Questions tagged [mountpoint]
A mountpoint is a physical location in the partition used as a root filesystem. Use this tag for any questions about mountpoints.
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get a constant mounting point to share folders thru app
I have 3 hard drives in my PC, one for Ubuntu system and two others to keep files I need to use with different app. But for that I need to have persistent path location for those hard drives, and for ...
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Trying to understand two methods of mounting a bitlocker encrypted partition
I have an external HDD with two partitions on it. There's the primary partition and an additional partition I created called "Data" which is bitlocker encrypted (I created the Data partition ...
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Ubuntu partition renamed after installing Airflow on Docker - how to revert partition mount to original name?
I'm a recent Ubuntu 24.04 and Docker user. I'm using Docker Engine 27.3.1. I have 2 disk partitions as "data" and another partition where OS is installed. I installed Apache Airflow using ...
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How to map several folders (e.g `/home`, `/var`) to a different (but the same) partition? [duplicate]
Let's say I'd like to keep /home and /var and possibly several more folders on one single separate partition, but all on the same partition. How should I accomplish this?
I know how I could put all ...
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I want df to return the space I want to simulate for a folder
I have a folder /backup whose df -h /backup output shows 200G available space, as I want 0 GB available and I dont want to add that much data in /backup folder. How can I achieve this? I dont want to ...
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Apparmor blocking NAS access
I upgraded my 510S laptop from 20.04 to 24.04. Now apparmor is giving me fits. I have a file server (NAS), a My Cloud EX-2 Ultra that contains most of my working files. This was a cold install of 24....
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After Ubuntu crashed at the login menu is stated giving me this error : Transport endpoint is not connected
I installed Ubuntu 22.04.04 on my 2009 MacBook Pro.Every thing was working fine until the system un expectedly crashed and after a reboot started displaying this error. Does enybody know how to fix ...
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Where and how should I mount second hdd so that it doesn't use root storage
I have just reinstalled Ubuntu after messing things up with chown in root directory.
I'm trying to save a new mount point for second hdd. sdb1 partition is already formatted as ext4.
The problem began ...
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using xubuntu linux, I created a udev rule to capture adding sdc-z* and mount in a directory, but gets mounted again in /media/user as well
I have written a shell script that is called by a udev rule when a new usb device is added and the partition matches /dev/sd[c-z]* . The shell script does get called, and my shell script mounts it in ...
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Unable to mount specify location
I used the same location before but can't mount to the same location after format.
mkdir /media/videos
mount /xxxx/by-id/xxx /media/videos # no error message.
rmdir /media/videos # can delete. there ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 bash one-liner to identify device backing a LUKS volume?
I have a standard ubuntu encrypted lvm setup. /dev/sda3 is encrypted w/ LUKS. Inside that LUKS container is an LVM ( at /dev/mapper/dm_crypt-0 )and inside that LVM is a filesystem mounted from /dev/...
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Only an expert can solve this [closed]
I tried to mount my /dev/sdc HDD to /home.
Then I tried to create a symlink to /home because my sdc HDD is 16tb.
Basically, I got what I wanted, but now everything is complicated:
wget doesn't work.
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Add a new 16TB HDD and transfer the OS to it
I have 2x 4 TB and I bought another one of 16TB. I mounted it with the following commands:
cd /mnt/
mkdir data2
blkid /dev/sdc
fsck.ext4 /dev/sdc
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc
mount /dev/sdc /mnt/data2
lsblk
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Permission denied when running script, but correct file permissions and ownership are in place [duplicate]
I am unable to run scripts that I previously had been doing:
$ SCRIPT.SH
bash: /media/USER/PATH/bin/SCRIPT.SH: Permission denied
Checking the file permissions and ownership, that are as expected:
$ ...
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Advice? External USB harddrive accidentally unplugged (no activity at time). Re-plugged, but `mountpoint`/`findmnt`/`lsblk` disagree if mounted?
[(This really isn't an unbuntu-specific question, but yeah...)]
