Questions tagged [automounting]
Automounting is the process where mounting and unmounting of certain filesystems is done automatically by a daemon.
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autofs shall mount depending on network/address
when I use my notebook not in my office network, the auto mounter should not try to mount my /etc/auto.share entries.
Is there a setting avoiding the mount depending on the network/address?
The big ...
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VirtualBox `shared folder` not automounting
I've set up a Shared Folder in VirtualBox marked as Read-Only, Automount and Make Permanent as a Machine Folder, but whenever I move into the vm and use my previous tried-and-true approach (from older ...
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Problems using autofs to mount an LDAP user's home directory
Goal: When an LDAP user logs in from a remote server, the home user created in the LDAP server is automounted. I need to do this with autofs.
OS: Centos 7.7
Setup: The LDAP server, labipa.dthacker....
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rclone mount webdav whenever a certain application is started
I'd like to automatically mount a nextcloud directory (webdav) with my keepass-database in it using rclone whenever I start KeepassXC and unmount it after closing Keepass. Is there any way to do this (...
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Conditional mounts with systemd
I wish to utilize several conditions to either do a bind mount or an NFS mount as described below. I have seen (limited) discussion on simple conditional mounts, but I have not seen any examples for ...
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I have no attempts to query a password when using a crypttab
I want to auto-mount my encrypted(veracrypt) partition at system boot time.
According to the documentation, I have three attempts, but after the first wrong attempt, the system boots and I get an ...
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RHEL - Mounting CIFS Permission Denied (Error code - 13)
I understand that a lot of people have posted on this issue, I have read through a whole lot of them before I try to post this question. I have tried the many of the provided solution, none have works ...
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Automount zfs on login, auto unmount on logoff
What I want
I want to login (ssh, gdm, or any other way) and have my zfs datasets mounted with my login password. I don't want to have to type in my password a second time. When I log off I want the ...
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Mount ext4 with UUID in /etc/fstab
I'm trying to mount USB thumb drive to my router.
My USB thumb drive is 32GB,divided to two partitions :
16GB NTFS and 16GB ext4 .
The 16GB NTFS partition will be automatically detected in router as ...
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How to mount Nikon Z6 as mass storage device?
When I plug in my Nikon Z6 in via USB it mounts with a weird URL:
gphoto2://[usb:005,004]/
I can access the videos/photos on the card, but it is mounted as root and I cannot delete them (which is ...
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Manjaro linux error: Failed to start Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
I am using Manjaro Linux with 5.7.9-1-MANJARO kernel. The system boots, but with an error
Failed to start Remount Root and Kernel File Systems. I took a look at the Manjaro Forums as well as the ...
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Linux not mounting flash drive when flash's LED fades in and out
My flash drive, a Transcend 16GB USB 3.1, with a built-in LED, has a new lighting pattern that correlates with Fedora 32 Linux, kept evergreen, on my Dell Latitude E6400 laptop, failing to automount ...
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CentOS 8 is not auto mounting my APFS partition
I have a USB External SSD with 4 disk partitions.
The file system of partitions are
APFS
ExFAT
ext4
NTFS
I'm using kernel version
$ uname -r
4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64
checking ls -al /dev/sd*...
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Why is automounting not working for this program?
systemd's automounts are generally working very well here. There is one exception: The VDR program fails to start after a reboot because it can't access its data directory, which is mounted via ...
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2 SSDs, different mount points
I have 3 disks:
1TB HDD with 2 partitions. This is where my Ubuntu is installed.
uuid: 4bed12f2-c8be-4cb8-943b-7a92b810322d
240 GB SSD. uuid: 0f2bd77d-5c9b-412f-be15-a18eabe1a62d
250 GB SSD. uuid: ...
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simple bash script mount drive
I want to, after a short delay, mount one or two drives labeled achive1 and archive2 respectively.
/dev/sdb1,/mnt/cee17e82-ab0d-424a-988c-70abe8f30f91
/dev/sdc1,/mnt/6c5d1f6c-3113-4cb9-b64e-...
