Questions tagged [mount]
Attaches a file system to a specified point in an existing filesystem hierarchy
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What is /mnt used for, and how does it differ from /media? [duplicate]
Linux newbie here.
Was reading about the Linux filesystem and came across the directories /mnt and /media. AFAIK, they're both used for mounting, and I heard /media was the "new" one and it ...
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Declaring a bind mount in systemd-controlled initrd and persisting systemd attributes for the mount into the system
I know my title is a little bit convoluted so let me explain what I'm doing here in more detail. I am using a ephemeral root setup on my machine, essentially meaning that my / mount is a tmpfs and ...
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permanent vnconfig OpenBSD?
I can manually mount a dd'ed image file (+fdisk, disklabel, newfs) with:
vnconfig vnd0 file.img
mount /dev/vnd0c /mnt/
Question: but where should I put the vnconfig command in OpenBSD?
I updated ...
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Can I mount a specific partition from an image file? [duplicate]
Say I have an .iso file from this dd command:
dd if=/dev/sda of=./image.iso
In the case where the drive contained multiple partitions, how could I say, only mount the second one?
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Difficulty mounting external drive after certain boots
I have a RasPi 4 connected to a 12TB EXT4 hard drive in a Sabrent cage hub which I use for an OpenMediaVault NAS. The drive worked fine for about a month until its file system started to go missing in ...
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how to make drive bootable
I have an old Debian system whose hard drive failed. I connected the drive to a working system and pulled all the data off of the root partition using dd. It looks to me like all the data is fine, so ...
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NFS mount Ubuntu 22.04 - Connection timed out
I have two systems running on Ubuntu 22.04. I want to mount one of the disks of the server (PC1 - auerbach) on the client (PC2 - hubel) using NFS.
The /etc/exports file on PC1 looks like the following:...
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Weird output of mount/findmnt command from inside a chroot jail
On my Linux system I entered a chroot jail using chroot(1) and then mounted a procfs instance on /proc from there.
Now if I do cat /etc/mtab from inside the chroot jail, it shows the full list of ...
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Plugging in an external USB disk gives me one name (sdr), but trying to mount the filesystem on it fails with different name (sdq)
I use a USB external hard drive to back up my home directory. The device is configured as an LVM device with a volume group named homevg and a volume named home that contains an XFS filesystem. When I ...
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Error mounting external LUKS HDD after dd from identical drive
I have two identical external drives used for backup (BK1_LUKS, BK2_LUKS). One has been formatted and encrypted, the other has been duplicated from the first one.
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Find out if any part of a disk is mounted or in use?
I need to confirm that no part of a disk is mounted before over-writing the entire disk. The problem here is that it seems that you have to know the names of any filesystems on the disk before ...
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When mounting with X-mount.idmap, what is the format for the user namespace file?
The mount manpage states for the X-mount.idmap option:
• A user can specify the ID-mapping directly.
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• A user can specify a user namespace file.
The user namespace will then ...
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Dealing with gid collisions when rebuilding a Linux system around an existing disk
I am currently rebuilding a Linux system, migrating to a new distribution (Ubuntu 24.04).
I have one disk which holds several terabytes of user data, which I want to keep. The disk holds a btrfs ...
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Weird result mounting a tmpfs as root in the directory tree
Using unshare -Umr I created a new user, mount namespaces where the calling process is moved into. Then via mount -t tmpfs tmpfs / I mounted a new tmpfs instance on the root / of the directory tree ...
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Guix: How to set one (file-system) as a dependency of another? Or mount one device before device mapping?
Say I have a LUKS partition which encrypts the root file system and whose key resides in another file system.
(mapped-devices (list
(mapped-device
(type (luks-device-mapping-with-options #:...
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Right way to recursively share a path (like a symlink) and proper way to unmount/remount without messing with other mount points
Bind mounts seem to be hard. I am looking for the right way to use a bind mount to mount a given directory to another one pretty much like a symlink (but I can't use a symlink because my application ...
