on 3G dongle
I've got an Huawei HiLink E303 USB G3-internet dongle that I'd like to use to connect to the internet. I'm using Arch Linux. According to this page, the Linux drivers are actually on the device and ...
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Really umount external drive
I had a USB drive mounted on /dev/sdb1 and I want to reformat from NTFS to ext3. I did umount -l which unmounted the disk. I deleted the old partition using cfdisk. I ran mkfs.ext3, but got the error:
...
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dynamic file system with hooks
Is there anyway in linux (I don't care which distribution or flavor) to have a dynamic file system with read/write hooks? For example I would like to mount a dynamic file system at /dynamic and ...
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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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Cannot mount samba share: Mount error (22)
I am trying to mount a password protected samba share.
When IÂ access the share via smb://server/share in nautilus there is no password/user promt, it seems IÂ am logged in as a guest and I can browse ...
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The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state
I try to mount a NTFS partition in nautilus, and it refuse to mount it and suggests resume and shutdown
Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), the problem is that I have already disabled ...
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/media, /mnt, /run and automounting
As of Fedora15, a new directory under root was introduced. A couple of quotes:
i.e. /var is "persistant runtime data" and /run
is "volatile runtime data", and /etc is "persistant system config
...
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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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How to umount permanently /home
To install Linux Mint, I used two partitions: /dev/sda4 for / and /dev/sda5 the other contains /home. However, the contents of /media/elvis/Home/elvis and /home/elvis are not the same. So, I don't ...
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Can a mounted encrypted filesystem be safe from root?
I have access to a shared remote computer from which I would like to run some code I have written which uses an interpreter (not a compiled code). I would like to protect this source code from other ...
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How can I mount a directory of the host system for use inside a FreeBSD jail?
I am performing the following on FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE:
mount_nullfs /foo /jail/foo
After that, from within the host system, the mount works. So this works:
touch /foo/bar && ls /jail/foo/bar
...
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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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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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Best way to mount remote folder
I have two RasberryPi running debian wheezy and I would like to mount a folder from computer A on computer B.
What is the best (as in most efficient) way to do this?
I can do it via SMB, but that is ...
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Mounting from dolphin vs commandline
I have been wondering how this is possible (i.e. how this works internally). When you want to mount a directory you have to be root.
sudo mount /dev/something /mnt/somedir
I know you can get around ...
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Mount a USB disk in Linux which was not properly unmounted in Windows
I would like to know if there is a software solution in Linux for the following situation:
Connect a USB disk to a Windows host (could be XP, Vista,7 , etc).
Copy a big file to the USB disk.
...
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2answers
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Problem mounting my iRiver story HD on Ubuntu
I would like to connect my iRiver Story HD to my ubuntu 12.04 machine but as I connect it I get this error:
Unable to mount Story HD
Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad ...
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/home is Read Only after coming out of screensaver (intermittent)
I am using Linux Mint 13 (Maya) and I have my "/home" partition formatted as ext4 and mounted at "dev/sdc1".
Occasionally I have a strange problem coming up that looks a lot like this bug that I ...
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Remounting HOME
I have my "/home" partition formatted as ext4 and mounted at "dev/sdc1" and occasionally have a strange problem coming up that looks a lot like this bug that I found here.
A little more than half way ...
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NFS sharing is read only
I have problem with NFS sharing. See my exports:
/export 192.168.1.11(rw,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check,sync)
/export/share 192.168.1.12(rw,nohide,insecure,no_subtree_check,sync)
From a client ...
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How to mount iso9660 filesystem as read write
Hey my iso file won't accept device files so I was wondering how I could mount a cdrw with an iso9660 filesystem as read write to copy device files to the cdrw.
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How to unmount a formerly chroot'd filesystem?
I'm using a rescue-live-system (similar to a live-cd) to fix some issues with my Debian server, like that:
# mkdir -p /mnt/rescue
# mount /dev/md2 /mnt/rescue
# mount --bind /dev /mnt/rescue/dev/
# ...
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Can not mount NFS from server on local network
I set up my NFS server without doing any bigger changes in configuration files. After that I added these entries to /etc/exports(both paths are valid) on server(192.168.1.11):
/export ...
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External Hard-Drive not visible in /media
I cannot seem to ssh into my external Hard-drive on "/media" it used to show up there, but now it doesn't.
I have erased the Disk and verified it (on MAC OSX) and it still does not show.
I have ...
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Mounting Directory - Connection Refused
I am trying to mount a Directory from my server to my local machine. This is because I want to edit the directory and execute the files without having the manually push the files to the server after ...
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1answer
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Cannot Recognize ISO in Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow) in VMWare View Player
It's a long story of why I am trying to do this (basically supporting a business that has not updated their servers in a LONG time). In any case, I am trying to mount an ISO in VMWare View player so I ...
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disk labels mismatch [closed]
I've added a new disk in a hurry and now I have several mismatches. Would anyone care to help me to sort them out. Below I'm giving fstab, fdisk -l,
df -la (apparently "/" (root) is duplicated ??, ...
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autofs mounts not disconnecting after inactive
I have autofs installed on several linux servers that are connecting to central NFS server for the users /home directories. It works great when mounting the directories on login, but the mounts never ...
