Ubuntu booting to maintenance mode after altering /etc/fstab
I've got a file server running Ubuntu Server LTS 16.04.1. Originally it had 2 hard drives, the first running my OS (swap and boot), the second was strictly a media storage drive (1 whole partition...
View Article"ALERT! /dev/mapper/server--vg-root does not exist. Dropping to shell!"
So I guess I messed up my Ubuntu Server just now. I installed a 500GB hard drive, formatted it with ext4 and then wanted to statically mount via editing /etc/fstab and the UUID. For some reason I...
View ArticleWhy is mount.cifs not working in fstab any more after upgrading from 16.04 to...
My fstab for connecting to a local NAS was always //192.168.111.112/RAID /home/moi/share/OMV cifs noauto,users,username=USERNAME,passwd=PASSWORD After upgrading my system from Lubuntu 16.04 to 18.04...
View ArticleFstab doesn't mount with exec
I have an ext4 partition that I mount using the following fstab line UUID=41dec246-654d-4e35-9d4e-68150e40c5b0 /mnt/Data ext4 defaults,user 0 2 But then I realized that I can't execute from that...
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External harddisk detected but not mounting
I have a WD MyPassport that is NTFS formatted with only 1 partition, and works perfectly fine on Windows. It was working well with Ubuntu until a few days ago (points 3 and 4 explains what changes I...
View ArticleHow to convert sshfs command to fstab entry?
From another SO question, I understand I should create an entry in fstab to permanently mount an access to a virtual machine. I am not Linux expert. The magic command which allows me to perform this...
View ArticleHard drives unable to rw on ubuntu 17.10 (hard drives mounted at mount point)
I have recently had this issue which was not present before, I have 2 hard drives which are mounted to mount locations. Today I have noticed that I cannot create folders on these hard drives and I...
View ArticlePlex media server and mount issues in Ubuntu 13.04
hopefully it's not too much of a newbie question...... so, i have decided to drop plex media server onto an Ubuntu install in order to provide my house with a stable platform that will maximize...
View Articleinstalling a new hard drive on an existing Ubuntu machine
I have a desktop machine running Ubuntu for a few years. I needed more space for my files and for that purpose I purchased and installed a brand new HDD in it. Everything is working great. The only...
View ArticleRemove a deleted shared folder from a VirtualBox instance?
I have VBox 6.x running on Win 8.1, with Ubuntu 18.04x64 Guest. I reloaded an old Ubuntu image I had created and it still has references to a shared folder (that was formerly automounted) in the...
View ArticleAutomatic Mount Options enabled, no boot
I was trying to mount an external drive that it wasn't recognising for some reason. I then went into disk utility, found a drive I thought was that one, went into the mount options for that drive and...
View ArticleCan't get my ntfs partitions UUID in 15.10
I installed Ubuntu 15.10, and I can't mount my NTFS partitions I searched a lot and found few solutions and tried them but the funny thing is that everytime I get the UUID's that the partitions had...
View ArticleHow to mount Windows Share on Ubuntu
Currently having issues with mounting a drive to a windows share via my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. Thoughts? Sudo nano /etc/fstab //192.168.4.12/Share/Videos /media/Plex cifs...
View ArticleError mounting system-managed device /dev/sda5
How can I solve this problem? Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sda5: Command-line `mount "/media/naymar/skool"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: [mntent]: line 2 in /etc/fstab is bad...
View ArticleHow to fix not working trash on bind mounts in Ubuntu 19.04? (and hide them...
I've got two machines running same Ubuntu 18.10. On both of them I have several bind mounts in /etc/fstab as shown below: # file system mount point type options dump pass /mnt/hdd/folder...
View ArticleMount from fstab always mounts as root
I've read all the related questions but I can't make it work. On my ubuntu 16.04 server I want to mount an external vfat disk to share via nfs. I have made a folder (/media/passport) which finally...
View ArticleRoot 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...
View ArticleRaid filesystem check or mount failed (after probable physical shock) [closed]
As this relates to an old version of ubuntu, I have now posted the question to serverfault. I work on a server where the operating system is installed on an SSD but data storage is on internal...
View ArticleChange the mounting point for a HFS+ formated drive
I followed the instructions in this post. I used the command: $sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdXY /media/mntpoint The drive mounts in the directory I pointed it to. It works perfectly, but I...
View ArticleWhy does the boot process keep referencing the drive/partition?
I recently replaced two 1-terabyte hard drives with a single 4-terabyte hard drive. To make sure the new drive would work redundantly, I tested out the nofail option (see the fstab man page for...
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