Questions tagged [fstab]
/etc/fstab is the configuration file which contains the information about all available partitions and indicates how and where they are mounted.
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gvsf (GNOME virtual file system) on usb-ios, when I git clone, I get: fatal: could not set 'core.filemode' to 'false' , due to OS service to rename
I usb-connect my ios device on my linux laptop. The linux system mounts a gvfs point to it (/run/user/1000/gvfs/afc:host=xxxxxxxxxx,port=3), I change directory there, I can rsync back and forth, but I ...
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Dynamically select which partition to mount based on root partition
I have got two readonly root partitions (say roota and rootb) which operating system is installed. This is for a basic A/B partition update scheme and after updating my system these partitions are ...
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How to delete all UUID from fstab but not the UUID of boot filesystem
on the following example fstab file, we want to delete all lines that start with UUID , but except the UUID line with boot word
/dev/mapper/VG100-lv_root / xfs defaults ...
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No bootable devices found for Fedora
As a word of caution: I am inexperienced and moved some partitions around when attempting to dual boot windows from Fedora, I didn't take note of what I was doing and so only have my current ...
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After updating computer enters in Emergency mode in KDE neon
I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right place. If it's so just let me know. Yesterday updated normally and when it rebooted it opens with the "emergency mode" and the "journalctl -xb&...
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mount.cifs permission denied
I failed to mount a network drive and got mount.cifs permission denied
$ nano ~/.smbcredentials
username=xxx
password=CwF
$ sudo nano /etc/fstab
//192.168.1.4/xxx /home/pi/mycloud cifs credentials=/...
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Does fstab make sense for chroot jail?
I've created an fstab file (to mount /dev/pts and /proc, with the bind option) as part of a jail but when I chroot to the jail neither filesystem is mounted. This makes me wonder when the fstab for a ...
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/etc/fstab syntax incompatible between auto-mount and manual mount of CIFS
When I use this fstab syntax:
# grep raven /etc/fstab
\\raven.example.com\raven /raven cifs vers=2.0,credentials=/root/creds_smb_raven,\
uid=5000,gid=6000,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=...
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udisks excluding system global mount options when mounting
I have updated my embedded linux, but the udisksctl does not work as expected anymore. If I try to mount a ext4 formatted flash drive I get the following error:
root@system:~# udisksctl mount -b /dev/...
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Automounting LUKS encrypted external usb when device inserted without error or hanging on boot if not present
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Have an external device, encrypted with LUKS, automatically mount when inserted and not cause any issues if not present on boot.
Most questions on this topic refer to mounting on boot - this ...
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Cannot mount device
I needed to restore my Ubuntu 20.04 server after trying out 22.04 for a bit. (Certain functions I require are not yet ready for 22.04.) The restore (which was a simple dd operation from a dd backup) ...
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data occupying space but cannot be found
when configuring an automount via fstab I made a mistake with defining the correct datasystem. Instead of ext4 I configured it to be ntfs. Whenever I copied files into the system I assume it copied it ...
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Error: mount, as it already exists. Duplicate entry in /etc/fstab?
When I try to give access to the same target directory to multiple FTP users using these commands:
sudo mount --bind /home/max/home/ExLand /home/riven/Desktop/ExLand
sudo mount --bind /home/r1ven/home/...
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How to fix "Bad magic number in super-block"
I try to move all data from one SSD to another SSD. The old SSD is 500 GB, and the new SSD is 1000 GB.
Firstly I've created a backup:
dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 | gzip -c /media/ubuntu/local/backup1.img.gz
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Force NFS/CIFS retry when FQDN name resolution fails
I originally tried posting this in the Ubuntu forums, but am hoping I will have a wider audience here.
I have a setup in which I am mounting NFS/CIFS in my fstab which are then consumed by a service (...
