Questions tagged [mount]
Attaches a file system to a specified point in an existing filesystem hierarchy
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Cannot create directories in mounted external drive although in the mountpoint
I don't know what happened, but I all of a sudden cannot write to my external drive anymore. It first said that
$sudo touch Data_Files
touch: cannot touch 'Data_Files': Read-only file system
When I ...
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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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Is passwd file always in /etc/passwd?
So, I'm writing a script that needs to modify the such a file but from the partition of a non booted OS (for example from a livCD to a OS installed on another drive) and I was wondering if, given I ...
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How to remount special device proc which does not exist?
I did this:
root# mkdir /tmp/test && mount --bind /tmp/test/ /proc/
root# rm -rf /tmp/test
root# mount -t proc proc /proc
But then I ran into this:
mount: special device proc does not ...
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Is it possible for mount(8) to override systemd MountFlags?
I am working on Debian stretch/4.14.75 and have been
using my own automounter (udev-hook + shell-script)
for years.
Since it breaks recently due to the namespace problem
that the mounted directory is ...
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How to Mount Linux(RHEL 7.5) Drive in Windows OS
I have faced a problem of server migration from RHEL 6.x to 7.5. One of the important function is I have to mount an RHEL file (eg./opt/MyFile) in my PC.(windows 10) The problem is...
In RHEL 6.x, I ...
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Why does one need a loop device at all?
I previously used to create image files using dd, set up a filesystem on them using mkfsand mount them to access them as mounted partitions. Later on, I have seen on the internet that many examples ...
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Swapping a mounted drive between machines - is it possible?
Let's say I have a storage device called A.
I install A into my machine M1 (which contains a drive called B which is
a unix boot drive containing the operating system).
I then boot up M1 and mount ...
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Error during mounting an nfs directory [on hold]
every time I try to mount a directory, on one of my linux boxes I get the below error, and it will never mount anything.
can anyone let me know how I can fix this error?
# mount -o nolock 192.168....
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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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Suspending (to disk or ram) changes USB drive device file
When the system is suspended (to ram or disk), the USB drive (/dev/sdb) is "moved" to /dev/sdc. When it is mounted, it stops working.
I have root on this device so I can't work with system. (I only ...
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Undo Magic SysRq “remount-ro”
Is there a way to undo an accidental Magic SysRq "remount-ro"? On my notebook keyboard, this combination happens all too often...
I tried to remount the roor partition with mount -o remount,rw /dev/...
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What's the difference between direct-IO (“losetup --direct-io”) and “mount -o sync” for loop-devices?
I understand that without use of any flags, there are two caches involved with loop-devices. Once a page cache when writing to the file-system within the loop-device, and then again to the page cache ...
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Mounted CIFS directory by web shell not visible in the system shell
I use PHP shell_exec to run the command
echo password | sudo -S mount.cifs //192.168.1.15/Share /share -o username=root,password=password
HTTPD user is granted sudo-pivilege, the command ran ...
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Trouble with executing a bash with sudo privileges
I wrote a script that prompts me in dmenu the availible drives to mount or unmount and I added to the with visudo the following line
ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /path/to/usb-mount
and the script basically ...
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zerofree won't open filesystem [closed]
I am trying to run zerofree on virtualbox .vdi disk. I attached the vdi disk to the storage to another virtual machine - debian desktop. I started the machine and mounted the hard disk with this ...
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Mount command finishes successully, but disk is not mounted
We're trying to mount a disk, but even though the mount command finishes successfully, the disk isn't mounted
bart@test:/$ sudo mount -v /data
mount: /dev/sdc1 mounted on /data.
bart@test:/$ df -h
...
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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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Cannot touch “/static/a”: Read-only file system
I want to edit /static/volumio/app/plugins/music_service/mpd/mpd.config.tmpl file but when I try, It says read-only file system.
On mount command:
/dev/loop0 on /static type squashfs (ro,relatime)
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What code prevents mount namespace loops? In a more complex case involving mount propagation
Background information
The following commands return an error:
# touch /tmp/a
# mount --bind /proc/self/ns/mnt /tmp/a
mount: /tmp/a: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /proc/self/ns/mnt, ...
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Prevent Mount under Destination
I want to prevent all users (including root) from mounting anything under a specific destination (e.g. /tmp) by SELinux or any other Linux tool, is this possible? And how would it be done?
Regarding ...
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Mount “Visible” to PHP but not to “System”
I have a mount bash script. I can run the script from CL fine. It mounts as expected.
I call this same script from PHP using exec() and get no errors. www-data has sudo rights listed for this ...
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Running Commandline Scripts Through PHP
I am having difficulties running bash scripts with
php's exec() and wanted to get some suggestions.
I would love to be more flexible in this area because I can
see a lot of potential for my small ...
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autofs indirect mount in CentOS 7
I am using CentOS7. I have tried to test "autofs". I have created 2 centos servers as cent_ldap and cent_client. I have configured cent_client to use ldap authentication successfully.
In cent_ldap I ...
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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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can changing permissions cause input/output errors
Best of knowledge can screwing with permissions cause input/ output errors?
permissions for users home directory were changed to ftpdsamba:root (root is the group owner of home directory /home/...
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mount.cifs error(-13) - permissons denied
I am trying to learn more about Samba shares with CentOS 7, and while I can get smbclient connections to work with my server and client, I'm having trouble with mounting the SMB share on the client ...
