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Unable to mount ext2 hard drive

I have been trying to mount an ext2 hard drive in ubuntu server, but when i run sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/mynewdrive -t ext2 I get wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing ...
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cannot mount .img file - “not a directory” error

I try to execute the following command on an ubuntu 12.04 system: sudo mount minix203.img -o loop -t minix /mnt/myminix/ in order to mount an .img file with minix partition; and get the following ...
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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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How to mount/recover data on a disk that was part of a mdadm raid 1 on another machine?

Some background The disk itself was "worked on" by a friend and is said to be still intact, undamaged and still mountable/recoverable The disk was part of a software raid 1 on Ubuntu 12.04 The other ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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/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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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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Running a command when a CD/DVD/BD inserted

This seems like a simple question to me, but after two nights of searching and tinkering, I haven't been able to find anything promising. I am running a headless Ubuntu server. I want to be able to ...
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advantages and disadvantages of manually un/mounting drives.

What are the advantages or disadvantages of manually un/mounting internal drives? I've never really bothered un-mounting internal HDDs after mounting them the first time around but would like to know ...
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Unable to mount a second hard drive in Ubuntu Server

I am adding a second drive to my Ubuntu Server. It was previously in a FreeNas system, but I got rid of the XFS partition and created an ext4 partition (in an older Ubuntu system). I then backed up ...
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How to move the existing mount point from /usr/local to /usr in Ubuntu 11.04?

I am running Ubuntu 11.04. During installation, instead of /usr, I mistakenly assigned /usr/local to a separate partition. Now I want to change the mount point to default to /usr on boot but I don't ...
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Changing owner of NAS drive

I have setup a Freenas system that I would like to mount on my Ubuntu Desktop. Freenas is configured with cifs service. When I open the freenas server in nautilus smb://freenas/homenas/ I can create ...
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Stop USB mobile broadband automatically mounting as drive

UPDATE 3: This is what I get from lsusb: oshirowanen@laptop:~$ sudo lsusb [sudo] password for oshirowanen: Bus 001 Device 003: ID 19d2:0031 ONDA Communication S.p.A. ZTE MF636 As I have tried the ...
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How to have correct permissions of files from usb disks?

Does anyone have the following problem? I have an Ubuntu box at work and also one at home. I always copy folders/files to/from an usb disk to/from my boxes. I have to change permissions of ...
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How do I mount a WD MyBook World network drive in linux?

I have a WD MyBook World NAS on my home network. I currently use this for Time Machine backups for my Mac but I'd also like to use it as a backup location for my linux box which is running Ubuntu ...
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File sharing with Windows

I have a small home network consisting of two computers. One is running Windows 7 and the other Ubuntu 10.04. Neither computer is permanently on. I am trying to set up file sharing between the two. ...