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Duplicated root mount point
I'm using a dual boot computer with Mint and Arch Linux, both sharing some home sub-directories via symbolic link, the link was point to /mnt/shared where I mounted a partition.
Everything was working ...
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Auto-mount disk at start-up on Fedora 32 Linux
I can't get a disk to auto-mount at start-up since I upgraded to Fedora 32 (from Fedora 31, with clean install).
Although if I issue a sudo mount -a after boot, the disk mounts immediately.
I didn't ...
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Run a script as root to map and then mount a LUKS volume, at user login?
I have a LUKS volume (cryptsetup) which I want to mount each time I boot: not automatically (e.g. with keyfile), but by entering the "passphrase" in a Terminal.
My first approach was to try an @...
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Is it practically possible to make an encrypted partition be auto-mounted without entering a passphrase?
I've just discovered the joys of encryptsetup.
I'm now wondering about the possibility of auto-mounting a partition which is encryptsetup ("LUKS") formatted.
I found this article, which talks about ...
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VeraCrypt and crypttab: cannot automount 2 VeraCrypt volumes
I have 2 partitions, /dev/sda1 named as data1 in /etc/crypttab, and /dev/sdb1 named as data2, that I have encrypted using VeraCrypt, and more precisely I have encrypted them as hidden volumes. I would ...
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unable to mount device
Im trying to use two atapi devices at the same type one EIDE and one SATA, reported by
dmesg | egrep -i --color 'cdrom|dvd|cd/rw|writer'
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[ 23.551700] pktcdvd: pktcdvd0: writer mapped to sr1
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How to have a luks-protected LVM volume mounted at boot
I have my primary Ubuntu install on one disk, and a secondary install (for offline backups of the primary) on another disk. For convenience, I would like the root volume of the second install mounted ...
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How to allow non-root users to mount bitlocker encrypted external drives?
As a non-root user I would like to be able to mount external hard drives which have been encrypted with microsoft bitlocker. The admin (with root access) can set something up if I can tell him how to ...
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Odd and inconsistent behavior of gnome polkit authentication agent upon mounting USB drive
System: xfce4 on Debian 10 with lightdm and polkit-gnome-authentication-agent1
I'm having a baffling problem where in some sessions I get the authentication prompt upon mounting a USB drive and get ...
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Mount vs automount systemd units: which one to use for what?
After doing some research about systemd units, I found two different kinds of mount unit: the .mount and the .automount. At first, it seemed logical to me that the automount unit would mount a mount ...
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ext4 partition from remote computer shared on network not mounting on linux via fstab
The first one works the second mount doesn't. The first mount disk D is ntfs attached via USB on a windows computer and H is attached via USB2 on same windows computer .
/etc/fstab
//192.168.5.167/D ...
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Is a systemd automount point mounted or not?
mountpoint reports a mountpoint even if a systemd automount is not mounted:
% mountpoint /media/ssd
/media/ssd is a mountpoint
% mount | grep /media/ssd
systemd-1 on /media/ssd type autofs (rw,...
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USB drive device name missing partition number
How does Linux determine the partition number on USB drives (/dev/sdX**#**)?
There is a brand of USB drives that when inserted into Linux don't install with a partition number. For example, they ...
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Why does default mount point of removable media contains username?
I'm using Manjaro Linux.
When I plug new removable devices like USB,
it is auto mounted on
/run/media/<username>/<label>.
Why does this path contains username?
I mean, it is plugged to ...
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Find out what is mounting my external HD and change ownership?
OS: Linux Mint 18.3.
I have an NTFS-formatted external HD which just gets automounted when I boot up. I'm just trying to find out what actually does that, and whether it's possible to set the ...
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Can’t mount mapper device at boot on Debian
My /etc/fstab file is the following:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/root / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 1
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs mode=0777 ...
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Which services/daemons/etc are responsible for (auto)mounting on Linux?
I have a Makefile (source here) which uses Raspberry Pi 4 Arch Linux .tar.gz image and generates /boot FAT and / (root) EXT4 partition images to be used later for generating SD card or for further ...
