CIFS mount in FSTAB does not work after update
A few hours ago i made a full update via the software-center. The mounted shares allready worked fine, but after updating i just get this error message:mount error(22): Invalid argument Refer to the...
View Articlepermissions option in mount ntfs
I recently read this answer about mounting NTFS partitions in linux, so that I can change file and folder permissions (chmod). And they explain that I use the option "permissions". Example:#...
View ArticleWill mounting /tmp with noexec and nosuid cause problems? [duplicate]
I plan to use this line in /etc/fstab on Ubuntu a 14.04 server running LAMP:/run/shm/tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev,noexec,size=8G 0 0My question is, does anyone know if I will create problems by mounting /tmp...
View Articledev-sda2.device takes longer during boot in Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10 than other...
/dev/sda2 is my root partition. I'm using an SSD and it's not worn out. dev-sda2.device doesn't take more than a second in pop os or archlinux.This is my # systemd-analyze blame:7.558s dev-sda2.device...
View ArticleBinding mounted SSD under /home using fstab, can you use the /proc/mounts path?
I have three SSDs in my system. The first, physically in the hardware (if that matters), is my Windows installation, the second my Ubuntu 20.04 installation, and the third is an NTFS storage drive. I...
View ArticleMount only a part of a disk to a folder
Hi have the following problem.I have a disk /dev/sda1 mounted on /. The same disk contains a /home directory and I want to mount only that directory on a /backup mount-point because I have a third...
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Can't change permissions on a network share smb/CIFS
I'm sure this is simple for someone but I have tried for the last 2 days every piece of information from googling and still no joy! So I would really appreciate some help. I'm newish to the world of...
View ArticleHow to Block Automounting of a Specific Drive (USB connection) With ** Three...
I need to block the auto mounting of a specific external drive (USB connection, by UID) that has three different mount points (partitions)?The contents of this drive were created with ddrescue - to...
View ArticleHow to automatically mount a folder and change ownership from root in virtualbox
It is my first time using virtualbox and ubuntu (14.04), I am on a host Windows 7 OS.I am trying to mount a shared folder that has files I need to access both in the virtualbox and on the windows OS. I...
View ArticleExternal drive keeps getting mounted under /media/ even though I have it in...
I have 3 physical external USB drives. All are btrfs. Two are combined into a single volume, the other is not. The two volumes are both in /etc/fstab to be mounted at /mnt and that works fine, but the...
View ArticleHow to stop disks from being automagically mounted on boot?
I have a btrfs filesystem RAIDed across several disks. The machine is connected via USB to an external hard-drive bay where three disks live. In my fstab I have a mount entry for one of the disks and...
View ArticleBoot.mount fails after upgrading to 18.04
This problem has happened across many of our servers that were upgraded to 18.04 from 16.04. The common configuration is that root is an LVM, and either there is a /boot partition, or a /boot and...
View ArticleCreate a Ramdisk with predefined folder structure possible?
I have a ramdisk defined in fstab and it's been working perfectly:ramdisk1 /media/ramdisk ramfs defaults,size=8G,x-gvfs-show 0 0Recently I want to change the ramdisk in such a way that when the system...
View ArticlePrevent mounting a partition in fstab
So I feel really bad for asking this question because it looks like it has been asked a million times on the internet. I am even finding a very consistent answer, and I am not getting any errors when I...
View ArticleMount external ext4 with changed uid and gid
I'm trying to share a single external hard-drive between two ubuntu different machines. The problem is, my user uid and gids are different across the two machines.Is there a mount option for ext4 or...
View ArticleHow to mount a hard disk as read-only from the terminal
How do you mount a hard disk from the command line as read-only? I don't want or need a link to the man page, I want the exact thing I will have to type in if the following is true:disk to mount is on...
View ArticleMounting droboshare from linux
I am attempting to mount a drobo (via droboshare attached to the network) from linux and running into roadblocks and have run out of ideas.When I issue the smbclient -L IPADDRESS I get the...
View ArticleReliably mounting permanently using SSHFS
I want to permanently mount a remote directory with SSHFS and I've used fstab to do this--but only to some success. The problem is that any downtime experienced by the remote server ensures that I'll...
View ArticleHow to fix NFS mount on RPI4b with Ubuntu Server 20.04 arm on boot
So, weird stuff. I have an RPI2b installed 20.04-32 early May, NFS mount works flawlessly on boot.Now I got an RPI4b and tried 20.04-64/32 and the same NFS mount gloriously fails on boot.I've got a...
View ArticleNFS mounts not happening at boot in 18.04 or 18.10
I'm trying to set up a couple of NFS mounts to automatically mount at boot. I'm not new to this; I did this on Solaris in 1985.Here's what I have in /etc/fstab:iomega:/nfs/Music /music nfs rw,auto,user...
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