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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What is /etc/mtab in Linux?
What is /etc/mtab in Linux?
Why is it needed and advantages of having it?
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mounting loop not working with UUID
I have created a loop device and added it to /etc/fstab
I got its UUID from the output of the blkid command (it does print a UUID for the particular device after running mkfs.ext4 /path/to/loop)
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Issue with correct syntax of /etc/fstab
The next command works:
sudo mount -t nfs4 10.10.1.10:/Data /mnt/data
How do I reformat this to /etc/fstab to add in? I can't get it mounting on boot.
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Bash - Remove line from /etc/fstab - advice [duplicate]
First post - go easy on me:)
Was rewriting bash script to delete lines in /etc/fstab.
I can get it to work with the "echo".
Question: Why cant it do with with awk?
echo "Code:"
if [ "$quit" ==...
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How to solve “timed out and dependency failure” while booting my Kali linux Rolling?
I have been using kali linux for 2 years .Today when I boot as usual Kali Linux shows "timed out and dependency failed" and stops booting
above pic shows fstab file
This above pic i analyze with ...
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What is the correct permission in /etc/fstab to mount NTFS?
I have Windows and Arch Linux in dual with UEFI. I want to mount my another NTFS partition in Arch. I mounted the partition with mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/Apps command. Then added the output of genfstab -...
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How to mount network with connected user, with credential file in connected user's home?
So right now, my /etc/fstab folder looks like that.
//192.168.x.y/Share_1 /media/shared/share_1 cifs _netdev,user,credentials=/home/pierre-antoine/.password_windows,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 ...
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Add (already created) partition for /home after OS installation
I made a separate partition for /home, but during installation process I forgot to mount it and hence no entry was made in fstab.
I had everything in partition under the root ( well not the swap and ...
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short way to perform efsck when we have huge number of disks
we need to do e2fsck on all our disks ( redhat linux - 7.2 ). Since on each machines we have 22 disks ( ext4 file-system ) it will take time to do it on each disk as all know when doing e2fsck need ...
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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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systemd - mount mount process exited, code=exited status=32
First Boot always fails. Is it possible to make it work ?
Working on modified OS image. Where it uses kernel of version 3.10 (Centos 7.6) but grub is still old version 0.97.
When deployment of OS ...
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Set hidepid=1 persistently at boot
I'd like my system's /proc directory to be mounted with the hidepid=1 option. I know that once the system is already up, I can do that with sudo mount /proc -o remount,hidepid=1. How can I make /proc ...
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Does the Modifications Made In GNU Parted Affect the File System Table File?
My Nexus 7 (2013 WiFi) tablet PC has a corrupted partition table. I would now like to troubleshoot into Linux.
After loading GNU Parted on the tablet and making a new GPT table with 30 partitions ...
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How can I get my drive mounting via fstab again?
I had a nice Ubuntu 18.04 system up and running with many different internal SATA drives and rock solid for several months, and all were happy in the land. Then one day, there was a simple power ...
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Why do we need both mkswap and /etc/fstab to set up swap?
Given
$ cat /etc/fstab
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/dev/mapper/lubuntu--vg-swap none swap sw 0 0
why do we still need:
$ sudo swapoff /dev/mapper/lubuntu--vg-swap
$ sudo mkswap /dev/...
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fstab bound folders show as disks in GUI
I'm trying to mount different folders on sda7 in the folders in the /home folder. like documents, pictures, and music.
I always did that like this:
/media/betty/Tuinhuisje/Betty/Documents /home/...
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Mounting using alternate fstab file
I need to use an alternative fstab file for mounting a folder in another folder, like the command
mount --bind /folder1 /folder2
I tried the command
mount --fstab /pathToFile.fstab
as stated in ...
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fstab keeps asking for password, while trying to mount shared cifs
I have the following entry in my fstab file:
//10.30.1.235/Restrito/BackupVms /backups/servidor01 cifs
vers=2.0,credentials=/spassword,iocharset=utf8,gid=0,uid=0,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=$ 0 0
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Systemd generated mount file is not deleted when the mount point entry in fstab is deleted or modified
I recently started using systemd in linux. On systemd mount, I have some observations:
mount unit file is generated with mount point name when there is an entry in /etc/fstab.
I also observed the ...
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Unmounting /usr from an external drive [closed]
I mounted /usr from the nvidia TX1 dev board to an external SSD connected to the board.
I am wondering how I can restore it original state without re-flashing? If I power down,and disconnect the SSD,...
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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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Boot in emergency mode, incomplete /etc/fstab
I am trying to set up a multi-boot on my machine with Ubuntu (my original OS, on /dev/sda2), Kali Linux and Debian. However, I got stuck halfway through my installation of Debian, and since Ubuntu ...
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Slow boot time after cloning disk and resizing partitions
I recently replaced an SSD with a larger SSD. I used Clonezilla to clone the old disk to the new one. After that I used GParted Live to resize the existing partition, pushing the swap partition to the ...
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cargo execution - permission denied [PREVIOUSLY]rust installation - permission denied
I have installed rust by curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh and followed instructions thereof. Installation was successful and the PATH was added to the .bash_profile as follows:
export PATH=$HOME/....