So I just accidentally bumped and and unplugged the cable on an external USB harddrive.
There was no activity at the time.
It's btrfs (...
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I am confused about --make-{shared,slave,private,unbindable} flags of the mount command
I am confused about --make-shared, --make-slave, --make-private and --make-unbindable flags of the mount command.
Can someone please explain in simple words , what each flag do ?
and what is the ...
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What are these mounted volumes and how to get rid of them (snaps?)
I'm using gnome on 22.04 for a couple weeks and these volumes have appeared on my taskbar.
They annoyingly stick around whether mounted or unmounted, and their names are unclear. I suspect they are ...
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What is the difference between the root folder "/" and "/media/username/ubuntu-root"?
I recently did some housekeeping on the file system of my workstation (Ubuntu 22.04). I used NCurses Disk Usage in the terminal to get an overview of the largest folders and files.
Amongst others, I ...
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Disk naming clash. Disk name mysteriously changed from Global-Docs-Ext4 to Global-Docs-Ext41, now different from volume name Global-Docs-Ext4
HP ProBook 6360b, Memory 3.8 GB, Intel core i5, Intel HD graphics 3500, Disk 1TB, OS Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS, 64 bit, Gnome 3.36.8, Window Sys X11
I have a separate partition on my Ubuntu laptop for ...
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Ubuntu Installation - Use As, Mount Point, and Device for boot loader installation selections
I am currently installing Ubuntu Desktop on my Windows 11 machine (dual-boot, not replacing Windows OS). I partitioned my disk in half so that half of it is for my Windows OS and the other half is ...
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Fixing , /var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell mount issue
I installed Firefox as a snap and it set my partition's mount point to , /var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell. Now, I'm trying to remove the snap installation of Firefox, and it will not completely ...
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How to output awk to pages instead of a list
Basically I have put my Linux system into read only so I've only got command line. I am trying to output all mountpounts so I can remount the system drive as rw I have awk statement that gives the ...
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Duplicate mount-points for external disks after 22.04.1 upgrade
Just did an upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 with my external storage disks connected.
The system generated mount-points:
'Computer'/media/'homefolder'/4TB-WD-ElementsS - turned into
'Computer'/media/'...
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how to reference different physical drive on linux command line
in Windows, if you have 2 physical drives using C: and D: and you're at
C:\
you can enter:
C:\ dir d:\folder1
to get the directory listing on the other drive. Is there an ubuntu/linux equivalent ...
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make file system accessible again
I'm new to linux, I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 replacing Windows OS.
In Windows I had 4 drives,
C, D, E, F
I have my files on drives E and F
while installing Linux,
I formatted and choose C drive ...
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Can there be a /work partition?
A user got 512 GB SSD and 2 TB HDD. The person asked me to install the Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS on SSD, keep 50GB as /opt, 32GB for /swap and remaining space as /home and the whole 2TB HDD as /work ...
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I think i need a hand with my Gparted partitions, maybe mount-points + automounts?
Hello Im looking to a simple way of using my 2 empty partitions i did format with Gparted, They seem unmounted and im not very sure about setting up the mount points and auto-mount, Im just arriving ...
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ZFS: Backup a disk with mountpoints that conflict with backup computer?
I'm working towards backing up a laptop running Ubuntu on ZFS. I have a backup server also running ZFS on some ancillary volumes (not the root).
I made a snapshot of bpool today and sent it to the ...
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GlusterFS Mount
I am using glusterfs version 9.2 and seem to be having the issue where a mounted glusterfs volume randomly unmounts. I have done some googling and it seems where a couple others have had the same ...
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How to make path specification of partition on 2nd internal ssd *short* -- easy to type?
I used the Disks utility to format my 2nd internal ssd. I added a whole-device partition without a name, and added a filesystem (ext4) name. Everything's working ok: it mounts at startup; the ...
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Harddisk partion
I only have one partition in my sda harddisk. I don't have an sdb partition. Changing the OS will delete all of my data.
