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How to hide partition from pantheon files?
Since you are already familiar with Disks and elementary OS is based on Ubuntu, why not use this application again?
Just open Software Center, search for Disks and install it.
start Disks
select the ...
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Load ZFS Partition under Devices
I have finally found an answer, thanks to the suggestion of Jeremy Wooten and some official ZFS documentation.
After a lot of trials and errors, here are the steps to undertake.
Change the ZFS ...
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Load ZFS Partition under Devices
I do not have experience of zfs RAID drives but if the underlying system can handle it and it is mountable when you boot/log in then a suitable entry in /etc/fstab should allow it to appear as a ...
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External HDD doesn't appear in Files
Unlike other file managers, Pantheon Files doesn't auto-mount external drives. There is an open bug for adding this feature.
If you'd like USB drives to auto-mount, you can install a file manager ...
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Mounting internal drive to be shared between users
Try method described here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/351991/mounting-disk-drives-among-different-users. It worked OK for me. Note however that the last command given should be sudo chgrp <...
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How do I access the photos on my SD card on elementary OS?
All connected media (CD, flash disk, SD) should automatically appear in this section in Files:
Try to be patient, it can theoretically take somewhere around a minute if your computer has a bad day 😉
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How to hide partition from pantheon files?
Method 1:(tried)
You can use GParted tool in elementary to achieve what you want.
This is not provided by default. To install it type this in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install gparted
Steps ...
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This Folder Does Not Belong to You
Open Pantheon files as an administrator. Then change the owner of the /media/magnus folder to the correct user. Now your user should have full access to mounted media.
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how to automatically run a script as root to mount a network share
You want to run a script that does not need user interaction so there is absolutely no problem that it does not ask for the root password.
Actually the file /etc/rc.local is run with root user ...
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Pantheon files will not auto mount cdrom or dvdrom media. How do I do this via command line?
I'ts pretty simple to do
sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom && sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
This will first create the folder /mnt/cdrom (mkdir = make directory) and then mount the cdrom (/dev/cdrom)...
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Read data from an encrypted /home directory
Is there any way to "break" the encryption of that folder?
Yes, there is. This post here seems similar to yours.
You should also read the official Ubuntu Documentation about Encrypted /home folder, ...
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How to mount a Mojave/HighSierra APFS partition as read only in elementary OS?
Plan
There's a
free tool to mount APFS drive in linux: apfs-fuse https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse for Linux
installation process
prerequisites (taken from this walkthrough)
compiling
install ...
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How to change usb mount rules?
Files uses GLib functions for mounting and they do not provide any MountFlags to influence this. Maybe we could use the Linux.mount function, which does allow control over such options.
I suggest ...
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Can't mount Windows 10 Partition on Loki
From your post I'm not sure if you did this but give it a try anyway:
Boot into windows, make sure you can access that drive from Windows. Then press restart on the windows menu. It's important that ...
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How do I find the device name assigned to USB thumb drive?
Sav,
I too am a fellow Macintosh / elementary OS (Juno) user. Other than using a Patriot Memory USB drive (which mounts consistently automatically) I may have one other suggestion for you.
GNOME ...
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Loki not showing files from iPhone iOS 11.2.1
unfortunately there's no way to mount iOS devices on Linux anymore for some time. At least not any that I'm aware of. I just use icloud/apple photos to access my images.
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Unable to mount or read SD card
I would keep SD cards fat32 format. You can install gparted and format it. unmount it first than format the SD card. I do not know what you would gain from ntfs on a SD card.
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Load ZFS Partition under Devices
No matter the filesystem type, so long as it is mounted under /media/user/SomeDirectory, it appears to show up under "Devices" for me at least...
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Will the developers add the option to automount external media & devices?
There's an open bug for this feature, so it is on the developers' radar. (See also this related bug.) In the meantime, you could install a file manager that offers auto-mounting, such as Nautilus.
If ...
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Will the developers add the option to automount external media & devices?
I'm not a developer, so I can't answer your specific question. However it is easy to get automount. There are several ways to do it the easiest is to install usbmount
sudo apt-get install usbmount
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Messed up Mount Options
Hopefully you have a backup of your /etc/fstab files. Anyway, you should have at least one line in your /etc/fstab for your root file system:
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=239cd0e6-...
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Cannot login due to elementary OS thanks to Veracrypt and a possibly invalid volume
You can attempt to diagnose and fix the issue from another "virtual terminal".
Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to drop to TTY1.
Enter you username, press Enter, then your password, then Enter to log in.
Type cat ....
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