Questions tagged [mount]
Questions about mounting file systems. (Examples include a CD, a DVD, an external hard drive and a USB thumb drive.)
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How do I access the photos on my SD card on elementary OS?
I am new to Linux and StackExchange, and I'm having trouble finding my SD card so I can import my photos into GIMP for editing.
I have tried various commands using the terminal and I've looked in the ...
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Cannot mount DVDs. Do I just have bad hardware?
I have been trying to play a DVD several times since Loki, but I have never been able to mount the disk.
I have used the included Videos app, VLC, and Totem. I have installed ubuntu-restricted ...
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How to mount a Mojave/HighSierra APFS partition as read only in elementary OS?
I recently had an issue relating to BootCamp that rendered my Mojave partition unbootable, so I got interested on how to read that APFS partition to retrieve the files using my elementary OS Juno, ...
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Mount -o user&password
I'm trying to use mount but the password didn't work
mount -t cifs davfs %url% %directory% -o username=%username%,password=%password%
mount: bad usage
can someone help me?
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How to change usb mount rules?
Is there any way to change the mount rules on files?
It's showexec by default and I need it to mount as exec.
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Can't mount Windows 10 Partition on Loki
I've searched before posting this. The top answer was kind of my problem. I formatted and fresh installed Windows 10 (1803 version) then made a partition and installed Elementary OS. Everything works ...
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How do I find the device name assigned to USB thumb drive?
I am having some trouble mounting USB thumb drives in elementary. When I insert a thumb drive, it does not automount (I understand that this is not supported in elementary).
When I look for the ...
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Can't access other drives after installing elementary
I installed elementary OS and I can't seem to access drive D: and E:
Previously, it used to show that it could not mount.
Right now, it does not show anything. The drives do not open at all.
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Mount new USB Drives automatically [duplicate]
is it possible that new USB drives mount automatically
at this time I have to mount all my pen drives with gnome disk utily,
So is there a script or service that recognize all new pen drives and ...
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Loki not showing files from iPhone iOS 11.2.1
I'm enjoying new install of elementary OS Loki. BUT, I need to access photos from an iPhone. I am connecting the iPhone using a USB 3.0 port in the back of a NUC. When I click "Trust this computer" on ...
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Anyone got autofs work with Elementary OS?
I'm trying to get autofs work with nfs shares with no luck.
I can mount them myself, but autofs do not work.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autofs
Used settings from that help.
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Cannot eject external harddrive
On elementary OS Loki, if I mount my external hard disk and eject the hard disk, the external hard disk continues spinning. And if I shutdown the computer it takes a long time. Is this a bug?
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mount shared folder in Virtual Box
I am emulating elementary OS via VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro.
In Terminal this command as root
mount -t vboxsf source destination
outputs:
mount: unknown file system type ‘vboxsf‘
Guest ...
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Unable to mount or read SD card
having a lot of trouble mounting and reading an SD card in Elementary. I'm running the latest Elementary, all up to date, on a Lenovo Thinkpad T450s.
I got a new SD card and plugged it in. Couldn't ...
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Load ZFS Partition under Devices
this is my first experience on Elementary OS and I'm pretty new to Linux/Ubuntu. I find my way around pretty easily with Google at my fingertips. Somehow I could not find any sources about the ...
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(Is it possible to find out) what caused or might have caused my encrypted home folder to get unmounted?
Two days ago while I was working with OpenShot video editor that was constantly crashing, my home folder got unmounted. When I tried to access my data there were only two files in my home folder: ...
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External HDD doesn't appear in Files
I am trying to connect an NTFS-formatted hard drive with a USB-SATA adapter, but for some reason it won't appear in the devices list in Files unless I mount it manually.
However if I mount it ...
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Mounting internal drive to be shared between users
I have a question regarding drive mounts.
I installed Elementary on a separate SSD. 3 partitions - swap, file system and home.
I then installed a 1TB hard drive. The drive was partitioned to ext4 ...
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No USB when already logged
I have an amazing problem (that's why we love eOS !).
If I plug an USB in my laptop, He don't reconize it (in lsusb too).
If I plug an USB BEFORE loggin, it's reconized (only once, if I eject my USB ...
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Will the developers add the option to automount external media & devices? [closed]
I, my family, my friends and colleagues have all abandoned Elementary OS for a return to Ubuntu for one simple reason: automounting of external media and devices. It isn't just the bother of have to ...
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Messed up Mount Options
I tried to to workaround elementary os not having the option of automount at startup by using the gnome-disks-utility and then it modified the /etc/fstab file. It was working fine, until after I ...
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How to install programms on the multiple partitions?
I'm using Elementary on notebook with 1TB HDD and 16GB SSD. I've installed Elementary on SSD and cut HDD into two partitions: one with windows in NTFS and other in ext4 as additional space for ...
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Cannot login due to elementary OS thanks to Veracrypt and a possibly invalid volume
I have Freya with an encrypted partition and decided to try Veracrypt. It created a partition I'll named like /dev/mnt/veracrypt7. After fiddling with the app, I gave up thinking I'm already well ...
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This Folder Does Not Belong to You
I followed this guide to encrypt my home folder and now I cannot access my external hard drive. As this guide instructs, I created a temporary user with encrypted home and migrated all my files to ...
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How do I access my Truecrypt container?
I am migrating from OS X and have some Truecrypt containers that I want to access and eventually convert to Linux friendly containers. What solutions exists for elementary OS and is there one over the ...
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how to automatically run a script as root to mount a network share
I'm rather new to *nix and have played a little with Ubuntu, Mint and now Elementary OS.
I'm doing a mistake but I don't understand where.
I'm mounting a network share via
sudo mount -t cifs //xxx....
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How to automatically mount CDs and DVDs on insertion?
I was hoping someone could explain how to automatically mount CDs and DVDs on inserting them into the drive instead of having to open files and clicking on the drive.
I am using Freya 0.3.1.
I am ...
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mount: / is busy
I have a late 2014 mac mini with the latest osx and parallels installed.
I'm trying to install elementary os in parallels but every time I boot into the live os or install I get
ACPI PCC FAILED
If I ...
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How to hide partition from pantheon files?
In ubuntu i could hide a partition by going into the disks application, but in pantheon i cant find tha app, so how would i go about hiding an ntfs partition in pantheon files? ubuntu writes something ...
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Pantheon files will not auto mount cdrom or dvdrom media. How do I do this via command line?
When I remote into my machine using ssh, I am unable to access any optical media because pantheon files has not mounted the media. Is there a command line utility (preferably other than editing fstab) ...
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Read data from an encrypted /home directory
I have changed my laptop's hard drive for a bigger one, and because the installation of elemmentary was corrupted somehow (didn't start the OS)
Now when I mount the hard drive as an external drive, I ...
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MTP device connecting problem in files
The files from my android device get detected only when there is an internet connection. If I am not connected to internet I get an error message: "Unable to mount folder. The server for this folder ...
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Can't mount Windows partition r/w anymore
After a recent crash (but recovery and correct reboot afterwards) of my Win8.1, Freya is no longer able to mount the NTFS partition. When I try that I get the error that Windows is in the suspended ...
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Is there a way to mount another partition on startup?
I have a secondary partition with a broken Windows installation on my hard drive. I no longer need Windows, but I still have some files that I need there.
The partition remained mounted when my ...
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How do I mount a network filesystem on boot?
I have a server I connect to using ssh in pantheon-files, how do I make the network file system remain mounted after reboot?
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Contract file to mount iso?
What would be the content of a .contract file in /usr/share/contractor for a menu entry like 'Mount iso'?