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debian typo in /etc/fstab, cannot edit the file, mount -o remount,rw / doesn't work
When trying to do the command with / only, it says that it cannot do anything because of the error (i accidentally wrote ursquota instead of usrquota). If i try to replace the / with a different /dev/...
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No such file or directory. But it exists [closed]
I'm trying to access the etc/fstab by the following command and getting the error.
Bash command:
sudo echo "swapfile none swap sw 0 0" >> etc/fstab
Error:
-bash: etc/fstab: No such ...
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Home partition emergency mode
I recently mount my home partition(my home partition is separated from root) of the Endeavour-OS from my Garuda-OS, that cause me to boot into emergency mode in my Endeavour(that should have ...
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tmp on tmpfs: fstab vs tmp.mount with systemd
To have /tmp on tmpfs, I know I can use an entry in /etc/fstab, but I do not understand the role of /etc/default/tmpfs mentioned sometimes, and in what case I need to create or modify it.
Recently, I ...
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Dealing with a network share that is often unavailable?
Using /etc/fstab, I have mounted two network shares on my Raspbery Pi OS:
NAS - this is my Synology NAS,
PCH - this is a SSD inside my Popcorn Hour networked media player.
My intention is that the ...
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Why is my drive read-only?
I recently installed Manjaro on my computer. I use two drives, an nvme for the OS and a SATA SSD for everything else. I mounted my drive through FSTAB but it mounts itself as read only.
LSBLK output:
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fstab ipv6 mounting nfs share on more than one Interface
Can I use multiple interfaces in fstab i.e. %wlp2s0 and %eth0.
Is there any wildcards I can use with %.
I am currently running on a laptop and I am using:
[fe80::a:b:c:d%wlp2s0]:/mnt/usbDisk/nfs-share ...
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ExFat mount permission
I am trying to mount an exfat drive using fstab with read write permission for both user and group.
The line of etc/fstab for this drive is:
UUID=5E98-37EA /home/ftagliacarne/data/media exfat defaults,...
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How to make changes during boot on a read only rootfs
I have built a Yocto image (not based on sato) that is successfully booted, but because root is read only (in fstab), some services have failed. Mainly there is a run-postsinsts service that is ...
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Does Ubuntu installation keep multiple ESP synced? How to setup /etc/fstab to fallback mount /boot/efi?
Disclaimer: I have no experience installing Ubuntu Server in UEFI boot mode.
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I'm setting up this new servers with RAID 10 via mdadm. AFAIK, ESP can't be RAIDed, so during Ubuntu installation ...
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Recover Arch due to separate /usr
Right now I need chroot to reset mkinitcpio and grub, or I need to salvage the package list if that doesn't work.
I Installed StormOS with separate /boot/efi for grub, on an x86_64 system, UEFI boot. ...
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Why do swaps that aren't in fstab attempt to mount at boot
I'm using Pop!_OS (Based on Ubuntu/Elementary OS).
I've got swaps that are mounting at boot that aren't present in fstab. Because I've deleted those partitions, the entire boot process has to wait an ...
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fstab won't work
The fstab listed below gives a bad fs on boot. The two enteries above the swap file entry are new. The partitions are valid and worked with previous swap file by mounnting them after boot using the ...
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What are all these /etc/mtab filesystem types? How did they get mounted?
I'm learning about partitioning disks for different server applications, and was exploring mtab to see what sort of partitioning scheme is set up. I'm seeing filesystems that aren't described in /etc/...
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Can't mount network drive properly over Wi-Fi (cifs error -101)
NOTE: this is a repost from https://askubuntu.com/questions/1427248/cant-mount-network-drive-properly-over-wi-fi because it was off-topic there
I am trying to mount a network drive on Lubuntu 16.4 ...
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lsof: WARNING: can't stat() tmpfs file system
when I use lsof as regular user, I get following warnings:
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() tmpfs file system /home/testuser/.cache
testuser is another user on my systems, and my own user has no access to ...
