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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commit argument in ext4 fs vs commit mount option in fstab
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Improve the I/O performance of ext4 file system, specifically.
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I got to know about noatime and commit mount options for fstab, and also a warning that the former can be a breaking ...
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Find all “real” filesystems mounted in a directory tree
How do I discover, for a given top-level directory, which “real” filesystems are mounted there, and from which devices (may include UUID or LABEL, but must use /dev/something for LVM)?
Background is ...
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How to Activate a Mount of a Remote Share When Its Machine Connects?
How can one activate a mount of a remote SMB share when the remote machine connects?
This is more about discerning a local event triggered by the connection of a particular remote machine, than it is ...
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unable to mount network share from fstab or in terminal
My laptop boots normally. But earlier this week, after some updates, it is unable to mount (fstab) network shares from my QNAP.
Other computers with the same fstab connect successfully. I checked the ...
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I can't boot into my UBUNTU 20.04 LTS
some problem in partition /dev/sda8 and it has logged me into emergency Mode. I tried running fsck command but to any use and also commented the fstab file but none worked. Please help me !
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Disks no longer mount when starting Ubuntu after installing Blender compilation dependencies
I'm trying to compile Blender on Ubuntu 22.04 and I ran into some problems while installing some dependencies and now Ubuntu wont boot. I was running an automatic dependency installation script for ...
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USB Drive sometimes changes the Drive name
I have two USB Drives, I created partitions, and formatted it to ext4.
Running fdisk -l shows that I have /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1
/dev/...
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FSTAB on Debian 11 Mounts Drives in Read-Only Mode
I installed MergerFS on a debian machine, and things seem to work. However, the drives end-up in read-only mode. How can I fix this?
/etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST1000LM014-1EJ164_W770QH4A-part1 /...
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What should be in my /etc/fstab if I have two discs?
I have a laptop. It has two hard drives. One is an SSD with a normal Windows 10 install on it. The other is an mSata with a normal install of FreeBSD13 on it.
To install FreeBSD I removed the SSD, ...
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Where is the official documentation for /etc/fstab?
I want to start editing my /etc/fstab file more comfortably and not rely on random forums anymore. But wherever I go, I see very scarce info about it. I can nowhere find a webpage that, for example, ...
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Kubuntu 20.04.4 LTS cannot mount domain samba shares (either from terminal or fstab)
I have been trying to mount a simple share. All domain users should have read permissions. Kubuntu was configured for domain, I can see domain and log in with domain user. When I access shares with ...
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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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Mounting a share in fstab (Debian 11) fails with BAD_NETWORK_NAME
I can run sudo mount -t cifs -o guest,user=root //SERVER_NAME/SHARE /mnt/FOLDER without issue. However, I cannot run mount -a or mount /mnt/folder when I have this line in fstab:
//SERVER_NAME/SHARE /...
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How to share an fstab'd external HDD between users "www-data" and "pi"?
I've been working through these two tutorials, in the hopes of setting up a Raspberry Pi to run Owncloud and Resilio Sync in tandem. First, I installed Owncloud and gave it access to a mounted ...
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SSHFS automount fstab with RSA Keypair asking for password
I have a problem. I added a SSH Server to mount to my server.
I added the following line to /etc/fstab.
sshfs#user@server.com:/home/hd03_00_backup_server/ /mnt/server_backup fuse.sshfs IdentityFile=/...
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How to make a "dynamic" etc/fstab
I have manually installed linux on a USB drive.
It works and boots up when I plug the drive into the original computer.
The problem comes when the drive is on a different computer or there are other ...
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failed to add quota to fstab something while installing ISPconfig on ubuntu 20.04
[INFO] Adding quota to fstab.
[ERROR] Exception occured: ISPConfigOSException -> Command mount -o remount / 2>&1 && quotaoff -avug 2>&1 && quotacheck -avugm 2>&...
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I can't mount partitions via /etc/fstab, the error appears
I've tried to mount my new partitions by editing /etc/fstab, but error appears.
When I try to do it by mount command, all works fine and I can mount them.
What's wrong?
# /etc/fstab: static file ...
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Can exFAT-formatted disks on Linux be diskwise access-controlled by fstab, UDEV, udisks2 or anything else?
The exFAT filesystem developed by Microsoft supports only Windows ACL but neither Linux ACL, macOS ACL nor POSIX permission (Unix permission). I am especially disappointed that exFAT does not support ...
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mount smb share after wireguard with fstab or systemd
I'm trying to mount an SMB-share after a wireguard connection has been established. Therefore I did the following things:
created a wireguard config
made systemd start the connection on startup
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Linux: How to preserve read-only mode for layered bind mounts
Let’s give some context to the issue:
There is /foo/bar directory in read-write mode
There is /bar bind mount that points to /foo/bar
In /foo/bar there is bar directory that has to be in read-only ...
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How to verify fstab concisely?
I have been using the following command so far to verify my /etc/fstab:
sudo findmnt --verify
Unfortunately, it spills out warnings for each unreachable disk (which I don't care about) and I have not ...
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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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linux fstabs messed up not starting up
I have modified /etc/fstab and then reboot the Ubuntu machine. I was connecting to this machine via ssh.
it's not promting anymore via ssh for username and password.
how can I via ssh fix this issue?
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Trying to move Linux installed on LVM over to new disk
I have Linux Mint installed on and booting from an LVM drive with two physical disks in the volume group (1TB each). I have purchased a new hard drive (4TB) and I would like to clone the whole thing ...
