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Automounting is the process where mounting and unmounting of certain filesystems is done automatically by a daemon.

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There is a headless machine, with Debian as its OS: $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 11 \n \l $ uname -a Linux mymachine 6.1.99 #33 SMP Tue Jan 21 11:32:39 CST 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux What I wish to ...
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I have a LUKS-encrypted partition (not the root partition, which by default is encrypted by default with ecryptfs, generally deprecated, so I'm told) and I'm just trying to get it to be mounted at ...
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My task is to have a custom mount point and for the mount itself to happen automatically. that is, the device is connected, a folder with its name is created in some place (/mnt/usb/{name}) and the ...
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I have OpenWRT installed on some of my routers and to add additional storage for settings as well as programs that might be installed on the router and maybe logs, OpenWRT recommends you plug storage ...
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We have two servers. Application sever A and NFS file server B. Server B is shared among multiple various applications and it's generic NFS storage host that we don't have access to and it's corporate ...
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I've been struggling to make sense of something, so would appreciate some help. I am mounting a remote NFS drive onto my Debian system with the following fstab entry which uses the systemd automounter,...
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I have set up on my laptop a systemd mount and automount unit to mount a NFS share on demand. Naturally, this works as long as I am in the same network as the NFS server. If I leave my home network, ...
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I'm on Automotive Grade Linux. My system has a partition /dev/sda15 which is mounted to /data. I want to change the mount attribute "noexec" permanently, but There is no directive for sda15 ...
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I am using fedora cinnamon and I need my PC to read DVDs. For some disks, the file manager can't mount them automatically. I know the problem isn't from the disks because I can read them by mount them ...
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I have a laptop without an internal hard drive. To get some use out of it, I'm considering putting the root partition on external media, over USB. I can't see any reason this wouldn't work, but I ...
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I looked into the default /etc/auto.master and I saw the following. # # Include central master map if it can be found using # nsswitch sources. # # Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as ...
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OS: Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon. My computer has 2 internal drives both formatted as ext4: 500 GB SSD 4 TB HDD Output of sudo blkid: /dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="7700-D60B" BLOCK_SIZE="512" ...
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Issue: An nfs server is down and it takes your computer down with it! Specifically it blocks booting. A less drastic example is you take your laptop to your friends and then it can't boot because it's ...
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I have the following requirements: If a particular USB stick is inserted, it should be automatically detected and mounted. The information where it must be mounted will be in /etc/fstab (of course). ...
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when installing RHEL-8.10 from rhel-8.10-x86_64-dvd.iso in the partition scheme I choose encrypt my data. And for all the partitions I have checked as encrypt such as /home and /var and / and however ...
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I am currently rebuilding a Linux system, migrating to a new distribution (Ubuntu 24.04). I have one disk which holds several terabytes of user data, which I want to keep. The disk holds a btrfs ...
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I have an Orange Pi One with the Armbian OS. I want to use it to collect data from sensors 24/7. And be able to save the database to a flash drive. Considering the presence of only one USB port, as ...
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I want all the users to automount from a NFS server except for a few accounts that should use the local home folder. Thus each client computer (and the nfs server) has a few folders in /home, the ...
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My situation is a bit unique: The scenario ~ I have successfully encrypted my root partition and boot partitions. My boot partition lies on my usb along with the /boot/efi on a separate unencrypted ...
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im using rclone to mount google drive but the permissions are completely broken. im using debian 12 -> sudo namei -l /mnt/cloud/gdrive/gd1/3D f: /mnt/cloud/gdrive/gd1/3D drwxr-xr-x root root / ...
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I am trying to set up my NFS system between my server node and my client node running on rhel9. They are both on different physical servers on the same network. The nfs-server daemon is properly ...
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On a Oracle Linux 7.9 server, I have a directory that is mounted from another system. The fstab entry is: [email protected]:/opt/commonfiles /opt/commonfiles/ fuse.sshfs identityfile=/home/myuser/....
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As from object, I want to mount some directories (with binding) at login and possibly unmount them at logout. At the beginning I tought about autofs, but it dynamically creates mount points, that's ok ...
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How can I keep my external hard drive connected to the USB port but in an unmounted state to preserve it? Is it possible to remount it at any time? I would like to keep it on for just an hour a day ...
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Default mount path with udisks2, udiskie is /media/XXXXX On some distributions /media/user/XXXXXX How to change automount path for USB drives to a shorter /mnt/sdb1 /mnt/sdc2 etc. With udisks2, ...