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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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FreeBSD can't mount home partition
I've been having an issue with my first installation of FreeBSD. As I always do in GNU/Linux I created separate home and root partitions. The issue I've been having is that my home partition doesn't ...
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Ext4 Error and disk remounted read-only
Sometimes I have an error ext4 and my disk becomes read-only.
I can fix it with a reboot and fcsk /dev/sda2 but it keeps coming back...
Here are some dmesg :
[ 3160.692730] perf: interrupt took too ...
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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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Reboot with faulty drive, devices names change, server does not boot
I have had this problem on 2 servers and I want to know how should I handle the problem. My server has an SSD (/dev/sda) and two SATA drives (/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc).
The second drive (/dev/sdb) has ...
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Why does a copy operation to a directory that serves as a mountpoint not copy the data to the mounted drive?
Why does a copy operation to a directory that serves as a mountpoint not copy the data to the mounted drive?
I bought a 2 terabyte drive and mounted it in a subdirectory within my home directory.
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Idle timeout for NFS share mounted with systemd automount
What I want to do?
I want to configure my /etc/fstab so that my NFS share was:
mounted automatically when accessed (auto-mount on-demand),
unmounted automatically after specified idle timeout (x-...
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Cannot chown, chmod on mounted ntfs partition
I need to mount a ntfs partition and be able to use it with unix file system permissions. The problem is that, when I mount the partition using the following fstab entry, I cannot run chown and chmod ...
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Why is /tmp mounted with permissions 0755 when fstab has 1777?
For /tmp in /etc/fstab, I have mode=1777, but after a reboot, the permissions on /tmp are 0755. Another directory /var/tmp is configured in exactly the same way but does not have this problem (see ...
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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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How to make exfat appear as a disk on Computer (RedHat 6)
I have a redhat 6 on 1TB HDD and another 1TB HDD with exfat format, anyway on Computer I can find the drive where redhat installed but not the exfat drive.
I do add a line to /etc/fstab for auto ...
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Mounting fstab using mount -a not working like regular mount
So I'm writing an custom init script and I want to mount / as rw. In /etc/init.d/rcS when I use mount -t ext4 -o remount /dev/sda / it does remount as rw but when I do mount -a (or I even tried mount -...
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Can you manage the entire fstab file with a GUI?
I hate constantly having to wrestle with a command line editor and looking things up when managing my fstab file. Is there a GUI that will let me do it by clicking on things?
Why gnome-disk-utility ...
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/etc/fstab fails to bind mount on boot, but running mount -a works correctly
I'm running a modified WD MyCloud (Gen 1) NAS with Debian 8 (Jessie) installed on it.
Due to the nuances of the device, I can't resize the root partition, and am struggling with space on it.
To ...
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Using grub to properly boot from an external backup drive
edit: I think I solved my own problem -- see bottom of question for details
I have a copy of all the files under / on an external usb-connected harddrive. To test whether this backup works, i'm ...
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Can't enter in Ubuntu because fstab error
When I shut-down or restart the machine (VM) it won't log in to the system. I get the following error and then, continuous black-screen.
This is my fstab, I don't know why uid=1000 is wrong.
User ...
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sed: replacing entries in the /etc/fstab
I'm in the process of hardening some of our systems. As part of that hardening process, I need to update a few entries in the /etc/fstab to limit the capabilities of some of the various partitions.
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Inspect a Ramdrive?
I have mounted a ramdrive via /etc/fstab.
And I would like to inspect the properties of the drive such as the memory policy (e.g. bind, prefer, or?) to make sure all properties are expected.
How can ...
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Set SMB2 protocol in Samba 3.6.6
I've decided to switch to the higher version of SMB in Samba (at least 2) - mostly because of the security reasons.
I've tried to add to the smb.conf in the [global] section:
client min protocol = ...
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No permission to chown /mnt/hdd
I don't have permission to chown the mounted directory /mnt/hdd. I am currently logged in as root. The ls -l output is:
rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 131072 Jan 1 1970 hdd
I am mounting it via fstab ...
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Can one combine logical volumes from different groups without copying the contents over?
I use Arch Linux kernel 4.18.12-arch1-1-ARCH (november 2018).
I use a SATA caddy (for a Thinkpad T400) which holds a hard drive from an old laptop. I'd like to decide on combining the contents and ...
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How to force OS reload of fstab?
'mount -a' works fine as a one-time action. But auto-mount of removable media reverts to settings that were in fstab at the last reboot.
How to make the OS actually reload fstab so auto-mounts use ...
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Does a filesystem check initiated from /etc/fstab auto-repair?
We have a Raspberry Pi located at a location where it may experience frequent power loss. I'm trying to make it scan, and repair (if necessary) a filesystem every time it boots up, in case the power ...
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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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inotify_add_watch(/etc/fstab) failed: (Permission denied)
With the latest update of KDE, I am seeing these errors:
Sep 26 23:07:30 desktop sddm-greeter[709]: inotify_add_watch(/etc/fstab) failed: (Permission denied)
Sep 26 23:08:18 desktop kdeinit5[819]: ...
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Mounting unix to synology nas and special characters
I'm trying to mount my Synology NAS to Ubuntu with fstab, and I have some folders on the NAS containing '!' in the folder name, as well as spaces.
The spaces I found out that I can escape with \040, ...
