CIFS share losing access to directories
We have windows share that is always working as it should, directories are always writable.Now the share must be read from an Ubuntu machine so added a mount based on cifs with /etc/fstab//dfs/share...
View ArticleHow can I check if adding noatime to /etc/fstab was effective?
To prevent my SSD from unnecessary write accesses, I entered noatime under the mount options in /etc/fstab for the system and home partitions:UUID=bla-bla-bla-1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro,noatime 0...
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 /home/user/data...
View ArticleAfter rebooting Ubuntu 20.04, fstab mount instructions aren't run until after...
The issue that I am having is that after adding my other internal drives to the fstab, sudo mount -a works until a reboot. After a reboot the drives simply fail to mount with the following error:mount:...
View ArticleUbuntu 18.04 mounting buffalo linkstation always with parse error in fstab
$ cat /etc/fstabgUID=b8e93e66-9575-44f9-8ef5-97665713b7e3 / ext4 defaults 0 0/swap.img none swap sw 0 0//192.168.1.103/share /mnt/Media cifs username=guest,uid=1000 g gHi allI am trying to mount a...
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 ArticleCIFS ver 1.0 mounting broke after update
I'm using Ubuntu as Plex server, mounting NAS shares using CIFS ver 1.0 (highest that my NAS will support). Had to run "sudo mount -a" after every reboot to mount the shares, which WAS working fine...
View ArticlePower event caused read-only disk
Having regained access to the server, my services won't come up due to a read only filesystem...I've attempted a few steps on other articles to no avail, specificallysudo fsck -Af -M, mount -o remount...
View Articlesshfs is not mounting automatically at boot, despite /etc/fstab configuration
Setting up some Ubuntu (13.04) workstation, I am trying to have a remote filesystem mounted (over ssh).The current configI created user someuser and added it to the fuse groupMy fstab entry reads like...
View ArticleSharing (sshfs) a folder with another Linux machine on the same home network...
First and foremost let me thank zx81roadkill for his excellent description of how to share a folder with another Linux machine on the same home network using sshfs. Everything has worked great for me...
View ArticleCIFS mount problem, error cifs_mount failed w/return code = -2
I have a CIFS mount that was working but has broken. It still mounts with sudo mount -a but not at boot. The CIFS share is hosted on openmediavault 5 on a raspberry pi 4. I'm not seeing any errors in...
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 ArticleHow to automount hdd without causing freeze when missing?
I used to add external usb hdds as automounts in /etc/fstab, but sometimes I remove them (or they fail) rebooting the server fails since they won't mount.Is there a way to automount system hdds if they...
View ArticlePartition not working after reboot even with fstab configured correctly
I have configured my /etc/fstab this way:UUID=<uuid> /example/path ext4 nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0Then I try my configuration runningsudo mount -aAnd I can confirm, after running that,...
View ArticleUSB hard drive fails to mount on boot
I have 3 identical make/model external hard drives connected by USB, and /etc/fstab looks like this:[...]UUID=1b83f30d-cb05-460f-ba98-50912a639330 /mnt/disk1 ext4 auto,defaults,nofail 0...
View ArticleAdding Object Storage to /etc/fstab - Getting Parse Error
I have Ubuntu 20.04 on a cloud instance. This instance is on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). I created there an object storage that I add manually using the following commands3fs WTX-Cotton-bucket...
View ArticleAuto mount sshfs volume through fstab with password auth
I have a headless server running Ubuntu 12.04.4 that needs to come back up after a reboot without user intervention. There is an existing manual process that involves looking at files on a remote...
View ArticleHow to mount a Microsoft Storage Space HDD to fresh Ubuntu installation
I have just upgraded my PC from Windows to Ubuntu, but am having some trouble accessing my HDD. The output of sudo fdisk -l is this:Disk /dev/sdc: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168...
View ArticleMounting a drive is chaotic with the two NVMe SSD drives
My new computer has two NVMe SSD chips. Both are on the motherboard (no PCIe cards involved). On one of them there's the operating system and the other is for large data storage. For that, I wrote this...
View ArticleUbuntu 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 with...
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