Questions tagged [automounting]
Automounting is the process where mounting and unmounting of certain filesystems is done automatically by a daemon.
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/etc/fstab is mounted too late, causing some daemon fail
I wrote some entries in /etc/fstab, for example mounting on /tmp.
It seems systemd mounts /etc/fstab entries too late, after some daemon already started, for example Xorg.
Xorg creates .X11-unix in ...
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Ubuntu Virtual Machine File Sharing — Mounting
I am running Windows 10 as my host OS, using Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager 6.0.8 as my virtual machine software, and Ubuntu 18.04.2 is my guest OS. I am trying to set up folder and file sharing.
I ...
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Mount Windows share after Linux Login over OpenLDAP
Can anyone suggest a process that will allow a user to have their Windows network share mounted to a Linux directory after they are logged into the Linux machine via OpenLDAP? The current options I've ...
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Undetermined status for the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits (suid vs nosuid options) on a mounted filesystem?
The man page for mount indicates:
suid Allow set-user-ID or set-group-ID bits to take effect.
nosuid Do not allow set-user-ID or set-group-ID bits to take effect.
but no indication that one or ...
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Kerberos key fails with AutoFS
Our Kubuntu computers are configured to automatically connect to their network drive via AutoFS. When we upgrade machines to Kubuntu 18.04 LTS this AutoFS connection no longer works. It is still ...
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is it possible mount automatically if from some reason mount folder isn't mounted
we create the following mount point and nfsshare folder as share folder on all our linux client machines ( total 1872 machines - redhat 7.2 )
master1:/nfs 41932800 6563840 35368960 16% /...
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Allow all users full read/write access to CIFS share with automount/autofs
How can I configure autofs/automount so that every single user has full access to an auto-mounted CIFS share?
More information
This is what I currently have configured:
/etc/auto.master
/mnt /...
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Understanding Autofs mounting
So my auto.master looks like this, the server I am concerned with is server4-vn01.cifs.
/- /etc/server.cifs --timeout=400 --ghost
/- /etc/server2.cifs --timeout=400 --ghost
/- /etc/server3.cifs --...
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reduce or delete existing root partition and install new distro
I would like to delete my existing Mint root partition which is on /dev/sda2 as its is very large space for root and I am out of space on the /home partition which is on /dev/sda4
I read online that ...
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Alternative to autofs to mount CIFS folders in user home folders in multi-user environment
My use case seems very simple. I want to automount CIFS folder CIFS1 and CIFS2 which exist for all users on my fileserver in each user home during login on this multi-user 18.04 Ubuntu machine.
So ...
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umask not applied when mounting from udev
I have a udev rule which automatically mounts usb device when connected
The rule is the following one :
# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-usbdetectd.rules
KERNEL!="sd[a-z]*", GOTO="...
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Automount LVM logical volume with a udev rule and udisks2
I want to automatically mount an LVM logical volume on an external drive as soon as it is connected to the computer.
The solution I choose here is to use udev to detect plug in events and udisks2 to ...
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How to set fstab to be able to umount my external HDDs under normal user account?
System: Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon.
Disks in this question are considered external HDDs either ext4 or ntfs formatted.
I am interested in how do I manage to set my fstab or whatever else to be able to ...
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AutoFS for mouting Samba share with Kerberos Ticket
I've setup a Samba AD on Debian Stretch. Another stretch client node is able to authenticate using AD credentials.
The domain user has limited rights on the client node, meaning he can't mount ...
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How do I notify some running app of a drive being mounted by usbmount?
I'm using usbmount to mount / unmount USB drives when they are inserted / removed on my Raspbian machine. A C++ app reading MP3 files from the drive and playing them now needs to get a hint every time ...
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Gallium OS cannot mount an sd card
I'm working on an HP Chromebook kip
When I first installed the sd card, it read as mounted, but I couldn't transfer files to it.