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Failed to umount directory from my RAID1 device (device busy)
I have a system that has 1x SSD and 2x 4TB HDD working under software RAID1. (I'm currently upgrading from Linux Mint 20 to 22, another topic regarding that issue)
On my RAID1 I have LUKS encrypted ...
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shared vs private mountpoints in parent/child mount namespaces
As per explicit request, I opened this question to ask the following:
on Ubuntu linux systems initial (aka root or default) mount namespace has options for mounted filesystems that are different from ...
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Order of mounting of entries in a mount namespace
I'm aware of unshare -m creates a new mount namespace moving the process executing it into the new mount namespace being created.
The latter gets a copy of parent's mount namespace. Indeed look at the ...
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mount options of udisks2 (dmask, fmask) are not applied when mounted with udisksctl (exfat fs)
I have a removable SD Card formatted with exfat which I would like to mount with udisksctlvia the udisks2 mechanism.
What I want to do is to replicate a noexec option by using dmask=0002 and fmask=...
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is there any way I can save a mnt namespace?
like "ip netns add", it mount file "/proc/*/ns/net" somewhere else, when need use the net namespace you can use the mounted file, but when mount --bind a mnt namespace file it ...
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When Debian auto-mounts my phone, is it possible to access it via the command line?
I think I would perhaps have my problem solved if this answer was still current. ...It's got to be a udev problem - or solution anyway!
In short, I need to run rsync to synchronize - a GUI interface ...
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Getting /home/ubuntu/NAS: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member' - Accessing files on a synology NAS drive
I'm trying to follow this https://kb.synology.com/en-uk/DSM/tutorial/How_can_I_recover_data_from_my_DiskStation_using_a_PC#x_anchor_encryptedvolume
sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get install -y mdadm lvm2
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How to use `findmnt --poll` in a script
Raspberry Pi generally mounts two partitions at boot time; here's /etc/fstab:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
PARTUUID=8a6020b5-01 /boot/firmware vfat defaults ...
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modifying systemd tmp.mount parameters [duplicate]
In RHEL 7 and later as well as other Linux distributions, systemctl enable tmp.mount makes the /tmp folder a tmpfs (a temporary file system).
In RHEL 8.10 for example, by default those parameters are ...
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How to remount drive after power loss?
OS is Debian. I have an external hard drive connected to my computer. The computer is on a UPS but I don't have the power supply for the hard drive connected to the UPS. (I want to maximize the run ...
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Different filesystem for the same mount point /tmp , when accessed via ssh , on wsl
I have a Debian system running on wsl
> wsl --version
WSL version: 2.2.4.0
Kernel version: 5.15.153.1-2
WSLg version: 1.0.61
MSRDC version: 1.2.5326
Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511
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Disk-sound after mounting
I bought a new USB3 16TB harddisk - not an SSD but the old-style spinning disks.
Seagate Expansion 16TB HDD
I created a full-disk-partition formatted with ext4 - 14TB after formatting.
Now when I ...
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why won't luks partition mount from fstab and crypttab entries?
I installed fedora 40 on a computer that was running parrot os. During install, I deleted all partitions except a 9TB luks data partition.
Fedora installed fine, but when I add entries in /etc/fstab: ...
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Mount disk with an unknown filesystem
I am attempting to mount a disk via a USB docking station.
I have been informed that the disk was apart of a RAID1 system, however I see no sign of this so far.
Using fdisk -l I can see the disk:
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Is it possible to auto-mount Synology NAS with fstab (NFSv4.1)?
I am trying to mount my new Synology DS923+ connected to my LAN switch with static DHCP reservation. OS: Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon based on Ubuntu 24.04.
I already installed nfs-common package:
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Data Recovery from RAID 1 - Impossible to mount disk
I have an Nvidia DGXA100 station that I use for my research. It has started to shut down brutally (just a couple minutes after startup), probably a watercooling pump breaking down (that would be the ...
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mount.cifs error(78): Remote address changed
Setup:
Windows fileserver (cluster with 2 nodes actually) & a RHEL 8 host residing in the same Active Directory domain, multiple locations on the fileserver mounted using mount.cifs.
Our problem ...
