mount command, allows mounting of a file system at a specified point in the file hierarchy.
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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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Not able to execute system files
I was trying to install ruby with :
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8
output:
W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
E: The package lists ...
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Umount device after bind mounting directories: is it safe?
I have a home partition which is shared by mulitple distros on the same box. I'm using bind mounts from fstab. Each Linux install has something like this:
UUID=[...] /mnt/data ext4 ...
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Not able to lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock (read only)
I was trying to install ruby on my remote server(this is a vm machine(debian) in a esxi server . ) I got this error:
The Command:
sudo apt-get install ruby1.8
Error :
W: Not using locking for read ...
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Mounting and modifying a loopback file without sudo/root, is it possible?
I'm trying to adapt a tutorial into an easy to use script
http://qt-project.org/wiki/RaspberryPi_Beginners_guide.
I'm trying to reduce the need for sudo/root as much as possible (preferably, only ...
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Can not mount samba share from DD-WRT
I'm trying to mount a samba share on dd-wrt. I keep getting this in the dmesg and the mount command hangs.
CIFS VFS: Error connecting to IPv4 socket. Aborting operation
CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed ...
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What is /dev/xvde1?
I'm having to do with an OpenShift RHEL Linux installation running on Amazon EC2. In the filesystem, there is a device file named /dev/xvde1 mounted to / ... and a device file named /dev/xvde2 mounted ...
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Debian USB automount
Got my USB flash automount broken after reboot.
Using Debian 6, GNOME 2
My NTFS hard-disk is still mounting correctly.
When i connect my Anrdoid smartphone (with SD and local drive) my messages log ...
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Correct owner, group and permissions when mounting an image file
Suppose I have an image home.img of a home partition of another linux machine (B). On that machine there is a users userB and there is a special group, groupB. Consider for example a file fileB in the ...
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How to umount a USB drive?
I want to know how to umount my USB drive via command line. I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit.
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Can Safecopy Help Me Recover Data from a Drive that I can not Mount?
I have an old hard drive that I put data on, but it died when I tried to retrieve it, and it tells me I have to format it under Windows. Running on Linux now, can Safecopy help me even though I can ...
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mount failed to process probably corrupted CD
I wanted to check a CD from my drawer. I inserted it into my drive and issued mount. I got
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount command did not exit. I checked ...
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How to mount ext3,ext4 sitting on VDI VirtualBox HDD?
How to mount ext3, ext4 partition sitting on "Fixed-Size VDI" VirtualBox HardDisk ?
To be more specific, I ma interested in case when VM is not running.
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Finding/Mounting USB Device in Mac OS X 10.8
I've looked all over and found similar questions and answers and none seem to work for me or match what I see. I should add I'm new to UNIX and the OS X command line but have got a basic overview to ...
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Why is a drive mounted already at /mnt ? Is this ok?
One of my drives is mounted directly as /mnt
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1 7.9G 6.9G 597M 93% /
udev 829M 4.0K 829M 1% ...
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Mounting a Windows partition without giving execute permission
How can I mount a Windows partition so that the files within it don't have execution permission? I mount a Windows partition using:
sudo mount /dev/sda3 win
win is a folder in my home dir.
This of ...
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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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Interrupt process in samba share mounted folder breaks mount
I can successfully mount a Samba share on a local folder in Opensuse 12.1:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=<username>,password=<password> //<win-box>/<share> <mountpoint>
...
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1answer
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single bind mounted file gets out of sync in linux
I am bind mounting a single file on top of another one and after making changes with an editor, I don't see the modifications in both files. However, if I make the changes with the shell using ...
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What happens to files in mountpoint after running fs-cifs to mount NAS?
I'm running QNX Neutrino.
I've got some files in /mountpoint:
# ls /mountpoint
/mountpoint/a
/mountpoint/b
And after mounting my NAS using fs-cifs like so,
# fs-cifs ...
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Is it safe to resize partition on /?
I currently have a 600gb disk, with Ubuntu installed, 600gb of which is given to the Ubuntu OS:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 592G 16G 547G 3% /
udev ...
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Fix fstab to prevent boot failure
How can I fix fstab to prevent boot failure?
It seems that I have added incorrect record to /etc/fstab:
//servername/share /mnt/share cifs defaults,username=myuser 0 0
When I did ...
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How should I check to see if the remote smb serv is mounted?
I'm pretty new to mount. Basically, I have a remote SMB serv on the local network that I want copy images from a directory on, then repeat every 5 min.
I think what I need to do is make a script that ...
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Umount all attached usb disks with a single command
Is there a (safe) way to umount all partitions on all attached usb devices (usb-hdds, usb-sticks) with a single commandline command, including several encrypted luks partitions?
Only the partitions ...
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Why rootfs is mounted multiple times?
Here you can see two devices are mounted as root:
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs ...
