Rookie questions about FSTAB and external drives
Server has two external HDs connected via USB (one is a USB-USB connection, the other is a USB-SATA connection if that matters). They are permanent mounts into their respective /mnt directories via an...
View ArticleHow to make partitions mount at startup?
How do you make HDDs and partitions mount at startup on Ubuntu?I always keep my media and data files on separate partitions - one 2tb HDD and a 400 odd gig partition. I have been trying to swap the...
View ArticleCLI mounting vs. GUI mounting
On Ubuntu 12.10, when I want to mount a hard drive, I can just click on the unmounted drive and everything works fine (by mounting to /media/username/partitionlabel).Basically, I would like to do...
View ArticleHow can I prevent Ubuntu from mounting particular partitions/devices?
I would like to stop Ubuntu from mounting my other (Windows) partitions automatically since I do not need it very often, I would like not to automount "System reserved" partition for Windows. There is...
View ArticleUnwanted Auto-mounting
I have Ubuntu set to auto mount two of my drives, which it successfully does every time I boot the system.However, sometimes shortly after I boot my system Ubuntu will start to mount the other five...
View Articleautofs mounts not disconnecting after inactive
I have autofs installed on ubuntu clients that are connecting to the central NFS server for the users /home directories. It works great when mounting the directories on login, but the mounts never seem...
View ArticleSamba shares won't automount on boot from fstab
I have FSAT setup to mount a CIFs share, but on boot up the share never gets mounted. However, if I run mount -a after boot up, it mounts everything just fine.Here's what my fstab looks like. Ignore...
View ArticleUnmounted drive spins up on shutdown
A drive that's unmounted and is (seemingly) in read-only + no automount mode briefly spins up before shutdown. The drive contains another OS. I've tried setting it's state (noauto, ro) using...
View ArticleHow to automount removable usb drives?
When I plug in a flash drive in my PC (Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS), it does not automount. I have to open the Disks Tool and mount the drive manually. The automount setting is enabled:$ gsettings...
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How to fix sync with Synology NAS; it thinks my mounted drive is a network drive
I have an ssd in my laptop. It's set to automount on boot. For some reason when I'm trying to setup my synology NAS to sync with it I'm getting this message.I have a similar setup on my desktop with...
View ArticleFor some reason I can't seem to access my shared folder created on ubuntu...
I've created a shared folder on my ubuntu virtualbox to share files with my windows 10 host system. But I when I click the shared folder, it says the locations could not be displayed? I don't have the...
View ArticleUpstart to automount USB in Ubuntu Server 20.04
I would like to have my home Ubuntu server automount USB devices.Currently, I mannually writesudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/libraryHowever, I tried to write an Upstart script, start-library.conf in...
View ArticleNautilus does not mount usb storage automatically
devices are recognized and can be mounted using mount command (see Ubuntu 12.04 stopped suddenly to recognize all usb storage.) but are not automatically mounted.using Ubuntu 12.04 on dell Lattitude...
View ArticleHow to automount external USB disks when system wakes up?
I have a Thinkpad running 21.10 connected to a Thinkpad dock that has external USB disk drives connected to it. When I'm done using the laptop, I unmount the disks, disconnect the dock and let the...
View ArticleAutomounting Not Working
I've been looking to get my drives to automount on boot up and for some reason they're not, I've got my Linux machine running "Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS" I'm using the GUI version since I'm still really just...
View ArticleError mounting SD card when returning from suspend
I have a 128 GB SD card that I use for permanent storage in my Lenovo Thinkpad X1. I've mounted it in /etc/fstab with this line:UUID=37733366-e936-41df-983a-f084352b3a5b /home/kristian/sd128gb auto...
View Articlelvremove snapshot met "Logical volume *** in use"
I taked a lvm2 snapshot of my root lv a few month ago, now when I remove it with lvremove, but I get "Logical volume svg/0902_extended in use".I never mounted it, and I now confirmed it again with...
View ArticleWhat’s the recommended way of mounting with rclone in on Ubuntu Desktop
I want to configure an encrypted rclone mount on a Linux desktop system for a backup solution (probably PikaBackup installed via Flatpak) that stores on a cloud storage.The storage could be mounted on...
View ArticleFSTAB automount fail
Hardware: RPI4 + Radxa Quad Sata hatVersion: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-1050-raspi aarch64)GPT partition table with single ext4 partition / diskI testing it from throught ssh!After I create...
View ArticleWhere are the options for automounted USB drives or how is automounting done...
In Ubuntu 20.04 (as in previous versions), external USB drives are automatically mounted when they are plugged in, and an icon for each partition appears in the Dock.How is that working? Which services...
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