Questions tagged [automounting]
Automounting is the process where mounting and unmounting of certain filesystems is done automatically by a daemon.
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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
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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Persistent trouble with FAT32 formatted USB pen drive mounting as read-only drives [on hold]
My 16GB USB pen drive mounts as read-only on Ubuntu 17.10. I tried reformatting/checking on mac, windows & on a desktop with Opensuse.
I tried all the suggestions on different forums/blogs
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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
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 ...
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automount USB stick ext4 on Fedora XFCE
I have USB stick with two partitions VFAT and ext4. When I plug in stick, VFAT partition is RW automounted but ext4 partition is RO for user because is mounted under root:root
# df -T
/dev/sdc5 ext4 ...
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Trigger script to run when USB drive connected with no user logged on on Ubuntu 18.04
I'm working on a DIY NAS project running on Ubuntu 18.04.
I want to implement the following feature: when an external USB disk is connected (could be a specific disk identified by UUID or ...
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Understanding USB message logs to troubleshoot USB automounting
I am trying to troubleshoot an issue where on one server my USB automounts whereas on another server it isn't. Comparing the logs for both instances, I am trying to understand what each line means.
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Wait to start Transmission daemon until after USB drive has mounted?
I'm running transmission-daemon as a systemd service on OSMC. When opening its remote control web interface after a reboot all transfers are almost always halted with the message "Error: No data found!...
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Debian 9: Which package is required to automount USB-drives?
I successfully installed Debian 9 (Stretch) together with desktop environment LXQt. To keep the system minimal and clean I disabled auto-installation of all recommended and suggested packages via
APT:...
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Does mounting a USB device automatically modify it?
Most popular desktop Linux distributions automatically mount USB storage devices when the devices are connected or at least provide an easy way to mount them from the GUI. Does mounting a USB storage ...
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is it possible to modify GUI mount options?
I'm using Fedora 25 with Cinnamon as a DE and I wonder if there is a way to modify mount options that are triggered when clicking on a partition name in the GUI.
precisely I want to know:
What is ...
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systemd automount files system as read write, not working as expected (read only)
My problem is systemd automount is mounting my ntfs filesystem as read only dispite me setting the options=rw
Following some online reference sites on setting up systemd with automount I created two ...
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Identical fstab options end up with different permission
I recently attached a SSD to my system, with the old HDD in the DVD drive bay I set up the file mount option in the /etc/fstab file.
The permissions are as follows
for SSD:
/dev/sda2 /home/arun/...
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NFS shares on a laptop
I need to mount NFS shares on my laptop when I am in the office and plugged into a wired Ethernet connection (via a dock). Is there a reliable way to automatically mount and unmount NFS shares in this ...
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Is parted auto mounting new partitions?
There appears to be an undesired side effect to parted creating a new partition, if the partition previously existed it will be automatically mounted, even before it has been formatted.
This is ...
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Mount multiple USB devices automatically Ubuntu 16.04
I'm trying to connect multiple USB devices to my 16.04 Ubuntu machine, some mount automatically and others don't.
I have to mount the device manually via files (screenshot attached)
Does anyone ...
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fstab mount nested folders in order
I have a partition mounted to /home and want to mount another partition as $HOME/Steam. The /home partition is encrypted and only mounted at login (not by fstab btw), while the Steam partition is not ...
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Automount windows shared folder on Linux
I have a shared folder on windows and I usually mount it like this
mkdir /media/somedir
sudo mount -t cifs //servername/sharename /media/somedir
The problem is that once I restart the machine the ...
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How to prevent automount (autofs) changing protection of indirect map mountpoint
How do I prevent autofs (automount) from changing the protection of its owned mountpoint.
# chmod 2771 /cust
# ls -ld /cust
drwxrws--x. 2 root root 4096 Mar 13 14:43 /cust
# systemctl start autofs
# ...
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Deconfigure RAID1 and mount the second hard drive in Debian
The dedicated server running on Debian has two 512 SSDs, both part of a single RAID1 disk array. There are many guides for that without losing any data on the disk but could not find the complete one ...
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Cryptsetup Device Timeout When Automounting Through Systemd
For some reason systemd gives timeout in one of my cryptsetup devices when trying to mount it. Here are the Units and script:
udev rules:
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", ATTRS{serial}=="...
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automount/unmounting of mmc device in embedded linux-kernel 2.6
I'm developing an application on embedded linux kernel 2.6 powered device and Auto mounting and un-mounting process is not works correctly.
e.g. checking dmesg show kernel correctly determine ...
