Questions tagged [automounting]
Automounting is the process where mounting and unmounting of certain filesystems is done automatically by a daemon.
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How to automatically mount ZFS external USB flash drive when I insert it
In Ubuntu 20.04, I installed the zfsutils-linux package and formatted an external USB thumbdrive to use ZFS (sudo zpool create mypool /dev/sdb). I then changed its mount point to /media/user/mypool (...
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How to unplug/unmount USB Flash card, which was automounted?
I have configured my flash card to automount with the following lines inf fstab:
UUID=6364-3963 /mnt/Flash03 auto noauto,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=2
UUID=3537-3561 /mnt/...
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How to auto-mount external drive without using /etc/fstab
I have mounted an external drive using an entry/etc/fstab , UUID=ba6274de-e241-43ef-9dd0-5147c29e883a /mnt/500GB_Seagate_Drive xfs defaults,x-gvfs-show 0 0
I have other drives with do not have an ...
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Automount USB flash drive on CLI (no fstab solutions please!)
I have been looking for how to automount a USB flash/thumb drive on a Linux machine which does not have a GUI. So, it must be CLI-only solution. The most common answer I found was based on editing ...
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Can I auto-mount all users in /home (using `*` key) except one?
Starting on a server where /home had just one user, I thought "adding" the home directories of the other users via NFS using automount's * and &.
Also the NFS has a home directory (but ...
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Error in Starting Linux Operating System Due to Unmounted /home Partition
I have a problem with my Linux OS (Ubuntu), I was working normally, and suddenly I couldn't do anything, the files on my home were disabled, after the restart, the OS booted up, but not the graphical ...
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Using /etc/auto.master.d together with wildcard `*` to mount `/home`
My problem is similar to that described in Need example use of autofs.master.d/:
I wanted to mount individual users' home directories to /home/*user* using both, * wildcard and directory /etc/auto....
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Modify Fedora behavior when plugging in Canon DSLR via USB
I'm using gphoto2 to turn my old DSLR into a webcam over USB.
As soon as the USB is plugged, my Fedora mounts its SD Card as a drive. Here's what I need to do each time manually:
Unmount SD Card (I ...
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Automount as another user (not logged)
When I plug a USB Key on my desktop install of a redhat fork, USB is automounted as /run/media//. I would like that plugged removable device will be automounted for another logged user (not the ...
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How to add or modify systemd mount targets/conditions in unit file
I've got a .mount file that I globbed together as /etc/systemd/system/opt-hass-config.mount
[Unit]
Description=Mount the config dir of hass.mydomain.com
[Mount]
What=//[IP ADDRESS]/config
Where=/opt/...
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Drives under /media/user/ are denoted by an alphanumeric string - how are they generated?
I noticed that my thumb drives and hard drivers are in the location /media/user and are denoted as a string of alphabets and numbers instead of their names such as 1A2B-3C4D. I never named my drives ...
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BTRFS: error (device dm-0) in btrfs_run_delayed_refs:2150: errno=-5 10 failure
I have run this error while trying to boot my fedora linux 36 from my external SSD. I did boot it at home yesterday quite well, shut it down this morning. When I got to work today and tried booting it ...
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How do I manually trigger systemd's "auto mounting" of encrypted partitions/drives?
I set up two LUKS encrypted drives to automount on system startup (using crypttab and a LUKS file key). It works fine, but unfortunately, if I disconnect one of the drives, the "auto decrypting&...
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Unable to replicate fuse sshfs setup, with regular sshfs command
Goal: mount remote folder via sshfs on local system on boot
I have an empty USB attached to my machine: /media/steve/downloads-remote/
There is one folder inside the drive Downloads
The permissions of ...
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what is the right way of mounting an ext4 formatted ssd or nvm?
I have mounted 2 external disks like this shown below (in fstab)
UUID=e3831bf2-d85d-459f-8091-4af1d3c6ee41 /mnt/ssd ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=38cebf19-8cea-40ce-9014-d6f2f9d884ac ...
