mount command, allows mounting of a file system at a specified point in the file hierarchy.
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Linux, fat32 and etc/fstab
I mounted a FAT32 drive onto my Linux computer using the following terminal command:
> sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/exampleFolderName -o dmask=000, fmask=111
I did this so I could share / edit ...
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When to mount /tmp (and other temporary directories)
When is the right time to mount /tmp (on Debian)? For /home I would not feel bad just to echo "/dev/foo /home type defaults 0 0" >>/etc/fstab - but can I be sure that /tmp is not used by any ...
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Qmake not working in a mounted smb dir
I'm trying to use qmake in a samba mounted directory. Here is what I get
jj@deb32-6:~/smbShare$ qmake .
QFSFileEngine::currentPath: stat(".") failed
QFSFileEngine::currentPath: stat(".") failed
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Can I mount NTFS flash drive on linux
Hi I'm using RHEL 6 an WIN 7. I have a flash drive of 16GB. To copy the files which are above 4GB size I changed it to NTFS(FAT32 is allowing only file size below 4GB). But now I am not able to use in ...
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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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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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Partitioning Ubuntu and Windows 7 once and for all
I am dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu (installed with wubi). So far there have been no problems, but now it says the disk is out of space all the time (I think that is because /dev/loop0 is used 100% ...
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How to restore a Fat32 filesystem under Linux
Here is what happened:
I used the Laptop and accessed some data on my usb stick. Then I closed the Laptop putting the system into sleep mode. The USB-Stick was still plugged in. After the laptop was ...
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What is the concept of Drives in Unix Systems?
In windows, we have C drives where all the softwares are installed and other partitions e.g; D, E etc to store our data. Now once we reinstall the windows for some reason, we install everything again ...
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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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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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Is there a command to see where a disk is mounted?
Is there a simple command that takes a disk's device node as input, and tells me where (and whether) that disk is mounted? Is it possible to get the mount point by itself, so I can pass it to another ...
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Flash drive in OpenBSD: “specified device does not match mounted device”
I'm a relative BSD newb. I have a small server running OpenBSD 4.4. I'm trying to plug in a 16GB USB flash drive to move some files. I followed the guidance of the Disk Setup documentation, and found ...
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To sync /var or not?
It seems in a hard crash, in particular failure of a UPS to keep a system running, that some of the contents of logs get lost due to file system caching. As an experiment, I tried mounting the /var ...
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Mount drive from redhat to a windows share with CIFS
I have been trying to mount a drive, but anything i do i get 'Access Denied',
I tried:
mount -t cifs //192.168.x.x/m -o username=user,password=mypass /mnt/mymount
mount -t cifs //192.168.x.x/m -o ...
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Show established samba mounts
showmount only list me NFS mounts. I also want such a list for samba shares. How can this be done?
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Mounting multiple devices at a single mount point on Linux
Is there a way to mount multiple hard drives to a single mount point? Let's say I run out of space on /home and decide to add an extra hard drive to the computer. How do I scale the space on a mount ...
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problem exporting /media as an nfs share: why does it happen?
I've got two netbooks. One netbook has two installed Linux systems: openSUSE 11.04 and Debian testing. By default, in Debian, gnome mounts the /home filesystem for openSUSE, which shows up in gnome's ...
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Volume manager tries to mount device while reformatting in gparted
When reformatting a USB drive with gparted, my volume manager attempts to mount the device. This results in some error messages telling me the device could not be mounted. The only way I know to turn ...
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Hanging at “Running Transaction Test” when trying to install php-soap
I have here a CentOS 5 and I'm trying to run yum install php-soap but the installer hangs on and the last step is Running Transaction Test.
I found out that NFS shares are the problem. See here or ...
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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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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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Create iso image of ext3 type
I want to create an ISO image which can be mounted with an ext3 partition type. How can I do that?
I am using this command:
[root@manage upload]# dd if=testParti.txt of=./diskImage.iso
41+1 records ...
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Unable to mount usb drive, but computer sees that it's there.. PNY (MIPS Lemote)
The computer being used is a Lemote Yeeloong, and the OS is currently Debian Wheezy (mipsel) with no X windows system. So the computer can only be operated with unix commands right now (until I ...
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Problem with mount namespaces under Fedora
I've run into an odd problem regarding mount namespaces on Linux. I have two systems, both X86_64 running kernel 3.2.3-2 under Fedora 16. I am attempting to mount a tmpfs filesystem in a child ...
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How does Bash path completion work with sudo?