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How to prevent fs unmounting?
(Apologies in advance for giving so few details below, but trust me that the set-up and the problem I'm dealing with are truly baroque, and even a superficial description would result in a far ...
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Can't mount EXT4 hard drive after mounting it in windows
I have a 2TB Western external HDD.
Its original filesystem was NTFS but I formatted it to EXT4.
I had no problem in Linux; But today after I mounted it using ext2fsd in a windows box, I cant mount it ...
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Preferred mount points for internal HDDs
I am relatively new to Linux and I apologise if this is a silly question. I read the Linux FS Hierarchy document but it didn't answer my question.
I would like to know if there is a typical drive ...
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Where should I mount my external harddrive?
I've got an external harddrive that I'd like to auto-mount. It will be present most times when my laptop boots. Where is the "correct" place to mount it?
/media/my-hd: Will litter /media with an ...
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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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usb thumbdrive not mountable
I am new at linux and currently I have a problem with my USB thumbdrive (can't access it either in windows - no volumes are shown).
cat /proc/scsi/scsi shows the following:
Host: scsi8 Channel: 00 ...
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How to properly export and import NFS shares that have subdirectories as mount points also?
Server A exports directory /srv via NFS with option nohide. A subdirectory within /srv, /srv/foo, is a mount point for another location on the NFS server using --bind option, like
server# mount ...
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“mount: / is busy” when trying to mount as read-only so that I can run zerofree
I am trying to run zerofree on Ubuntu 11.04 so that I can compact the VirtualBox vdi image using:
VBoxManage modifyhd Ubuntu.vdi --compact
In order to run zerofree the disk image has be mounted as ...
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How can I mount partitons in a full disk image (i.e. image with partition table) with fuse?
It's a bit indirect, but it's possible mount a partition with a disk image using mount or losetup's "offset" parameter.
I'm looking to be able to use fuse to do the same thing in user space
Use ...
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2answers
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Network file sharing between Linux and OS X
I want to share a drive/folder over the internet from my Debian machine back home, such that I can mount it on my Macbook when I am on the move. Basically I want to store my music at home and just ...
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Where do the files go if you mount a drive to a folder that already contains files?
I just accidentally mounted a new drive to a folder that already contained files. I don't care about them and have them somewhere else, but that folder appears empty now. I'm curious what happened ...
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Mounting a multi-partition (GPT/HFS+) USB 2.0 harddrive on Debian
I have a 3TB USB 2.0 hard-drive which has two HFS+ (Mac) partitions using GUID partition table for the partition records. It was partitioned with Mac OS Disk Utility. How can I mount these partitions ...
2
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1answer
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How to mount FreeBSD 9.0 iso file writable mode?
I want to edit bsdinstall script of freebsd 9.0 iso file.
I tried to extract files,edit and recreate iso but I couldn't boot it.I realized that some of files missed while extracting. I also use ...
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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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Fedora 17: plugged in iphone, but nothing happens
The title says it all but to expand a bit; I upgraded to fedora 17 from a fresh install. On f16, I had an issue mounting when they had the issue with the lockdown, but I was able to resolve that. ...
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1answer
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Error mounting dir from ext4 file system
I am trying to mount a directory on a ext4 type file system onto another linux box. Both boxes are on the same network
[root@localhost]# mount -o rw x.y.z.w:/home/lab /devbox
mount: wrong fs type, ...
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Mount NTFS image file created using partimage
From an old disk which I don't have at hand, I have created a file named winxp.img using partimage. As the filename suggests, the partition contained Windows XP and was formatted with NTFS.
(The ...
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Partition not mounting from fstab
I have mounted a partition and add it to fstab file and then rebooted but I see that the partition is not mounted although it was added to fstab.
What is wrong, and how can I solve it?
fstab line:
...
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How to check if a filesystem is mounted with a script
I am new at scripting ... I can do very basic stuff, but now I need a hand.
I have a local filesystem that only will be mounted when I need to do a backup.
I'm starting with this.
#!/bin/bash
...
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Partition mounted noexec even though not specified in /etc/fstab
I'm using Linux Mint 12. There I have several partitions which I auto-mount on startup. pysdm says that /dev/sda6 should permit execution of binaries. Also the /etc/fstab says it should.
/dev/sda7 ...
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How to get a list all the “aliases” of a file (including of type directory) efficiently?
How can one get the list of all the aliases of a file (including of type directory) efficiently, given that a file:
may have multiple hard links, multipe soft links, multi-level soft links
may be ...
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mounting to non-empty directory, then later deleting original files
I have some unused space on my disk, and decided to use a little of it to create a separate /var partition. There might be an easier way to do this, but my idea is to
copy the existing /var ...
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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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Mount Google Drive in Linux?
Now that Google Drive is available, how do we mount it to a Linux filesystem? Similar solutions exist for Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files.
