mount command, allows mounting of a file system at a specified point in the file hierarchy.
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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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Fixed mount point of external usb hdd
I'm doing a backup script and need to have a fixed mount point for an external usb drive. If it is the first usb connected it will mount in /media/usb0/, however if it is the second, third... it will ...
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As what user is an sshfs mounted folder being accessed?
I'm trying to do a network backup of a drive. There are two machines in this process.
PC1:
Distant machine with 2 hards sda and sdb
sdb is the drive which needs backing up
two users exist, root and ...
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Rhythmbox can't find music on my Android device
Rhythmbox on my Arch Linux shows my smartphone on the devices list, but it's unable to find any music on it. I installed mtp and mtpfs and also enabled the mtp plugin in Rhythmbox. I also added a ...
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How to find the type of an img file so it can be mounted
I have a .img file and I want to see what's inside of it. I tried mounting it, but I don't know what filesystem type it is. Is there a way to detect what it is so I can mount it? I'm using Ubuntu.
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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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Is there a tool to view and edit ,iso files like PowerISO?
I am looking for a archive manager that will allow me to look into the contents without needing to mount it and also to add or remove contents by drag and drop style. The Windows' equivalent would be ...
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Need to change the mount Point of LVM /u001/app/oracle to /u001/
This is the situation.I installed the RHEL 5.5 on client's system and created LVM mount point at /u001/app/oracle and now he has installed DB on /u001/app/oracle. He is asked me to change the mount ...
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mounting problem during installation of archlinux on dell xps one
I've been trying to install archlinux on xps one.
the screen doesn't work because it has intel g45/g43 express chipset.
I had to use nomodeset option as mentioned in the installation guide.
Arch ...
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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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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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Unable to mount raid on my NAS, trying to rescue the data, how should I proceed?
A short backstory: something happened on my Synology NAS, apparently a buggy mailserver program that came with an update stopped the device from seeing the 2x3TB drives I have. After a lot of ...
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How to split a ddrescue disk image and how to use it again?
I have a 500GB external HDD that I need to rescue the contents of. Unfortunately I only have two 400GB partitions to save the contents to. Can I split the disk image as:
~$ cd /mnt/part1/Recovery/
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Determining the Source of a Given File System Mount on Unix
Background
Recently I have run into a bit of a snag on my home FreeBSD server. I recently upgraded it to the latest stable release, and I have noticed some strange behavior with the /var partition. ...
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Why mounting an iso is faster than extracting it
When I tried to extract(Used right click and extract) a 2Gb iso file it took a lot of time. I tried to mount the iso using -o loop and its works fast. Why is it so?
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Read/write access on raw NTFS image
I backed up an entire 32GB NTFS partition to a raw image with with dd. The file-system on the partition in accessible under Debian after mounting with:
$ sudo mount -o ro,loop ...
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Move /tmp to RAM
I am trying to move /tmp to RAM and obey good practice:
/var/tmp should NOT be placed in tmpfs, as it must survive reboots
not mount /tmp as a stand-alone tmpfs, but rely on /dev/shm or /run/shm
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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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right way to mount sdcard in linux
i have a problem with mounting my camcoder with sdcard as volume. It seems it is sdcard problem, can it be repaired? I have reformated sdcard in windows system but this did'nt solve problem all ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 liveusb/cd - Mount in Read Write Mode?
How do you mount a drive (internal or external) in READ/WRITE mode using the Ubuntu 12.04 Live CD / USB?
I can boot the computer with the LiveUSB but Ubuntu is only mounting the drives as read only ...
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How to change the Name of Logical volume in Volume group
I created an LVM and inside that i created Volume Group and within it created Logical Volume and given the mount point /u001/app/pracle I named it wrong instead of ORACLE i it should have been typed ...
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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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Auto mount USB devices on debian?
This isn't a big deal i was just curious so if anyone happens to know why then great.
I'm not sure if usbmount is the tool as which usbmount doesn't show anything but on my debian system (no ...
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How to make sure a loopfile is only mounted once?
When mounting a filesystem image via mount -o loop, is there any mechanism to prevent the same file to be mounted a second time?
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Any temporary fix for / being remounted as read-only?
My disk has a few bad sectors and has already failed the SMART tests. It obviously is going down.