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Startup/Mounting fails because "No free loop devices"
When I switched on my laptop, I suddenly could not log in anymore. Everything was working fine until then, I was not messing with any settings.
When I enter my password on the (gnome) login screen, ...
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No ability to delete files on sftp mounted by sshfs
I mounted sftp dir via sshfs like:
cat <sensitive_data> | sshfs -o password_stdin,allow_other,default_permissions,uid=0,gid=0 $USER@$HOSTNAME: $MOUNT_DIR -oauto_cache,reconnect
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script in systemd service behaves different than running manually
I have a systemd service which runs a loop to check if a smb share is available and mounts it once it is. This works fine for one share, but not fine for another.
After waiting for the share to be ...
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Does systemd always clone the parent process's mount namespace?
The description of the PrivateMounts setting of the systemd execution environment configuration documentation says
File system namespaces are set up individually for each process forked off by the ...
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How to set permission so that `du` can be run as some user on external drive directories that are owned by multiple other users?
I am trying to use the du command as one user from inside a docker container (Telegraf) to get the disk usage of various directories on an NFS-mounted external drive. My set up looks like this:
Both ...
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Linux filesystem remapping
I have an ssd drive and a internal HD one. I want OS pointing to the home located in internal HD and working files Downloads, Music, Videos, Templates, Documentos etc., locatein the HD. My /etc/fstab ...
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Fstab does not mount on boot btrfs with subvolumes but "mount -a" does it
It's my first time playing with btrfs so I just followed few tutorials. Drive mount on boot without problem when I don't want to mount subvolumes but it stopped mounting when I added mountpoints for ...
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(re)mount network drive after password change
We have several Linux servers mounting a network drive
with a line in /etc/fstab like this one:
//10.10.1.10/net_folder/local_folder cifs _netdev,credentials=/etc/security/user_credentials
The drive ...
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Trying to mount a drive, but Mint can't find it?
I'm trying to mount the NTFS partition as described here https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-mount-partition-with-ntfs-file-system-and-read-write-access
The system is installed on sda5 and mounting sda1 is ...
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Docker Compose not synchronising file changes in volume
Reposting from here as I don't quite understand how the "solution" works.
Symptom:
As reported here:
I mount my local files into the container for development. My docker-compose.yml file is ...
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Switch mount's backing device
I'm looking into removing lvm from a root filesystem without reboot or umount.
I was planning on mimicking the lvm device with dmsetup, changing the mount to the new device, then removing lvm. However,...
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My shell script exits if I try to mount from within the script an already mounted drive How can I make my shell script resume?
This is what happens.
I manually and successfully mount my USB drive using mount /media/usb from outside a shell script which I wrote. Therefore, the drive is working and mounted normally.
The very ...
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Unable to Access Location - Error Mounting /dev/sda1 (wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, etc.)
I'm encountering an issue when trying to mount a partition in Ubuntu. When I attempt to access the partition, I receive the following error message:
Error mounting /dev/sda1 at /media/moe404/[...
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Changing Filemodes of Mounts in Linux
I was trying to use an USB-stick in Linux and it didn't go as expected:
I had already created a mountpoint (/mnt), found the device of the newly inserted USB-stick (/dev/sdb1) and mounted it:
# ls -l /...
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How to check for changes on mounted nas if entr and inotify fail?
How can I detect changes on a mounted NAS?
It is mounted via fstab:
//fritz.box/FRITZ.NAS /media/fritz cifs username=foo,password=bar,vers=1.0 0 0
Since I tried entr and inotify to no avail, I'm ...
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fstab not mounting but manual mount works
How can I mount via fstab?
# /etc/fstab
//fritz.box/FRITZ.NAS /media/fritz cifs username=foo,password=bar,vers=1.0 0 0
followed by sudo mount -a; ls /media/fritz/ leads to nothing
While this one ...
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Can not change ISCSI disk mount point to other directory
Problem: I can not change ISCSI disk mount point to other directory.
Currently I have ISCSI disk mounted to /iscsi2
I would like to change it to /iscsi
I changed /iscsi2 to /iscsi in /etc/fstab, but ...
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