Mount 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...
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I have recently moved from Ubuntu 16 to 18 and I have a problem using a partition that I have set it automatically mount on startup. The problem is shift-delete or right click-new folder are not...
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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 ArticleMount windows share fails using command line but works using Files/Connect to...
On my new PC running Ubuntu 20.04, I cannot connect and mount our organisation's windows share //server/share either by setting up fstab or by manual mounting such as:sudo mount -t cifs -o...
View ArticleHow can I make fstab entries failure tolerant?
I've been using Linux since 2011, and Ubuntu since 2014; I'm currently running 16.04 and will likely upgrade to MATE 20.04 in the near future.Upgrading means I'll be recreating my /etc/fstab manual...
View ArticleIs it better to use UUID or PARTUUID to automount HDD with fstab?
I'm trying to setup my external harddrive to mount automatically on startup, following Akshit's terminal guide.I initially used the PARTUUID in `/etc/fastab' instead of the...
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 ArticleMounted a disk, mount showing but disk unused
I mounted 2 disks. This is the output of "df" for these drives:/dev/sdb1 1921802432 77852 1824032524 1% /sftpuser/backups/2/dev/sdc1 1921802432 77852 1824032524 1% /sftpuser/backups/1but all data...
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[ubuntu19.10]cant boot into unless using sudo mount -o remount,rw /
I was trying to set some mount for SFTP, in the process.I think I messed up the fstab accidentally.Now on reboot, it boots into recovery, and usingmount -o remount,rw /can let me boot into the...
View Articlemount error(13): Permission denied
I know this question has been asked before, but I've been looking for a solution for a couple of hours now and nothing seems to be working.The frustrating thing is that it used to work on my previous...
View ArticleStart in Emergency mode after installing home on its own parition (ubuntu...
After a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on the ssd of an Acer Aspire 7, I moved the home directory to a separate partition on the hdd by following this guide :...
View ArticleUnable to prevent encrypted boot partition from being automatically mounted
I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed with /root, swap, and /home as logical volumes inside a LUKS2 container and a separate /boot inside a LUKS1 container. I would like the /boot partition to not be...
View ArticleFstab after reboot does not work
I have a problem with the mount Windows directory.(terminal) I mount:mount.cifs //192.168.1.151/_wymiana /mnt/share_2 -o user=wegaand it works.When I go to /etc/fstab and add://192.168.1.151/_wymiana...
View ArticleHow to set correct ownership in NFS?
I have a server (Ubuntu 20.04) with NFS server. I want to share the /home/user for each user. However, on the client (Ubuntu 18.04), ids are usually different from the one on the server leading to...
View ArticleCannot boot when I move /home and /usr to an lvm
I've got a pc with multiple drives and I wanted to make it seem like I only had one partition, so I wanted to use an lvm, but It's not a good idea to boot from an lvm, so I thought I could maybe make a...
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 ArticleDVD mounted without read permissions
I have problems with my DVD drive. When I put a DVD in, it is mounted, but without any read permissions.I tried mounting it manually, but without success. I am able to read directory structure and...
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 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 ArticlePendrive is not copying anything
I am using ubntu-18.04 lts.Recently there was some problem with my pendrive(it was showing very less memory though it contained no files!) so, I formatted it using gparted but now I followed that mount...
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