It gets remounted to read only and I have to fsck and reboot all over again. Is it safe for me to ...
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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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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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How to move the /var/www directory to a USB HDD?
I have a default OpenBSD 5.1 install. How Can I enabled httpd, OK.
QUESTION: How can I use the
/dev/sd0a on /mnt/usbhdd type ffs (local, nodev)
instead of the default "/var/www" directory? What ...
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Unable to access Linux share from a Windows machine with NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME error
On the Linux machine I changed the smb.conf like this:
[john]
path = /root/john/downloads
available = yes
valid users = john
read only = no
browsable = yes
public = yes
writable = yes
The path ...
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Fedora 17 : Nautilus, after mount manually, device will not see again in Device section
In Nautilus, I see left pane is useful. It contains shortcut to another place. Such as :
At device : I can see Windows Partition (although I does not mount yet) or at my computer, some shortcut to ...
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Order of mounting USB devices in Linux
I'm running a Ubuntu system where USB drives are mounted automatically.
I'm curious to what happens when a USB device plugs in a port. Which part of the linux senses that a new device has been plugged ...
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How to mount a cryptsetup container just with `mount`?
I created an encrypted container via
#!/bin/bash
dd if=/dev/zero of=$1 bs=1 count=0 seek=$2
MAPPER=$(mktemp -up /dev/mapper)
LOOPDEV=$(losetup --find --show $1)
cryptsetup luksFormat $LOOPDEV
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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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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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Unable to mount /home/ partition after reinstalling grub after reinstalling windows 7
I've reinstall windows 7 on it's asignated partition and, as usually, it override the MBR with it's own stuff and, thus, it was not possible to boot to my ubuntu 12.04 partition.
I followed the step ...
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Help with unzipping a .dd.gz, possibly corrupted
I recieved this file that I was told was a copy of a hard drive (or disk). The file is "sheeva-mem.dd.gz". I tried to unzip the file in a linux Fedora machine. This yielded "unexpected end of file". ...
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Filesystem type on Solaris 5.10
How can I get the file system type for each device on Solaris 5.10? I tried mount with no args but that only listed each mount point, similar to df.
Also, how can I find where a specific directory ...
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Can I make a symlink point to different locations on different machines?
Before you say "no", a workaround would also be fine.
Here is the situation: I have two machines local and compile, both including the same ~ over nfs from a third machine files. I would like to have ...
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Multi-Distro boot DVD with SystemRescueCD 2.8.0 fails to boot the SRCD portion
I'm trying to create a multi-distro mutli-boot dvd image containing (amongst others) the SystemRescueCD iso. I'm using GRUB as the boot loader and I've managed to get most of the other ISOs booting ...
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Are there any drawbacks from using mount --bind as a substitute for symbolic links?
Symlinks have limitations in how functions like ls, mv, and cp can operate on them because unlike shell initiated commands like cd, these functions do not have information about how the user accessed ...
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accessing files hidden by mounted drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Access to original contents of mount point
I have a directory d containing some file f and I mount a drive on directory d. Is there a way of accessing file f without ...
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Quicker Way to Reference a Directory?
This one is probably easy for all of you, but I have never had to deal with such a nested local set of directories.
If I have a path like: /mnt/media2/Archived\ Files/_Transfer/ is there a way to ...
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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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Creating mounting point
I am mounting an image, and just realized that I have to create the
directory for mounting point first. The command mount won't mount
to a non-existing directory.
But I seem to remember in some ...
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Using a symlink for a mountpoint
Is it possible to set a symlink on a mountpoint? I have a mountpoint /vz. When I'm ln -s /var/lib/vz /vz the result is, that I have a directory vz in my mountpoint /vz, thus I have /vz/vz. Is there ...
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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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Run shell script when new volume mounted
I'm interested in running an rsync script whenever any new volume is mounted on my Debian box. What are some potential triggers / strategies for listening for a new volume mount?
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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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pwd: show mountpoint
I have mounted a directory to another directory using mount --bind so that an sftp user of my server can access this directory.
mount --bind /path/share /path/home/user/stuff
I have put this in ...
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Mounting ISO in Linux/KDE
Is there a graphical, preferably integrated with Dolphin, utility for mounting ISO images?
