Lubuntu, broken fstab and non existent swap
I did a fresh install of Lubuntu desktop (meant as a headless machine mostly), with formatting the disk via installer. Apparently it didn't create a partition properly.. no GPT but msdos. The machine...
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Freezing on startup (systemd problem?)
I have a laptop Dell Precision 3510 and my Kubuntu 17.04 very often gets frozen on startup. What I have seen from the output of the command journalctl -xb is, it gets frozen due to timing out on...
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Prevent HDD unmount in Nautilus
I've 1 SSD for OS and 3 HDD's for data. Starting with my first 3 TB drive it was mounted to /media/[user]. Unfortunately this HDD was unmountable by user in Nautilus. Using some forum's I've found...
View ArticleChange timeout to mount nfs from fstab, on boot
I'm using ubuntu 18.04.1. I configured /etc/fstab to mount a nfs on boot. The remote system isn't allways on, so, the local machine has a timeout of 2 minutes, on boot, trying to mount the remote file...
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 following:...
View Articleproblem with my LVM and fstab
folks, I have a problem when I set up my LVM in fstab I get a constant scroll of errors at reboot. I believe I have setup my LVM correctly I must be doing something wrong in the fstab. I'll post...
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...
View ArticleHow to move or link /tmp folder to existing partition mount?
I have an additional partition mounted at /data: /dev/mapper/mypartition /data ext4 default 0 1 Now I want to also move my /tmp folder to /data/tmp. I tried by adding another fstab entry:...
View Articlefstab mounting: permission setting
I have an issue with mounting my NTFS data partition (separate drive). This is the drive (fdisk -l): Disk /dev/sdb: 232,9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512...
View Articlecan't find ect folder in terminal - mounting partition external drive [on hold]
can't locate the fstab file in /ect folder in terminal? watching this video from 2014 to partition and mount an external drive for steamgames using unbuntu. In the video he is in the media folder and...
View ArticleFiles disappear when copied to mounted davfs drive, but I can see them from...
I have an aws Ubuntu and I mount an external drive to it, like this:sudo mount -t davfs -o noexec http://www.whatever:port//folder/another_folder/another_folder2/ /mnt/another_folder2 After then I...
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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 ArticleMount error no such file or directory
Yesterday I worked with mount for the first time it was working.Today my Ubuntu wasn't responding so I had to reboot. But now when I try to acess of my network it fails.Moreover, when I try sudo mount...
View ArticleHow To mount Directory instead of Symlink in Ubuntu
I want to mount a directory to another directory. Reason to not use a symlink is Synology's stupid decision to not support it.I have a dual boot system and work regularly on Ubuntu and Windows 10.There...
View ArticleUnwanted persistent mounts in Ubuntu 18.04 [on hold]
I recently upgraded an old system to Ubuntu 18.04 and have got everything almost as I want it. I've been converting partitions to lvm2 and needed to juggle about a few mounted filesystems, including...
View ArticleQuestion about cifs, fstab and automount
I am relatively new to Linux/Ubuntu. I have looked high and low on this one and the closest articles I found are:Fstab mount smbfs share for user noauto asking for password via GUIHere is what I am...
View ArticleUnable to mount "Volume1" folder on NAS
To copy a patch file to the NAS I have on my network, I need to excess the Volume1 folder. Usually I mount my NAS with Samba, but when I do that I have no access to the Volume1, and the invisible...
View ArticleMounting Windows server shares in fstab
I want to be able to save to an XLSM file on Windows Server 2008. I can open the file using LibreOffice but cannot save using smb.Research has let me to believe that I need to somehow mount the server...
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 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...
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