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How to run a command when ext4 errors are detected?
I've experienced some problems in the past days. My root partition was randomly remounting ro (read-only) when some ext4 errors were detected.
I've got another HDD mounted at /mnt/files and everything ...
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'.lnk' shown in a mounted folder
I'm trying to mount a Windows partition in my Ubuntu system so I edited fstab with this:
/dev/sda4 /mnt/windows ntfs rw,auto 0 0
This mounts without any problem my Windows partition ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 - Can't Mount Devices by Double Click on File Manager If They Are Defined in `fstab`
I have few HD with NTFS on my computer.
Usually I can see those Hard Drives as devices in the File Manager home (computer:///).
By double clicking them they are mounted.
I wanted to make sure when ...
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Moving root partition: fstab mounting old partition
What I am Trying To Do: I am trying to move my root file system from its small partition on /dev/sda6 to a new larger partition on /dev/sda8.
My Problem: The small partition sda6 is still being ...
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mount samba share gives 'can't find [mount path] in /etc/fstab'
sudo mount -t cifs -o //192.168.0.3/Public /media/external
mount: /media/external: can't find in /etc/fstab.
The path /media/external exists and is empty. If I do smbclient //192.168.0.3/Public I ...
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bind folders in fstab messing up permissions
I'm configuring my system. I have an Ubuntu partition with the /home inside it (not extra partition for /home). I thought I could bind some folders from another partition on the same drive to my /home....
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Cannot delete from UDF partition (SSD)
I have Xubuntu 16.10 and I dual boot with Windows 10. I have a secondary SSD drive and wanted to choose a somewhat OS-agnostic filesystem for it so I can use it both Windows and Linux, and after ...
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How to prevent Ubuntu from mounting a partition it finds?
Adding a static fstab record for a particular partition effectively prevents automatic mounting logic from handling it and this works great when I want the partition to actually be mounted (in a place ...
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Root filesystem check failed
While updating ubuntu my system crashed and after restarting and entering to ubuntu I get the message Root filesystem check failed.Very much similar to the post Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10: Filesystem check ...
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How do I fix a bad /etc/fstab if the hard disk read-only?
I had created a bootable hackintosh usb stick but I found that I had a problem that could be solved by renaming a file or editing another. But the usb stick was read only and, in a moment of stupidity,...
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ecryptfs mounts as read only
I did the following (http://haridas.in/how-to-put-encrypted-contents-on-cloud-storages.html), and after mounting, the mounted dir is read-only filesystem:
I created two dirs: one to /home/user/dir1 ...
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Will Ubuntu 13.10 boot if I enable compression on / which is a btrfs volume
I installed Ubuntu 13.10 on btrfs and the installer created the following fstab:
UUID=0eff8daf-5924-4a1f-922c-ec82ec594dc0 / btrfs defaults,subvol=@ 0 0
UUID=0eff8daf-5924-4a1f-922c-...
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How to set password for hdd partition mounting
I am using Ubuntu 13.04 x86_64.
I have one extra ext4 partition of 90 GB beside my / partition.
I want to ask the user to enter a password whenever he/she tries to mount that extra partition by say
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Mount USB drive with write permissions for everyone or specific user
I know there are similar questions but I get some specific problem I can't overcome.
I have:
HDD split into two partitions. /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2. sdb1 is NTFS and I don't need it. I need sdb2 ...
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What happens to remounted data/directories
According to suggestions in this post I am trying to improve my system to run better with a Solid State Drive. But regarding to RAMdisks and /etc/fstab usage I have some understanding problems coming ...
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Fs is read only, "mount -n -o remount /" not working since the fs is not writeable
How can I remount my filesystem rw if the filesystem is read only?
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Clean mounting HFS+ partition after power failure
I have a rather large external harddrive formatted in Apple's HFS+ format, and reformatting it is not an option for me. Now that I have a linux server at home, I have turned journalling off on the ...
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Why aren't my files getting preserved across reboots?
I've managed to get a Wubi installation onto my USB flash drive, which works on both VirtualBox and on a native computer. (The data is on the root.disk file.)
It works completely fine, except for one ...
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How to mount a directory inside a fs instead of the whole fs?
I've got an NTFS partition which I never need as a whole. When using it from Ubuntu I only need a specific directory of it which I like to have mounted into a dedicated directory under my Linux FS ...
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No entry for / in /etc/fstab
I can't find an entry for mounting "/" in /etc/fstab (I was hoping to set commit value to something big because my HDD is pretty slow):
[.../fest]$ cat /etc/fstab
# UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
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What am I missing to get symlinks to work with CIFS?
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I have a headless Ubuntu 10.10 RC box running a few service applications on my home network. I have a Windows 2008 Server hosting all my network shares and hard drives. I am currently ...
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