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Mount cifs after NAS comes online
I have a NAS that is powered on via wakeonlan on startup by the desktop computers. I want to mount the NAS shares on the desktop computers via fstab, but of course the shares are not available. NFS ...
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copying file to mounted SMB share changes the file date
I'm using KDE 5.20.5 on MX-21.2. I have mounted SMB shares with fstab. If I copy files to the mounted share with Dolphin the file date is changed to the current date.
If I copy the file with Dolphin ...
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Nested BTRFS subvolume is not being mounted
I have a btrfs subvolume structure that allows me easy snapshotting of targetted folders, but it appears that one of my btrfs subvolumes is not getting mounted at all. This is weird, considering other ...
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How can I mount partitions based on IP?
I have set up a home server and I was wondering if it is possible to set up the fstab to automatically mount the network drive using the home network IP when I am at home and to mount it using my ...
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How to change Swap Drive in /etc/fstab on OpenSuse
I installed 4 linux distributions on my drive, 4 partitions one after the other. Part way through installation I deleted the swap partition because it was in the wrong place. I recreated the swap at ...
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USB drive error SCSI cache
just recognized an unknown error, as i checked my actual log with journalctl -f.
When i unmounted my Backup-USB-disk with unmount /path/to/disk and then pulled the cable out, a short noise occured ...
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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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bind mount in /etc/fstab, to add suid to subdirectory
I have succeeded in using mount to do it.
sudo mount -o bind dir dir &&
sudo mount -o remount,bind,suid dir
It takes two calls to mount. I could not get it to work in less. In any case the ...
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How to keep a network drive mounted in linux even when a user logs out
At work we have an ubuntu machine which is used by many users concurrently. We have mounted some network drives using fstab and this works fine. However when one of the users logs out, some of the ...
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How to configure fstab to mount a specific file only? [duplicate]
How should I configure fstab to mount a specific file only? The file is in a directory which contains other directories and files, besides the file I intend to mount.
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How to configure fstab to mount a remote directory without including its subdirectories?
How should I configure fstab to mount a remote directory but without including its subdirectories but only the directly (1th level) contained files?
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Difference between fstab commit and sysctl for writing back dirty data to disk
For reducing the number of disk writes, what is the difference between using fstab to change the disk commit frequency and using sysctl for controlling when dirty data is written back to disk?
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NFS is freezing up when saving a file from video stream
I'm very lost here, i'm not really too experienced with NFS. I have multiple servers and 1 file server, the file server has a share using nfs that the other servers mount.
One of the servers uses ...
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fstab mount ram drive so that all files created will be universally accessible
I mount a ram drive /mnt/ram that my scripts and services use for logging and notifications. This would be like /tmp but a directory that only my scripts use.
A problem arises when 'my' scripts are ...
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Mount entry in /etc/fstab with SSHFS and a proxy
I'm trying to mount a remote disk using SSHFS that is not directly accessible, i.e. I need to use a proxy, like local -> proxy -> remote. I'm using only key-based auth for both.
The following ...
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Fstab permissions
I created a partition called sdb1 in fat32 and created 3 folders within a main folder however I wanted the 3 folders to have different permissions.
I tried to make an ana folder with all permissions, ...
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systemd service to start after mount of ram drive
I have a inotify-based service that backs up my LAN's git directory to the Dropbox. I tried keeping the git directory in the Dropbox but I have multiple git clients so often get error files there.
In ...
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systemd remote-fs.target trying to mount remote filesystem that has been removed from fstab
This is a CentOS 7 system
This actually starts with the kafka service. Kafka is failing to start due to a dependency on remote-fs.target
When I try to manually run remote-fs.target:
sudo systemctl ...
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"Unable to retrieve fs info" when resizing btrfs partition
I have a partition formatted with btrfs and mounted in /home and in / (according to the fstab file and lsblk -f). I want to shrink the filesystem, but both of the following commands return ERROR: ...
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