If I create a new partition and copy my data there, will this work?
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my drive mappings have all gone away for some reason - i need help to restore them I really want them the same
my current fstab:
taichi:~:5014> cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
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# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <...
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Can't mount my external hard drive, PC is showing unknown error but it work properly with my TV
fdisk -l
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fdisk: cannot open /dev/loop0: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/loop1: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/loop2: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/loop3: ...
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Long boot time, /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume not found
After I mount a hdd I am finding relatively long boot time on ubuntu 20.04.
On my PCI gen4 nvme, systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 10.499s (firmware) + 3.259s (loader) + 4.428s (kernel) + 8.384s (...
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How to get gvfs CD mount point from Terminal?
I am writing a small bash script to automate transcoding CD's, which I would also like to make publicly available. For that I need to get the path where the CD is mounted by gvfs (on my machine /run/...
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Mounting two external hard drives on the same point
I have been using Linux installed on an external hard drive (lets say A) for a year, so everytime my hard drive was connected i could use linux and when it wasnt i could use windows.
Now i have taken ...
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fstab automatically creates mount points
As mentioned here, "you must create the mount point before you mount the partition." But after adding the following lines in fstab and rebooting the system
/dev/sdxy /media/user/...
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Move home second user to another disk
I have got three hard discs.
Ubuntu 20.04 installed on the SSD disc.
I have moved the home of user1 to sdb1. That works.
How do I make the homedir of user2 point to sdc1?
fstab:
UUID=uudi-sda1 / ...
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Mount point of Samba via Xfce [duplicate]
What directory does Xfce use when it mount Samba connection via own GUI File Manager (NetWork)?
I try to look /mnt, /media. They are empty.
I just want to use this mount point in a script and don't ...
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You are running in emergency mode
I attempted to change the name of a mount point using Disks app. After rebooting I got this message:
I don’t care about editing the mount point names. All I want is to get my HHD up and running again....
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drive mountpoint automatic renaming
What is causing this to happen every few months?
BackinTime: "Can't find Snapshots location!"
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Ubuntu 18.04 installation, 2nd large disk not used
Installed Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit on laptop with 2 drives but installation did not go as planned. While I did make a 169 GB partition on my 2nd drive, Ubuntu didn't use it and stuffed everything: ...
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Delete mounting points
I primarily using Ubuntu (16.04) but have also Win10 installed. Recently I need Windows more often and switch between the two OS. I have two partitions with the operating systems (C for Win and '...
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18.04.4 Ubuntu won't launch in Virtual Box 6.1
I am taking a Cyber Security class at the local college and am a little experienced in IT. I have loaded Ubuntu 18.04.4 into Virtualbox 6.1 on a Windows 10 HP laptop. The HP has a i7 7500u processor ...
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I don't see a 3TB disk
I have 2 disks in my PC: one is 1TB where I have installed Lubuntu and another one 3TB (empty for now).
I see both disks correctly in Disks, Gparted and KDE partition manager. But I can not make it ...
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Using Previous Directories in Reinstalling Ubuntu 19.04
I separated /home and /opt from / in the previous Ubuntu 19.04 installation. Now Ubuntu doesn't boot and I am trying to reinstall it. Can I use the previous /home and /opt in the current installation?
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Dosen't my computer has other partitions mounted?
I have an Ubuntu 18.04 loaded on my machine. I recently got a little mixed up and have made new partitions by making the others a little small. But now I have to delete them but not finding the way. I ...
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How to remove files hidden under /tmp mountpoint?
I recently created a RAM /tmp by adding this to /etc/fstab:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0
Everything works fine, and in theory the system runs faster now, but at boot time /var/...
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Mount / unmount storage device what happens to files
I have problems understanding the following.
In /etc/fstab I've mounted an external storage volume with:
//xyz.backup.com/backup /home/me/external_backup_volume cifs user=xyz,password=xyz,users 0 0
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