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Do Ext4 file systems not automatically mount?
I'm trying to use 24.10 Oracular Orial and I have an external USB hard drive which I have tried partitioning as MBR, and I also later tried as GPT. Both cases, I created just 1 partition with fdisk. ...
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USB storage device requires unplugging and re-plugging to make it work after reboot
When I do lsblk or blkid it just does not show up until I go and physically unplug/re-plug the USB.
I've tried the disabling Auto-suspend method so it's not that, not sure what's going on. Is it the ...
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Error while trying to mount pendrive with exFAT [duplicate]
When I insert my pendrive I am given this error:
Error mounting: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'
This is the VX-EDU version.
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Why do i get wrong filesystem error on mounting external drive whilst correct ntfs-utils is installed?
since today I get the following message when inserting usbstick/sd card:
Aankoppelen bestandssysteem is mislukt
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/wouter/Kali Live: Command-line
`mount -t "...
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How to unmount a USB flash drive (that is shared over SAMBA) without having to turn off SAMBA first?
I have a USB drive that is shared over the network via a SAMBA share. This is because the contents are to be managed by a remote user.
Now, there is a local user with physical access to the USB drive....
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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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How do I access the contents of my flash drive while booting from it? [Xubuntu]
I'm trying to recover some files from a Windows computer using a Xubuntu live bootable flash drive. I've found the files that I want to copy on my Windows drive, but don't know how to mount the flash ...
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How to make your ubuntu filesystem read-only
I wonder whether there is a way to make my ubuntu read-only when I mount it on another linux system. Let me clear what I want. I have a usb stick on where my ubuntu is installed. However, the problem ...
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Why does the mount point keeps changing, and how can I prevent it?
When I plug in an external USB drive, it automatically mounts and it's accesible in /media/disk/
However after a while, this is how my /media directory looks like:
cesar@minas-tirith:~$ ls /media/
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