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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How to securely store password for use by mount
I would like non-root users to be able to mount certain drives on the local network (or have them be mounted automatically on log-in). To mount network drives (via cifs) a password is passed on over ...
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Shutting off power with a non-system r/w ext4 volume mounted
I'm running Raspbian off a read-only ext4 volume. I also have a read/write usb flash volume (ext4, sync) mounted via fstab that runs a simple application that is expected to write occasionally. While ...
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Fstab Configuration Help
Okay so I was messing around in the fstab file under /etc/ and I made a new partition which I could play around with, this partitions name is /dev/sda2.
So when I was messing around I did this ...
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mount -a works, but fails at boot with “can't find UUID”
I just upgraded my server to Debian Buster (Raspbian). However, when I now boot, my USB hard drives aren't mounting. I see something like the following on my splash screen:
mount: /media/PiHDD: can't ...
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Linux permission denied
Every single command I run gives me permission denied as root, this happened shortly after I changed /etc/fstab and remounted ext4.
The only commands I appear to be able to run is echo and cd, not ...
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Set group as owner of cifs mount in fstab
Is it possible to mount a cifs share in fstab with setting the group as owner? So anyone in the group can chmod without sudo?
These are the options I've tried:
rw,mand,vers=3.0,gid=,file_mode=0664,...
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/dev/disk/cloud/azure_resource-part1 in /etc/fstab override after stop and start vm in azure portal
i want to make /mnt as my extrnal disk directory , i folwed this tutorial : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/attach-disk-portal and my data disk was /mnt , after some ...
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Enabling tmpfs on an already installed system
Right now a system uses LVM on LUKS, with only 2 lvm partitions / and /home.
If I now want to make use of tmpfs for /tmp and /var/tmp, can I just
add the necessary changes to /etc/fstab and it will ...
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/etc/fstab - using bash command output to get UUID?
I placed an entry in my fstab file to add a swap partition.
I used output of a bash command to get the UUID of vdb1 partition(I can't copy paste).
Like this:
UUID=$(blkid -o value -s UUID /dev/vdb1)...
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sshfs in fstab: addressing same server through different networks
Host and Client Ubuntu 19.04. OpenSSH
I have a SSH server in my home LAN that I mount to my laptop using the LAN network address. When I'm at my weekend hideaway, I have to change my fstab to mount ...
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Edit /etc/fstab in boot mode [duplicate]
I have added the last line of /etc/fstab/ file for automounting my drive E like this:
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=0fc4d3c1-...
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Auto mount partition at startup (Linux)
I'm new to Linux, so bear with me.
I'm running Kali on a raspberry pi and I can't seem to get the second partition on my SD card to auto mount at startup. The first partition mounts just fine. I can ...
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Fuse filesystem hangs
I have CentOS 6.10. My fstab file contains this mount point:
curlftpfs#ftp://free:free@ftp.zakupki.gov.ru/ /mnt/eis_ftp_44fz fuse ro,noauto,intr,nosuid,nodev,direct_io,no_remote_lock,connect_timeout=...
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Why swap space doesn't get filesystem check at boot time?
As I was checking the /etc/fstab I noticed that the swap space has attr pass=0, which means its filesystem is not checked at boot time.
Can anyone please tell me why is this behavior for?
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How does the Linux command “mount -a” work?
After adding a new mount point in /etc/fstab, we usually execute mount -a to reflect the change (if we want to bypass reboot), and df -kh output shows the new mount point.
How does mount -a work/...
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Removing mount default execute permission of text files
I want to mount all text files without execute permission to eliminate the (Run in Terminal - Display - Run) message, which appears every time I open a text file in Linux Mint.
I have the following ...
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/etc/fstab is mounted too late, causing some daemon fail
I wrote some entries in /etc/fstab, for example mounting on /tmp.
It seems systemd mounts /etc/fstab entries too late, after some daemon already started, for example Xorg.
Xorg creates .X11-unix in ...
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Creating bind mounts at Linux installation time
Generally, when we install a Linux distro (I'll use Ubuntu-like distro as an example, but can be any distro), we define partitions and mount points that will be applied to a disk, after we click on "...
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how do I mount the hard disk with Windows on it? [duplicate]
I am a user of Fedora 30. I installed Fedora on a USB memory stick and use it with Windows 10 on the same computer. How do I set the options in fstab to make it read-write to an NTFS-formatted Windows ...
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Fstab intermittently mounting drives while using nofail
We have 4 backup disks that we rotate in one removable caddy slot.
The fstab script intermittently works....it appears the fstab script is not getting to later lines.
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS (GNU/Linux 4....
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input/output error when copy or link a file containing escape characters from home directory to a nfs system
Suppose that I have a home directory /home/mydir,which has a file containing time format (YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MM:SS) in its filename. When I try to copy or link these files to a nfs directory, it will ...
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Adding entries to fstab results in emergency mode
This is my local system configuration.
NAME="elementary OS"
VERSION="5.0 Juno"
I am mounting my remote server's file system on a subdirectory by this command, which is working fine.
sudo sshfs -o ...
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Filesystem show up in `/etc/fstab`, but not using `df -a`?
I don't understand why the following filesystem shows up in /etc/fstab, but not using df -a:
/dev/sdb1 /var/log/apache_logs reiserfs user,noauto,rw,exec,suid,user_xattr 0 2
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Is this the proper way to use _netdev in FSTAB?
OS is Kubuntu 18.04
from fstab
192.168.88.101:/export/storage /mnt/omv nfs _netdev
that nfs share is not mounted on boot but will mount if I run mount -a
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I would like to resize my /tmp partition but gparted doesn't want to change anything, nowhere
I use my computer with Debian 9 for Java Spark development.
Spark is a Big Data API and these kind of works use more temporary space than the 2G that by default the Debian installation sat.
marc@...
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How to make an fstab entry for sshfs on non-standard SSH port and using ssh key
The server is listening on port '8765' and requires a SSH key for authentication.
I can mount the remote directory using this command:
sshfs -o idmap=user,port=8765 stephen@server:/export/usb2T /mnt/...
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Mounting Windows shared folder with fstab
I am trying to convert this command line:
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.20.202/torrents /media/NAS -o username=x,password=y,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777
Into /etc/fstab entry, but it keeps mounting ...
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Prevent post-install scripts from modifying /etc/fstab
OS: Ubuntu 18.04
Today I noticed that some script has modified my /etc/fstab and commented out the efivars partition:
# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation
# UUID=1562-9EFD /boot/...
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Can fstab dynamically mount a partition by reading from a file or filename?
I have a partition structure as follows:
/dev/sdc1 => Partition 1 ( My OS. [ Linux flavour ] )
/dev/sdc2 => Partition 2 ( This contents some data. )
/dev/sdc3 => Partition 3 ( This also ...
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is it possible mount automatically if from some reason mount folder isn't mounted
we create the following mount point and nfsshare folder as share folder on all our linux client machines ( total 1872 machines - redhat 7.2 )
master1:/nfs 41932800 6563840 35368960 16% /...
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Samba credentials changing when attempting to mount
I'm trying to mount Samba shares automatically using fstab.
Right now my fstab entry for the network share is
//bistack/matt /mnt/Network_Shares/Matt cifs user=matt,pass=*****,auto,nouser,exec,...
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Mount internal drive to all users
I have an internal 8tb harddrive which I want it to be mounted to all users on my machine some of the users are local and some are ldap users.
I've created a folder called 8tb in /media/8tb
Then I ...
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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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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
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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 ...
