mount command, allows mounting of a file system at a specified point in the file hierarchy.
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What mount points exist on a typical Linux system?
I have 2 questions.
During Linux installation we specify memory space for 2 mount points - root and swap. Are there any other mount points created without the users notice?
Is this statement ...
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What is meant by mounting a device in Linux?
I've heard the term "mounting" when referring to devices in Linux. What is its actual meaning? How it handling now unlike older versions?
I haven't done that manually via the command-line. Can you ...
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Automount USB drives with no GUI requirement (halevt replacement)
For minimal installations of Debian, I have been using halevt to enable automounting of USB drives. Halevt is reliable and requires no configuration aside from installing the package. Now, halevt has ...
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Different linux distros sharing the same /home folder?
what is the best way to share the same /home directories between different linux distribution?
I mean, I want to have both , say, Fedora and Arch, and I want to find my files at home no matter which ...
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How to get my USB key to auto mount
I'm currently working in a command line only environment.
When I plug my USB key in, I see a new device file in /dev:
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sdi
sdi1
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If I simply sudo mount /dev/sdi1 /media/tmp, and umount it ...
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Access to original contents of mount point
On my headless NAS I have sdf1 (a flash-card) mounted as / while /home is mounted from lv00 (an LVM volume backed by a software RAID). To be able to access the machine when the RAID fails, I have a ...
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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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What is a “loop device” when mounting?
I am doing a mounting of an iso file and looking at this tutorial. They use the command:
$ mount -o loop disk1.iso /mnt/disk
I'm trying to understand the use of -o loop. So I have two questions:
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understanding “mount” as a concept in the OS
I want to understand what mounting is. It is used in different contexts and situations and I can't find resources which:
Describe the mount concept
Explain the actions taken by the ...
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How to create a read-only snapshot in btrfs?
As far as I understand, the snapshots made by btrfs subvolume snapshot are writable by default and are visible at a certain path under the mountpoint of your btrfs volume.
How to setup the system so ...
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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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What is the loopback interface
What is the loopback interface and how does it differ from the eth0 interface?
And why do I need to use it when mounting an ISO or running a service on localhost?
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Is there a linux vfs tool that allows bind a directory in different location (like mount --bind) in user space?
For a user process, I want to mount a directory in other location but in user space without root privilieges. Something like mount --bind /origin /dest, but with a vfs wrapper. Like a usermode ...
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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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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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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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Mount permissions always blocked
How do I authorise my non-root user to manually mount/unmount ALL media on my desktop. I always get denied permission.
Media refers to all mountable USB devices and other partitions on my HDD as ...
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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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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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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 does a kernel mount the root partition?
My question is with regards to booting a Linux system from a separate /boot partition. If most configuration files are located on a separate / partition, how does the kernel correctly mount it at boot ...
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Mount an iso without root access?
Is it possible for a user without root access to mount an arbitrary iso?
If so how?
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How to mount a device in Linux? (Beginner's confusion)
I read some resources about the mount command for mounting devices on Linux, but none of them is clear enough (at least for me).
On the whole this what most guides state:
$ mount
(lists all ...
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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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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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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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Does mount always require root privileges?
I was under the impression that any sort of call to mount requires root privileges.
But recently I was told "You should instead create appropriate entries in /etc/fstab so that the filesystems can be ...
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How to check if /proc/ is mounted
How can I check if /proc/ is mounted?
Using /etc/mtab is discouraged as it
might be inconsistent.
Using /proc/mounts is also not an
option as might not exist if /proc/
is not mounted (although ...
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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 sudoer spec allows users to mount cifs shares?
I'm trying create a line in /etc/sudoers that allows members of group "users" to mount cifs shares anywhere inside their own home directory. In my first attempt I tried:
%users ALL=/bin/mount -t cifs ...
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How to mount multiple partitions
Is there a way to mount multiple partitions, or even all partitions, of a disk with a single command in Linux? Is there, perhaps, an option that the mount command accepts that would facilitate this? ...
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When was `relatime` made the default?
What is the first Linux kernel release to set relatime as the default mount option?
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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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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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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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Does `shutdown -P now` safely unmount a USB drive mounted to `/dev/sdb1`?
I typically unmount my USB drive (using umount) from /dev/sdb1 before I shutdown my computer but if I shut it down using shutdown -P now and then restart it, the drive is no longer mounted.
Is this ...
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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 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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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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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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Unable to mount NTFS partition from user account
I'm trying to mount a Windows ntfs partition on openSuse 11.4. When I mount it using the root account (either directly or via sudo) it mounts without problems. But when I try mounting it without any ...
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Mount samba filesystem into RHEL 5.5
I have a trial RHEL version for a proof of concept where I was asked to mount a windows filesystem into linux.
I tried
mount -t smbfs -o username=samba,password=samba //Desktop/Public /mnt/public
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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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remount chrooted read-only subdirectory (non-mountpoint) to read-write from within jail?
I'm trying to do the same of this question (multiple linux installation on same filesystem) but I get this result (root filesystem mounted as read-only) .
I'm using debian/sid, have successfully ...
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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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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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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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how to chown mounted device?
When I plug in my external hard-drive when running KDE, it prompts me to mount the device (by clicking an icon, no sudo involved), and once I've done that I am the owner of the files. This is great.
...
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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 ...
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Mount a Windows network drive
I want to mount a netword drive on the server (SBS2008). I have two options: Either using a fedora which already mounts on a CentOS server or directly on the CentOS server. Here is the command I tried ...