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Unmount/mount drive when it's disconnected/connected, automatically
Is there a way for a systemd.mount unit to detect the state of a drive without having to reboot the computer, or reload the unit? If not, is there any other way to achieve this?
I would like to ...
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systemd automount unit: run only when server is reachable
I am using systemd automount units (see below) to mount network shares on my laptop
(debian bullseye). This works fine in principle but I have one big issue:
At home it is enough to set TimeoutSec to ...
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How do i safely remove a secondary mounted root in the fstab file
On my computer i have 2 drives, a 128GB SSD and a 1.8TB HDD. I mount the HDD on "/home/___/mountpoints/HDD" but today i found that leads me back to "/"
The "fstab" file ...
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gdm's systemd user process triggers automount
I'm trying to set up a hard drive that's in an external enclosure, so I added the following fstab entry:
LABEL=Mothership /var/local/Mothership btrfs noauto,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-...
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Mount unexpectedly calling espanso
The following happens as soon as I combine -a and -o remount - one flag individually does nothing, the adding of -f only removes expected permission warnings. Running as root produces the same output. ...
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Give executable permissions to binary files on a USB
I have a desktop application that provides the user with a tarball (.tar.gz) that they can unpack to find the binary that can be run with executable permissions which starts the overall program. This ...
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Mounting drive as unpriviliged user with systemd mount unit or systemd-mount
Is there any way to mount an external drive as an unpriviliged user, either with a pre-defined mount unit or with a transiently generated one with systemd-mount?
If I write a file run-media-myuser-...
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automount disks but with dev name, not some random numbers
On Linux, all connected disks have ambiguous mountpoint names to user.
For example, if I connect a USB then Linux (udev?) mounts it to a directory like this:
/media/username/78128SDGHJ23G
But I want ...
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Direct mapping works in autofs but indirect mapping does not
I have an NFS server where the /etc/exports file contains:
/shared *(rw,no_root_squash)
I want to use autofs in another machine (Rocky Linux 8) to mount that folder but only the direct mapping method ...
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How can I automount my drive immediately on connection rather than on first access? [duplicate]
I have an external drive set up in my /etc/fstab with noatime,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=500ms,x-systemd.automount,users.
I also have several dependencies set up which only start when this drive ...
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How to determine if mysql is using directory under mounted directory?
I currently have MySQL using /home/foo/data/database as its datadir. With /home/foo/data/database being a mounted raid 1 array. The problem I am having is that every once in awhile on boot MySQL is ...
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File manager not authorized to mount external drives
I have a problem authorizing my file manager to mount external drives. Inside thunar, I get this error:
failed to mount "flash-drive"; not authorized to perform operation
I've already tried ...
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SDCard reader not functioning at boot Lubuntu 21.10
I have installed lubuntu-21.10 on a Asus C423NA-BCLN5 device.
It comes with kernel 5.13.0-39-generic.
Now, I am having an issue with it's, otherwise perfect, card reader.
I have an SD card inside, ...
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Systemd Automount Failing on Program Execution
I set up a systemd automount for an external drive by UUID. I basically just wanted the drive to mount whenever it's accessed. It was working fine but I noticed some issues when loading Evince first, ...
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Drive mounted with flags different from /etc/fstab - not respecting suid, dev, or exec
I have an ext4 mounted with the flags rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,user,async in /etc/fstab but running mount after mounting gives rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user.
How do I get it to mount exactly as ...
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Auto-mounting the 2nd internal HD
I'm editing the fstab file to automount my secondary HD and I would like to know how to setup the 'noatime' in the command line.
The command I have so far is:
UUID=DEVICEID /PATH ntfs-3g rw,...
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What happens when mounting network drives in fstab fails
I am responsible for maintaining a Linux (Ubuntu) machine in my company. We mounted some NFS network drives. In irregular intervals (during holidays), the machine is forcefully restarted because the ...
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Unable to mount internal hdd - An error occurred while accessing 'Basic data partition'
I have 2 disks in my PC, an SSD with my linux system on it and a HDD with windows and some other stuff. Now I keep getting the following error, which appeared overnight without changing the system, ...