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Blocking mounted devices from showing on Cinnamon desktop
On Cinnamon 5.0.7 (Linux Mint 20.2), how do I prevent mounted devices, specifically device created in fstab, from showing up on the desktop and Nemo sidebar.
Until recently, this was the default ...
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comment the specific line in fstab file that contained the relevant UUID number
We want to comment the specific line in fstab file that contained the relevant UUID number
Example:
Disk=sde
UUID_STRING=` blkid | grep $Disk | awk '{print $2}' `
echo $UUID_STRING
UUID="...
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How to enable journaled quota on Debian 11
I'm trying to enable journaled usrquota on Debian 11 Kernel 5.10. All information I find uses external files which leads to the following deprecation warning:
quotaon: Your kernel probably supports ...
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Adding bcache partition to fstab
I successfully setup bcache and added a HDD as a backing partition. I am able to mount that partition by sudo mount /dev/bcache0 /data
I would like to add this to fstab. I edited it to the following:
/...
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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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How to edit fstab to mount bind a directory that have spaces in the PATH at start in wsl2
I am currently using wsl2 on windows and I use MS OneDrive locally in parallel for my studies.
Actually I sync each file with my OneDrive account.
AS my Onedrive folder's name is like :
Onedrive - ...
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a disk moved from an old computer requires a root user to be mounted, why?
I had a data disk on my previous computer (Debian 9) accessible to me, the user marc.
Then I bought a new computer (Debian 10), and the reseller put that disk among others, that was immediately ...
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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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`fstab` entry for bootable system on SSD moving between machines
I have a (perhaps) unusual setup: a bootable system on a SSD which I carry between two essentially identical (AMD) machines. This gives me at each site EXACTLY the same Debian environment (for all ...
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How do I wait for the physical network interface and network protocol stacks to be up before trying to mount a remote CIFS share?
I'm having a problem getting a remote share to mount on boot.
The mount is attempted before the network interface is ready –
and I've got _netdev on the required line in /etc/fstab:
//192.168.0.160/...
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Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked
I have a Debian 11 that i was using LVM for data only, i did the following commands:
mount /dev/srv-vg/lv-data /mnt/data
vi /etc/fstab
/dev/srv-vg/lv-data /mnt/data ext4 defaults 0 0
The mount ...
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mount(2) system call failed: No such file or directory
I cannot mount the swap subvolue.
-> sudo mount -av
/ : ignored
/home : already mounted
mount: /swap: mount(2) system call failed: No such file or ...
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mount options ignored - debian 11 bullseye on raspberry with ext. usb drive
I'm trying to mount an external usb drive to raspberry pi 4b with debian 11 bullseye.
Whatever I've tried so far to set mount options gets ignored.
/etc/fstab
UUID="9f32de87-6800-4585-a5c5-...
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How do I use file_mode and dir_mode with an exfat drive in /etc/fstab?
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 Server with Kernel 5.11 including built in exfat support - I don't have exfat-fuse or exfat-utilities and would prefer to just use the new native kernel support.
I'm able to ...
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media.mount: Job media.mount/start failed with result 'dependency'
Note: the root problem is now solved, see USB flash drives automatically mounted (headless computer). Still the question how 'to debug this problem' below is still interesting on its own.
I'm using ...
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USB flash drives automatically mounted (headless computer)
For the project SamplerBox, up to now I was using /dev/sda1 /media auto nofail 0 0 to have USB flash drives automatically mounted when inserted on the headless computer, see also Auto-mount and auto-...
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Moving Pop OS installation between ssds
I wanted to trash windows for good and searching I decided for pop os (an ubuntu like as far as I know) and I tried with an ssd on the laptop to check compatibility and gaming.
Perfect! I want it. ...
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Mount with sshfs in /etc/fstab file
I am trying to connect to sshfs with fstab on Ubuntu, but the files are not loading.
In the fstab I put the following :
ssh2@192.1.1.1:/home/ssh2/SSHserver /home/asir3/Escritorio/SSHclient fuse....
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Unable to run fsck on boot Archlinux
I'm running Archlinux on ODROID-N2+ with Petitboot (based on Uboot) bootloader. I followed the archlinux wiki to enable fsck on boot, but it still never runs.
I have fsck set as the last hook in ...
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LVM entry for logical volume in /etc/fstab - /dev/mapper/group-volume or /dev/group/volume?
I created a logical volume like the following.
lvcreate -L 300G MyVolGroup -n homevol
As for mounting this volume after initializing a filesystem on it, a few guides I read used /dev/MyVolGroup/...
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Mounting NTFS hard drive on boot
I am trying to mount a hard drive with an NTFS filesystem on it on boot.
It doesn't need a special location. /mnt/ or something similar should be enough.
I had already done that with a drive but it is ...
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Unmount without sudo
I know that I can declare in /etc/fstab that a user can mount and unmount a partition without root permission using user(s). But I seem to be unable to achieve the same in a mount command without ...
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How to tell systemctl to automatically unmount a drive if it's idle and remove directory after unmounting?
I have this entry in fstab:
LABEL=cache /disks/cache ext4 rw,user,x-mount.mkdir,relatime,noauto,errors=remount-ro,x-systemd.idle-timeout=120min 0 0
What I expoect to do is:
to mount the disk with ...
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Mounting NTFS partition by fstab at boot still works correctly, but process never dies
Why would a mount.ntfs operation never finish (continue to burn CPU) if the partition seems to be correctly mounted? How could this be debugged?
On Linux Mint 19.3, I've had an fstab (below) operating ...
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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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