folder bind from fstab visible as mounted Devices
I mounted a windows ntfs partition with a Veracrypt encryption through fstab and bound one of the folders inside to a different Location. The idea is to share certain files between my two operating...
View Articlesda1 ro, sda2 rw but with bindings to sda1! How to?
I try to do the followingIn our fstab:/dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults,noatime,ro 0 0/dev/sda2 /mnt/dd2 ext3 defaults,noatime,rw 0 1/etc /mnt/dd2/binds/etc none bind 0 0/etc /mnt/dd2/binds/etc none...
View ArticleexFAT auto mount user rw
I format an internal drive as exFAT so it can be shared with Win if necessary and mounted it from Disks, creating the following fstab entry:LABEL=Media /mnt/Media auto...
View ArticleUbuntu 18.04 - Can't Mount Devices by Double Click on File Manager If They...
I have few HD with NTFS on my computer.Usually I can see those Hard Drives as devices in the File Manager home (computer:///).By double clicking them they are mounted.I wanted to make sure when they...
View ArticleHow to mount S3 bucket automatically on reboot
I am using s3fs to mount an s3 bucket on my Ubuntu server:sudo apt-get install s3fssudo vim /etc/passwd-s3fs // <--put user access key and secret key in this filesudo chmod 640 /etc/passwd-s3fs //...
View ArticleMounted ExFat Disk: No such file or directory
I'm using an ExFat external disk on Ubuntu 18.04.4 with auto-mount but after a while I can't copy or edit items on the disk anymore but the items are still accessible.After a system-restart I can write...
View ArticleCan't remount with new options in /etc/fstab
I have a partition /dev/sdb8 with ext4 filesystem on it. At first I mounted it with usrquota,grpquota options in /etc/fstab /dev/sdb8 /quota ext4 usrquota,grpquota 0 0 mount /quota mount # I can see it...
View ArticleMounting /tmp as tmpfs on Ubuntu 20.04
I'd like to mount /tmp without fstab entry using tmp.mountHowever on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, it doesn't seem to work. user@user-x1:~$ systemctl status tmp.mount Unit tmp.mount could not be...
View ArticleSeveral Apps not launching
When trying to launch Discord, Atom, calculator, VLC media player and some other apps, nothing happens.Tried to open via terminal and got:system_key.go:126: cannot determine nfs usage in...
View Article"welcome to emergency mode" after ntfs-config
Computer booted to black screen 'welcome to emergency mode'. Now, only with external drive connected it passes through error! I am betting on sudo ntfs-config since I did something with it just before....
View ArticlePop_OS! 19.10 to 20.03 Upgrade Fail?
Clicking Download shows these errorimage.Tried sudo findmnt --verify, it shows findmnt: /etc/fstab: parse error at line 12 -- ignored1 parse error, 0 errors, 0 warningsthis is my fstab file data, line...
View Article20.04 upgrade makes NAS unavailble
I have been running 16.04 for four years and opted to upgrade to 20.04.I have two Buffalo Linkstation NAS devices that I've been using for years without too much difficulty. However after this upgrade,...
View ArticleUbuntu 18.04 - Mount Issues
Hoping everyone is safe and sound during the lockdown!Linux newbie here (apologies for any incorrect terms or lack of verbose diagnostics), wondering if anyone out there can provide me a helping hand...
View ArticleSystem will not boot!
I unplugged my computer to do some cleaning at my desk and when I plugged it back in I could not longer boot into Ubuntu 18.04. It sits for a minute and a half and goes into emergency mode. I ran the...
View ArticleNFS stopped working after upgrade
After upgrade, NFS modules stopped loading into kernel, /proc/fs/nfsd stopped being mounted.Using modprobe to load the NFS modules successfully installs, but when attempting to mount -t nfsd...
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...
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 ArticleRead/Write permission of 2nd hard drive
I know that this question is asked before, but nothing seems to work. I have a double boot windows 10 - ubuntu 18.10 on the NVME and a 2nd 1 TB HDD drive (ntfs). Windows of course have permition on the...
View Articlefstab mounting not working with Ubuntu 20.04
Having a fresh install of 20.04 along with cifs-utils, I tried to reuse my fstab that I ported over from 18.04. the manual mount command that I wanted to reuse looks like this...
View ArticleHide desktop icons for certain mounted volumes
I have fixed and removable disks/volumes and they all show an icon on the desktop. I only want the removable mounts shown.There is a dconf setting to show/hide icons, but it shows/hides all of them. I...
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