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SAMBA share not mounting via nautilus (Centos 7)
I'm not sure if this is a great place to ask, but:
I am able to mount a SAMBA share manually via commandline using mount.cifs, but when I try to mount via nautilus, I get a very quick "connection ...
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What happens to the mount namespace of an interrupted process
I am experimenting with mount namespaces. I have a python script, which creates a bind mount, after that a mount namespace with the unshare system call. I print the PID, and pause the script. I can ...
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Fedora: cp: Invalid argument while coping a file named with Chinese characters to a vfat filesystem
I want to use cp to copy a file named with Chinese characters to my fat32 usb stick. This is done using a script, so using nautilus is not a solution for me. I do not want to rename the files, too. I ...
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mount error(2): No such file or directory - CIFS - Rasperry Pi
I am playing around with a share on my NAS being unable to mount a SMB share.
Based on the ubuntu smb documentation the command for mounting a SMB / CIFS should be as following:
sudo mount -t cifs -o ...
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How can I pin a mount folder to a specific serial number, so that the same disk gets mounted in the same place every-time?
I have many hard-disks that need to be mounted on restarts some have have NTFS file-systems other have EXT4, some are USB and some are SATA, some have the same label names, and they don't get mounted ...
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can not set user write permissions to file in SMB mounted directory [duplicate]
I have mounted a Windows 10 directory so I can edit some files on my Windownz machine.
sudo mount -t cifds //W10/Users ~/public/ -o username=bobby
When checking the directories they all have the ...
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Why do I have mounted partitions that do not appear in /etc/fstab?
My /etc/fstab has only two lines: root partition and debugfs, while /etc/mtab has much more, in addition to these two, like (sysfs, proc, udev, devpts, tmpfs, cgroup, ...).
Where do the additional ...
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Mount directories after taking input from 2 files
I would like to run a script which will take input from two files in order to mount multiple directories.
Goal is:
#mount 'line 1 from file 1' 'line 1 from file 2'
#mount 'line 2 from file 1' 'line ...
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NFS mount a directory from server node to client node
In one of my assignments on CentOS 7, I am trying to NFS mount /home directory from management node to client node.
I have given the commands I have tried below.
I tried to disable firewall, but it'...
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Cryptmount-setup is not working
When I tried to set up encryption using cryptmount-setup, it just returns without any feedback. It did not even created the crypto.fs file. I ran the commands: cryptmount nextcloud_data and cryptmount ...
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ext4-fs: bad geometry: block count exceeds size of device
I have 2TB disk that I use in notebook. This disk was formatted as ext4 and It works fine in notebook, but when I attach it to desktop (via sata-usb adapter), I am unable to mount it due to following ...
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Is devtmpfs special with respect to namespaces? a permissions problem
I'm wondering if devtmpfs is special with respect to namespaces.
Here's my system info (using Vagrant for testing)
vagrant@ubuntu-xenial:~/test$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu-xenial 4.4.0-135-generic #161-...
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Mounting USB subdirectory for NFS export
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
I am having trouble exporting a directory from a USB drive. I have a number of exports similarly configured as to permissions and they are just fine.
Here is the error:
mount --...
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How to detect RO FS when Linux can't [closed]
So I've got several disks on several servers who lost their disks due to a brief network delay. according to mount and /proc/mounts, the disks are rw. When I sudo or try to access a faulty mount, I ...
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With the command pv it is possible to clone a drive, how do I mount it? [duplicate]
I was able to backup a drive using the following command.
pv -EE /dev/sda > disk-image.img
This is all well and good, but now I have no way of seeing the files unless I use this command
pv disk-...
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Comparing mounted-mount points with fstab
I took the sample script, below, off the net to check and validate mount points of system that is already up and running.
The problem:
I want to compare existing mounted-mount points which are not ...
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“cp: cannot create regular file” on a VFAT formatted external USB flash drive
I have an external USB drive which is formatted in FAT32. That's the output of the fdisk -l command:
/dev/sdb1 * 56 15728639 15728584 7.5G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
I have the following entry in ...
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Mounting exfat SD card on Linux
I tried to mout an exfat formatted SD card following this https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-mount-an-sd-card-in-linux manual. sudo fdisk -l gives me for the SD card:
The backup GPT table is ...
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Why can't you rename (or move) a mount point?
I can move the parent directory of a mount point as follows:
$ mkdir -p f/mnt
$ bindfs --no-allow-other f/mnt f/mnt
$ mv f g
$
But I cannot rename the mount point itself:
$ mv g/mnt g/m
mv: cannot ...
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Unable to mount read an write partitions
I use for a half and a year Linux with 6 HDD with NTFS format and modify my fstab to can read and write, also I have ntfs-3g installed.
UUID=480a3f32-e304-49b0-b322-4964349fd941 / ...
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using VFS to do dynamic mounting
I have what may sound like a strange situation. I have a mount point for a directory containing a variety of log files. From time to time it is necessary to unmount this directory and remount it in ...
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What is the difference between mount and mount -o loop
I have a iso file named ubuntu.iso.
I can mount it with the command: mount ubuntu.iso /mnt. After mounting it, I can see it from the outout of the command df -h: /dev/loop0 825M 825M 0 100% ...
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File on SD card does not exists after reboot
I have a weired scenario on a Production unit. There is a SD card on the unit. I can create a file in the SD card and it shows that the newly created file exists there. I can do read/write operation ...