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mount command on Alpine Linux doesn't like octal sequence for space in fstab
on alpine Linux, I can't mount automatically a cifs directory which has a space in the name, but manually it may work.
With this /etc/fstab snippet it doesn't work:
//192.168.245.1/My\040Space ...
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How can different devices represented by the same device file be automatically mounted to different mounting points?
In Ubuntu, even if different block devices (e.g. an external hard drive and a flash drive) are represented by the same device file (e.g. /dev/sdb1) one after another, they are automatically mounted ...
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What could have caused automount to try to mount this nonexistent directory?
In /var/log/messages I found entries like this
Oct 18 2:10:15 linux automount[946]: attempting to mount entry /home/randomusername
Oct 18 2:10:15 linux automount[946]: key "randomusername" ...
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In search for good practices: Mounting disks
I think I did many terrible things at the past, empty directories everywhere, whatever priviledges they had and even mounting a fs inside other mounted fs.
Now I want to make the things right and ask ...
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Why is /etc/fstab preferred over systemd unit files?
The systemd.mount(5) man page says (emphasis mine):
Mount units may either be configured via unit files, or via /etc/fstab (see fstab(5) for details). Mounts listed in /etc/fstab will be converted ...
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Howto prevent Dolphin from triggering /foo/nfs-share.automount
since i switched to auto-suspend there's an unwanted delay when reactivating due to the lost nfs-mounts (debian 11)
I created some auto(u)mount (systemd) which is working fine... as long as dolphin is ...
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How to allow "guix-daemon" to "remount" in SELinux?
I've installed Guix and installed the bundled SELinux policy manually. But according to Ricardo Wurmus, as of 30 June 2021:
There are really just two ways: either 1) disable SELinux (or set it to ...
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How to figure out what is auto-mounting external drives
A long long time ago I apparently installed something that automounts removable drives to the /media directory. Now I can't figure out how to unmount stuff anymore. sudo umount on the correct /dev ...
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Systemd service that only runs when USB Drive is mounted
I've been searching for an elegant way of automating a very tedious process.
This is the workflow I want to achieve:
Plug in the USB Disk (single partition)
sdX1 gets automatically mounted to /mnt/...
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How to bind mount a directory in .bashrc without sudo privilege
NOTE: I'm working in WSL2, but my issues lies entirely within the Linux side of things. Please let me know if this is not the right place for this.
I am needing to mount --bind a directory whenever ....
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automount removable media using udev in NixOS
I want an udevrule to automatically mount usb sticks or sd-cards, if plugged into a terminal-computer. The way I tried to achieve this was adding an udevrule and make use of pmount's ability to mount ...
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Consistent auto-mount of external hard-drive
Adding /dev/sdb1 /home/[user]/external_drive ntfs defaults,noatime 0 2 to /etc/fstab auto-mounts external drive after machine start/reboot.
However, if additional usb drive was plugged in during the ...
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Systemd automount with custom command
I use tomb to store some files. I want to use a systemd .automount unit so that whenever I try to access these files, the tomb is automatically mounted. However, tombs are not mounted with mount, they ...
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How to solve failure in plugging external DVD driver in Ubuntu 20.04?
I have bought an external DVD driver but, after plugging (or booting with the unit already plugged) I see the unit listed in the resources of the computer but I cannot access it:
If I try to access ...
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FreeBSD: Automount to specific location
First of all, I read Vermaden's blog which explained a couple different systems used for automounting. I like to use included utilities so I opted for autofs. Based on the information in the blog I ...
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Prevent systemd from unmounting a partition mounted by a systemd service
I have a custom systemd service that automatically mounts some partitions under certains conditions. The service executes a shell script containing some mount commands. When I execute it directly, ...
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Which is the correct mechanism for auto-mounting a USB flash drive at boot?
I'm seeing apparently conflicting information on the proper way to auto-mount USB flash drives at boot. Most instructions on how to do it say to use an entry in fstab. Gnome Disks has a built-in ...
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