In trying to fix that problem, I managed to unmount it (or so I ...
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Setting disk ownership when Nemo mounts a hot-plugged USB block-device?
How does one control automount ownership, i.e. the mount 'seat' ownership?
In Nemo's left pane, under Devices, manually clicking on a plugged-in, but not yet mounted, USB memory device, cause it to ...
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Why does BTRFS filesystem mount automatically?
So I've made a btrfs filesystem that spans across one logical drive (md1) and a USB drive. its all raid 0. so that:
sata\
md1--\
sata/ \
btrfs called "Storage"
usb-------...
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Disable automounting with commands in Xubuntu 18.04
I run a number of Xubuntu 18.04 machines, and set up more from time to time. I want to be able to turn off automounting of USB sticks with commands, so that it becomes an automatic part of my setup.
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Fedora tries to mount deleted swap partition which is not in fstab or systemd
When creating a new swap partition in Fedora 29 to enlarge it I removed the old one using GParted and removed their respective entries in /etc/fstab. I created new entries for the new swap partitions ...
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Unable to edit auto_master under macOS Mojave [closed]
I'm running macOS since several years and I have an auto_master file that contains my mounts config.
On a new Macbook, I cannot edit this file which is in the /etc folder and I have the following ...
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Centos 7.5 autofs posix acl support
On centos 7.5 I have mounted NFS share(from isilon server) via autofs service.
Now when I run
setfacl -d -m g::rwx /path/to/share/location
it gives error
setfacl: /path/to/share/location Operation ...
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nosuid doesn't prevent chmod u+s
I follow a tutorial to secure my /etc/fstab file. This is a certain part about /var and /tmp
UUID=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX /var ext4 defaults,nodev,nosuid,noexec 1 2
UUID=ZZZZ-ZZZZ-ZZZZ /tmp ext4 defaults,...
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Confused with the term mounting in terms of devices [duplicate]
When I plug a device such as an SD card into my Ubuntu computer, I understand that Linux automatically mounts the device. So when I run fdisk -l , the device will appear as for example /dev/sdb . Does ...
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why does a partition marked as noauto still mount on boot?
I just installed Ubuntu 18.04 and I didn't use the default partition structure (ugh.. whole disk in one partition?). My partition table looks like this:
/dev/sda1 - /boot/efi
/dev/sda2 - swap
/dev/...
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Check if CD or DVD is blank
I cannot mount a DVD, most probably because it is blank, so it contains no filesystem.
Is there a way to be sure that the disk is blank?
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How to reserve a frequently used mount point?
I have a drive that I'd like to always automount at a convenient path, say /mnt/my_drive. However, how do I know some other program won't try to use this mountpoint in the future, either preventing my ...
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How is automount behaviour determined?
On a Debian 9.4, a certain external disk, full of Windows partitions (ntfs for 3 of them, UEFI for another one) makes automount don't mount the same partition depending on the usb - disk enclosure ...
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How do I control whether ZFS arrays show in the devices pane in Ubuntu?
I am using Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 with XFCE as my DE.
I have mounted a zfs array 'big-tank' to /media/big-tank, however, it does not show up in the devices pane. Additionally, the leftover space from a ...
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Can autofs be used for a computation cluster? [closed]
I am planning to build a small computation cluster at home. I need share /usr/local and /opt directory on server machine to several computation nodes. There are compiled computation programs and ...
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Mounting nested ZFS filesystems exported via NFS
I have a linux (ubuntu) server with a zfs pool containing nested fileystem.
E.g.:
zfs_pool/root_fs/fs1
zfs_pool/root_fs/fs2
zfs_pool/root_fs/fs3
I have enabled NFS sharing on the root filesystem (...
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Remove spaces from Auto-mount mountpoint
Is it possible to remove spaces from auto-mount mount point label?
For example:
If insert a thumb drive that has the name "Device Name With Spaces" it should auto-mount to /media/...