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I managed to automount an exFAT drive with rw permissions. The mount point is a directory I made (/media/usb1) and the drive itself is named usb1. sudo dumpcap -i eth1 -w /media/usb1/logs -b duration:...
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On my Ubuntu system, I noticed that some file managers, when open, they can mount any drive that was connected via one of my USB ports (as non-root). In the attempt of preventing this from happening I ...
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I have a samba server that is running on my home router that I am attempting to connect to on system startup. Importantly the router will automatically setup the share names for me and they are in the ...
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Like many people I've had trouble with machines hanging when the NFSv3 server was not available (switched off). I saw various suggestions , like soft/hard , intr, bg etc being set... not a lot seems ...
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I'm new Linux user so be kind. Whenever I boot my Linux on PC I get different uuid from media. See this dir: /media/my_name/2B283D3C465F37B722/folder_name/folder_namev1 And when I open for example ...
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I have an external microSD card plugged into my machine via a USB stick. I believe it was auto-mounted because I can see $ ls /media/me 7538-3DFD I believe it is mounted to /dev/sda1 because I see $ ...
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The drive that my /home folder lives on is showing signs of failing, and I'm trying to migrate to a new drive.  I purchased a 4TB SSD, formatted it with ext4, mounted it as an external drive with a ...
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I was wondering if it's possible to automatically decrypt and mount a ZFS pool and its datasets at boot. Currently, I have to unlock the pool manually by using the command # zfs load-key -a and then ...
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Background I'd like to store music on /dev/sda1, which is a physically separate drive. The /etc/fstab contains: # grep "music" /etc/fstab UUID=10...92 /mnt/music ext4 defaults,user,rw 0 2 ...
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I am facing an issue with automount on a bunch of linux centos hosts. I see the following line in /var/log/messages to thousands automount[21736]: do_mount_indirect: indirect trigger not valid or ...
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The address could not be accessed. I'm trying to mount the disk, but I can't because of an error
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I have access to a few network hosted drives with different types of protocols (smb, webdav icsi, NFS probably more webdav and smb but I want include maybe more). Those drives are not always ...
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I want to have a "backup" on an SD card that I have always plugged in my laptop. I got the UUID and put in /etc/fstab/, the entry is UUID=xxxx /home/enrico/sd_card exfat defaults 0 2. I ...
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It's quite difficult to find information on how automounting of removable media works in modern Linux distributions. Usually, the answers are like edit /etc/fstab. But those are not useful. I want to ...
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I mount drive using command mount and modify fstab file (so disk should be visible after restart). Unfortunately, after system reboot, mount isn't visible in the system lsblk -a says, disk is ...
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I have set up FreeIPA as IDM software for my network and successfully configured a Kerberos aware NFS server and Kerberos aware NFS clients. When a user logs into a machine, it's user directory on the ...
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I was copying files from a storage drive to the SD card mounted in my Chromebook R11 (Linux Mint) when it locked up. I resorted to turning off and rebooting, my file reader no longer recognizes the SD ...
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After I boot my computer, the login screen comes-up quickly and I am able to login. However, the network identification is slow and the network is "connected" after a good 30 seconds / 1 ...
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In Ubuntu 20.04, I installed the zfsutils-linux package and formatted an external USB thumbdrive to use ZFS (sudo zpool create mypool /dev/sdb). I then changed its mount point to /media/user/mypool (...
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I have mounted an external drive using an entry/etc/fstab , UUID=ba6274de-e241-43ef-9dd0-5147c29e883a /mnt/500GB_Seagate_Drive xfs defaults,x-gvfs-show 0 0 I have other drives with do not have an ...
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I have been looking for how to automount a USB flash/thumb drive on a Linux machine which does not have a GUI. So, it must be CLI-only solution. The most common answer I found was based on editing ...
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Starting on a server where /home had just one user, I thought "adding" the home directories of the other users via NFS using automount's * and &. Also the NFS has a home directory (but ...
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My problem is similar to that described in Need example use of autofs.master.d/: I wanted to mount individual users' home directories to /home/*user* using both, * wildcard and directory /etc/auto....
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When I plug a USB Key on my desktop install of a redhat fork, USB is automounted as /run/media//. I would like that plugged removable device will be automounted for another logged user (not the ...
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I've got a .mount file that I globbed together as /etc/systemd/system/opt-hass-config.mount [Unit] Description=Mount the config dir of hass.mydomain.com [Mount] What=//[IP ADDRESS]/config Where=/opt/...
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