mount command, allows mounting of a file system at a specified point in the file hierarchy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 can I create an encrypted, file-system–agnostic, mountable volume?
At work, we have an iMac (running OS X) that shares a partitioned hard drive over the network. I'd like to back up to my partition from my Linux machine. I've attempted connecting via cifs, then ...
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Problems with accessing mp3 player files
I have problems with accessing my mp3 (sansa clip) on my linux mint. When i plug in player, it does mount, but seems to be empty - well ... there are built in directories and config files, here goes ...
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LXC: How do I mount a folder from the host to the container?
I'm trying to mount a folder on the host to an LXC container.
The host has a folder /mnt/ssd/solr_data created (this is currently on the root filesystem, but later I'll mount an SSD drive there, so ...
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fstab not mounting VirtualBox shared folder?
I have a virtual machine here which I use for development, so as not to mess anything up in my existing environment.
I've made a share named "web" available to the guest OS (Ubuntu 12.10 Server) ...
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btrfs and the discard mount option on an ssd
I can't seem to find an answer to this so I thought I would ask here:
In /etc/fstab and when using the mount command in ext4 you would add the option discard to activate TRIM on an SSD. Similarly ...
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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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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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group option in fstab not working
I'm trying to take advantage of the "group" option for fstab entries and not having any success. From the mount man page:
Normally, only the superuser can mount filesystems. However, when fstab ...
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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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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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/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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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Fedora, Android phone mounting?
I am using Fedora 15 and I just plugged in my Samsung Vibrant Android phone, but my phone does not even give me the option to mount over USB like usual. It still charges though. Is there some ...
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How to mount samba rw because everything fails
I'm trying to mount windows share on my laptop and everything mounts ok but somehow I get permission denied when I try to create new file inside mounted folder. I tried noperm, uid, gid, noacl etc. ...
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unionfs filesystem
I recently learned about unionfs and aufs and would like to put it to some real use. The scenario I have in mind is the following. Boot a machine with ubuntu on it which will serve as our base. Make ...
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Obtain device name and mount point if partition label is known
How to obtain the partition device name and mount point when the file system
label is known?
There are several possibilities:
Linux
File system label to device name
The device name can be obtained ...
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/dev/shm/ecryptfs-$USER-Private keeps climbing in Kubuntu 12.10 Install
I'm having a problem with an installation of Kubuntu 12.10 with an encrypted home directory. I've been trying to figure it out for several weeks. For transparency, I'll note here that I posted this ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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/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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Why can't users besides root create files in a samba share?
I am sharing a directory on one Red Hat machine via samba, and mounting it on another Red Hat machine with the following command:
mount -t cifs -o guest <remotepath> <localpath>
The ...
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0answers
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User mounted secondary drive as /var
I have a drive that someone else mounted using
mount /dev/sdc1 /var
At some point they complained that all the data was missing
Now:
mount /dev/sdc1 /media/testdrive
df -h shows 130GB used
du -h ...
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NFS server optimization for maximum performance
I'm looking for maximum of performance for a NFS mount.
I'm on local network, it could be completly unsecure, the performance is the most important in my case.
What I already found :
In /etc/export ...
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Span a directory on an SD card and an attached USB stick
Can I span a folder on the SD card on my Raspberry Pi with a folder on an attached USB device?
I'd like to basically extend the size of a directory by using an attached USB memory stick.
I'm running ...
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pmount is not mounting Virtual Hard Disk
well , I'm using pmount for mounting usb devices .
I had made virtual hard disk on my virtual servers to check backup operations on them .
here's the problem :
pmount is not accepting to mount ...
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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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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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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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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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/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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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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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 ...