Tab path completion does not work (at least on Ubuntu and AFAIK Arch) with
sudo mount <whatever>
The iso file I am trying to mount is not in /etc/fstab. If I just type
mount <whatever>
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mount error “is not a block device”
I am trying to make olddir accessible from newdir with the mount command:
mount olddir newdir
Why do I get the following error?
mount: olddir is not a block device
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Mount device with r/w access to specific user
How can I mount some device with read-write access to specific user?
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Bind specific usb out
How can I bind specific usb out to specific /dev/sd* value?
Each time that I plugged in some device in specific usb out it binds to different /dev/sd* location. How can I avoid it to set mounting ...
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Difficulty with mobile broadband device being recognized (registered as CD ROM)
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a Samsung n150 netbook. I have bought a vodafone pay-as-you-go mobile broadband dongle. It is a Huawei device.
I have *usb_modeswitch* installed. I installed betavine ...
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Mounting Remote Filesystem over SSH as a Different User
Due to a breach of security, the administrators of the work server have implemented a new method of security. To log into the server, we must log in as our own user (which has severely limited ...
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Where in “/” should extra disks be mounted?
According to Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_directory_structure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
extra disks should not be mounted in /mnt/ according to the ...
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Unable to use USB through DD-WRT on a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2
I have a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 and I'm trying to get USB support working. The original Buffalo-branded firmware would refuse to mount the USB drive, so I've followed what tutorials I've found for ...
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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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how to mount this disk?
I'm trying to mount a disc created some time ago in Amazon EC2. This is what I see (line breaks added for the sake of readability):
$ sudo file -s /dev/xvda4
/dev/xvda4: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ...
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trouble with irssi and cifs
I'm having trouble getting irssi, the irc client, to write to a mounted cifs share. I have the uid, and gid set to my user as well as setting the permissions on the share to being very permissive. ...
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What file system is my file on?
How do I figure out which file system a given file/directory is located on?
(For example, I would like to know if the file/directory is a temporary file in RAM, or if it's stored on disk. And what ...
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Mounting USB drive that is not recognized
Using Arch Linux / XFCE, I frequently have problems with USB drives that are not properly mounted. Sometimes they automatically show up in Thunar and I can mount them with one click. However, at other ...
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Cross mounting nfs shares on linux servers
We have a few linux file servers, our sysadmin refuses to do any NFS cross mounting, by cross mounting I mean mounting an nfs share from server A on server B and a share from server B on A .
Anybody ...
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On Debian in fluxbox, GtkPod has no write permission, but does in GNOME
In fluxbox I manually mount my iPod, then run GtkPod as a normal user, unfortunately this doesn't give me write permissions as a normal user.
(I can paste the error message in later when I am home if ...
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Can't mount remote file system with sshfs [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to apply changes of newly added user groups without needing to reboot?
I have posted this question in linux mint users forum about some hours ago.
I'm trying to ...
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Modify list of devices mounted at boot on Linux
Where do you configure or what command do I use to mount device at boot?
Is it in the file /etc/fstab ?
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Mounting ufs partition with read/write permissions on ubuntu 10.04
According to this writeup ufs kernel module is compiled with only read permissions. I could mount a ufs partition with this command:
sudo mount -t ufs -r -o ufstype=ufs2 /dev/mapper/loop0p1 ...
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Mouting a kvm qemu disk image with multiple partitions
I am trying to mount a KVM-qemu disk image with this command:
sudo mount -o loop,offset=32256 centos6.img /mnt/centos6. But it shows this error: you must specify filesystem type. As I have more ...
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What do first column in /proc/mounts really mean in Linux?
Run cat /proc/mounts and I get this (simplified):
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
io /etc/blkio cgroup ...
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How to get the complete and exact list of mounted filesystems in Linux?
I usually use mount to check which filesystems are mounted. I also know there is some connection between mount and /etc/mtab but I'm not sure about the details. After reading How to check if /proc/ is ...
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List mount points owner and group
I'm running HPUX 11.x and I was wondering if there's a command that would list all the mount point owner and group. I want a listing like df or bdf but with ownership information. Any suggestions? ...
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Faster alternative to ArchiveMount?
At the moment I am using ArchiveMount to mount a 123,000 kb archive that contains more then 3 million files inside. So far it has been mounting for 5+ hours and still isn't finished.
Is there a ...
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Mount NTFS Partition on Startup in Ubuntu
I have a 10 gigabyte partition which I use for files which I share between my Windows installation and my Oneiric Ocelet (Ubuntu) installation.
My Eclipse workspaces exist on this partition. Eclipse ...
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Mount a Rackspace drive in Linux
Is there any software that will allow me to mount a Rackspace drive in linux? I want to copy SQL files from my database onto my Rackspace. I have web min running a backup nightly and copying those ...