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Trying to automatically mount a backup device on plugin and run a script
I am currently trying to automate backups for my laptop and while doing so fell down some rabbit holes by using old and no longer working solutions.
Now I'd like to ask for some advice to improve upon ...
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How do I automount usb drives in Linux (Debian)?
With every new release the way to automount USB drives in Linux seems to change (fortunately I'm using Debian, so I'm only losing a few days on this every 2 years). We used to have usbmount, udisks, ...
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Mount a partition when accessing a file in it or cd into it
I'd like a partition on a hard-disk to be mounted
when I try to access it.
For example, if /dev/sda2 has label SDA2, when I
cd /media/root/SDA2
/dev/sda2 will be mounted on /media/root/SDA2.
I ...
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Auto-mount cryfs on startup
cryfs requires a password/passphrase entry for mounting a filesystem.
I want to automatically mount a FS at startup
(like calling a script from inside of rc.local to do the job).
(the encrypted ...
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Drive mounts with mount, but not autofs automount
Second day on this, so I'm definitely doing something wrong.
Can mount a spare drive to user's home subdirectory mount point, with correct permissions for user to use it.
Doing that with just simple ...
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On systemd-based systems how can I control mount options based on properties of the volume to be mounted?
In particular I would like to be able to control umask/dmask based on properties such as the file system type being mounted.
Is there a way to control mount options based on the file system type with ...
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NFS4 “Stale file handle” after server reboot
I've researched a lot on this and have concluded that this is actually a bug of Linux NFS, as all similar questions don't have satisfying answers, like,
Stale file handle after server reboot
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How to setup a “typical” USB auto mounting on Gnome?
On arch-linux, when gnome is installed - it doesn't setup a USB auto mounter by default.
While the wiki has examples of different auto-mounters,
how would I setup a typical auto-mounter (what gnome ...
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Drive mounted multiple times
I am running Kubuntu, installed on my computer's SSD. I have an HDD, which used to be mounted as DATA. Then I ran a Docker container that mapped one of its volumes to a directory in DATA. I'm not ...
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Struggles with udev
I want to automount my SD-Card on Ubuntu. I tried the following rules using udevadm (or /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd).
KERNEL!="sd[a-z][0-9]", GOTO="media_by_label_auto_mount_end"
# Import FS infos
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Automatically mount all USB drives under certain folder
I'm trying to make Raspbian automatically mount all available paritions on USB devices under a certain folder.
I heard of fstab rules but those seem to require knowing the UUID of all devices meaning ...
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unmount SD card makes file checksum change
I have an SD card mounted by Lubuntu at /media/$USERNAME/COREELEC/
I need to copy a file from one directory to another and rename it. However if I check the md5sum (or sha512sum) after I unmount it ...
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unable to chmod inside shared folder of virtualbox
I have shared a folder from Windows on to my virtual machine.
The shared folder is being mounted correctly, and I am able to read write within the folder, but unable to change permissions of any file ...
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Is there a place / way to automatically mount an NFS share at boot that is not fstab?
I have an NFS share that I want to mount at boot, but cannot mount from fstab because it appears to cause blocking boot problems (centOS 7) (not yet sure exactly why, all I know is that rooting in in ...
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(Ubuntu 19.04) NFS share won't automount at boot: 'mount.nfs: Network is unreachable'
I cannot figure out how to mount an NFS share at boot. I've tried a couple different things (listed below) and nothing has worked. In both instances, they require network-online.target, yet they don'...
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mount /dev/sdc1 /media works but fstab fails to mount
I'm running archlinux and have an ext3 10Tb internal harddrive that is failing to mount on boot through the fstab entry. If I use mount /dev/sdc1 /media, the mount succeeds however attempting to do a ...
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Cleanly unmount a usb drive with systemd
I configured an automount for a USB drive by adding an extra rule to /etc/fstab as belows
/dev/sda1 /media vfat noauto,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=2,x-systemd.device-timeout=...