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How to Automount NTFS partition and make it avaiable without clicking drive in file manager?
I'm running Linux Mint 19, Cinnamon. This particular issue has existed on mint 18 as well as Mate and Cinnamon desktop environments
The problem is this:
I have a single drive partitioned into ...
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Can not access manually mounted hard drive from command line
I am trying to manually install a USB hard drive from the command line on my Raspberry Pi. I am following the usual steps: Create a directory in /media, mount the drive,... However I can not access ...
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NFS Client Hangs After Inactivity On Mounted Folder
We can mount the export using NFS and use it to our hearts content. However, after roughly five minutes of inactivity on the client side, we can no longer interact with the mounted folder. All ...
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Udev rule to automount media devices stopped working after systemd was updated to version 239
For some time I had a working udev rule to automount media devices.
/etc/udev/rules.d/61-mount_media_by_label.rules
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# To propagate udev's mountpoint to the user space, MountFlags must have a ...
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Automatically remount boostfs drive
I'm working with the DataDomain server in our Commvault solutions. Anytime this server is rebooted the network disk in use for the solution does not remount. Right now this means we need to stop some ...
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How to organize mount points of connecting devices?
When I am connecting my external HDD to my Ubuntu box, it mounts several partitions under
/media/<username>/<uuid>
When I am connecting my mobile phone, it mounts under
/var/run/user/&...
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How to mount USB drive in udev rule?
I setup a rule in udev to run a script in background to automount the USB drive. It managed to run the script fine, but the mounting is failing for some reason.
RULE:
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*...
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sshfs with automount failing silently
I am attempting to "permanently" mount a network drive (CentOS 7.4) on my local machine (macOS 10.12 Sierra) using sshfs and automount
First off, is this actually the most appropriate tool to use ...
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Dynamic Drive HotSwapping
Setup is simple. I have a rack-mounted server with 24 5" drive bays in the front. The server runs PLEX. Each HDD is NTFS partitioned and contain optional folders in root. Server is running Debian8 (3....
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Udev inhibits auto mount [duplicate]
I have been running Ubuntu 14.04 until I installed 18.04. On 14.04 I successfully created a udev rule that upon certain USB stick insertion it run a script AND the system used to auto-mount the stick (...
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implementation of mounting external hdd and usb stick
Lately I've been interested in knowing how Ubuntu(bionic) and Fedora(27) implement the auto mount features and especially how to change the mount properties (noatime, relatime and other niceties.)
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How to tell systemd to create a bind mount when plugging in an automounted drive?
I have the following mount and automount units enabled for my external USB drive.
Mount Unit:
[Unit]
Description=Time Machine Drive Mount Service
[Mount]
What=/dev/disk/by-uuid/some-uuid
Where=/...
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Fedora automount external hdd where can I change the mount options [duplicate]
I've been pulling my hair to know where I configure the auto mount configurations for when I plug in my external harddrive.
As I really don't want to have atime changed when I have my external hdd.
I'...
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Automount LDAP home folders in client machines
I have created couple of users on my ldap, and setup a couple of ubuntu ldap client machines, where users can login with their accounts. I now want to share their home folders and make it centralised ...
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Unable to access/(auto)-mount SD card on Fedora 28
I am trying to access SD cards on Fedora 28, but do not have any success. System info is as follows:
$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:...
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Auto-remount CIFS share
I have a CIFS mount in fstab which works fine, except when something goes wrong with the network or the remote server and it doesn't recover. I want the share to auto-remount in the event of failure, ...
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autofs mount all devices from specific type
I want to mount ALL USB devices with one autofs entry.
I can't mount the device by it's ID, Label or something like that.
I need to duplicate it and don't know every single usb device on every single ...
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No entry in fstab but partition is mounted at bootup
I am using ubuntu (ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS with a 4.4.113 kernel) on an embedded device and i see only one entry in fstab
/dev/mmcblk0p7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
when i ...
