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 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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Btrfs partition won't mount during boot using fstab
i have just reinstalled my raspberry pi 4 with raspbian lite 64bit. While doing this i also switched from using sd-card-boot to usb-boot and installed the os on an ssd. Now i still want to use the sd ...
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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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Why autofs does not automount newly connected disks?
I added entry for my disk and when I connect it and then run autofs (i.e. either run the service or run automount) the disk is automounted. But if I run autofs first and then connect the disk nothing ...
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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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Prevent Nautilus from bringing up file viewer on mount
I have a script that generates an SD card image file. Omitting the copying of data to the SD card image, here it is (please forgive the lack of error checking and any typos):
SDFILE=/tmp/sdcard.img
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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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Mounting new ext4 to /mnt and editing /etc/fstab file
I have a basic DOS/MBR partition scheme with the partitions
/dev/sda1 /boot
/dev/sda2 /
/dev/sda swap
/dev/sda6 /home
I am needing to mount an ext4 partition to /mnt, edit the etc/fstab file and ...
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New to Linux and need help in activating my new swapspace and mounting ext4 partition to /mnt
I am new to Linux and I am working on the configuration of my Linux OS for a project. I am using the Oracle VM Virtualbox and using Ubuntu 20.04 I added a DOS/MBR table scheme during installation and ...
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Prevent pam_mount unmounting if there are other active sessions?
I use pam_mount to decrypt (gocryptfs) and mount my home directory:
# /etc/pam.d/system-login excerpt
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session [success=2 default=ignore] pam_exec.so quiet /usr/bin/mountpoint -q "/home/$...
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autofs mount local directory when nfs unavailable
I want to have my home directory be an NFS mount when it's available, or a local directory when it's not. Think of a laptop that I might want to take somewhere off of my normal network. What I have ...
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root filesystem not listed when executing mount
I'm running slackware 14.0 linux.
I was recently doing an open office document and sent emails out and then my internet was cutting out then after a bit I got hinted that my disk was full then I ...
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Making USB devices writeable for users other than root
I have a USB device, formatted FAT32 (for the widest possible compatibility), plugged into a system running CentOS 5 (yes, I know it's antiquated).
The whole purpose of its being plugged in is to ...
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How to automount USB drive synchronously on Debian Buster? Is it safe?
I hate it when I copy a large file (~2 GB) to an USB drive and it shows a "fast" progress bar, only to wait indefinitely afterwards, until the copy is finally done. So I'd prefer to mount ...
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Automount any usb on linux (Without using UUID)
I am trying to get my linux system (only accessible by the command line) to have plug and play usb functionality. I've found many threads about automounting etc, but all of them require an UUID or ...
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Overriding udisks2 /media/$USER/mount with custom fixed mount point for specific volume, under Debian Buster
I am using Debian Buster, 10.7, and I am relatively new to udev/udisks2/systemd and have been making a effort to get to know them better and have learned quite a lot, though I cannot seem to figure ...
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Launcher sshfs mount disappears after terminal is closed
I want to make a launcher in my MATE desktop that executes script for sshfs mount:
#!/bin/bash
sshfs login@server:/ /media/user/MOUNT_FOLDER/
This script is called by my launcher:
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-...
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Use fstab to mount luks encrypted drive to subfolder within home
Fresh install of Lubuntu 20.04 on system with Windows 10 and Lubuntu installed on 256GB NVME drive to dual boot.
Boot drive is /dev/nvme0n1p2
Home folder is therefore /dev/nvme0n1p2/home/username
I ...
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How to resolve the delay in mounting NFS export with autofs?
When mounting an NFS mount with autofs, I experience a delay in the mount (between 10 seconds to a minute). How can I avoid this delay while still resolving the server name via DNS?
I am using ...
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mount all volumes with udisks2 without systemd
I'm trying to replicate my setup (Jwm, PcManfm, udisks2, gvfs, polkit-1) on a distro without systemd.
I want to be able to mount on demand all internal and external devices as a user from PcManfm side ...
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Error mounting: mount(2), file exists
I've been working with files on external drive (partition table GPT, file system BTRFS). For some reason drive turned off and now I can't remount it. Whatever I do this error shows up:
Error mounting /...
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Prevent ZFS pool automount
There's a Manjaro installation on ZFS that I'd like to chroot into from a rescue system on a USB stick. When booting the rescue system, the ZFS pools are automatically detected and mounted, if ...
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Mac os catalina and automount of Linux nfs4 resources
I want to automount all my nfs4 shares in one folder(on Linux and other Unix is really easy).
Using the good old mount works perfect on MacOs Catalina
sudo mount -t nfs -o resvport,nfsvers=4 slack64:/ ...
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How to have hdd's auto-mounted and usable by all users?
My computer has 3 disk drives:
256GB ssd (root and swap partitions)
60GB ssd (ext4)
2TB hdd (ext4)
I want to automatically mount the two extra drives at boot and I want all users to be able to read/...
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Configure /etc/fstab for external hard drive
In my /etc/fstab I have the line
UUID=c99...04c4 /media/myExtDrive ext4 defaults,user,nobootwait 0 0
for my external hard drive. But when I plug it in and try to mount it with the ...
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How to disable automounting on Nvidia Jetson Nano
I have built an embedded system, originally it was on a PC based board, but I more recently moved it to a jetson nano. I started with NVidia's ubuntu 18.04 image, removed the desktop and replaced it ...
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share /home with nfs automount
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vi /etc/exports
/home 10.10.10..0/24(rw,sync)
systemctl restart nfs-server
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mkdir -p /home/user
showmount -e 10.10.10.1
vi /etc/auto.master
/- /etc/auto.home
/home /etc/auto.home
vi /...
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Problems with automounting NFS on RHEL8
I've run into some problems when configuring autofs on CentOS and I would really appreciate your help with it ^^
I have to VMs:
CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003, IP address: 10.110.163.10
Two NFS ...
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Is there a tool to monitor activity on mount point or directory?
I'm trying to find out why automount timeout does not kick in and need to detect any system activity that access a specific catalog or subtree, e.g the cifs mount point.
My suspicion is that some cron/...
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