Storage drive does not unmount when user logs out On Ubuntu 22.04 I have two users that share a storage drive (it’s also shared with Windows, therefore I need it to be formatted as NTFS and on a separate drive). Both Ubuntu users have the auto-mount option enabled on that drive but when one user …
Remove /dev mount point without unmount in Host Here is the unmount method for unmounting all previously mounted folders: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/61885/how-to-unmount-a-formerly-chrootd-filesystem I use the following command to mount the /sys and /dev to the chroot from the Ubuntu host: cd /path/to/chroot/ mount -t sysfs /sys sys mount -o bind /dev dev If I delete the /sys …
24.04 change to mount command Previously the following would mount a share that exists on a ubuntu 20.04 system: sudo mount -t cifs -o user=guest,password=,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm //fossa/den /media/fossa If given from a new 24.04 system, the command fails with error 22, invalid argument and, it is demanding a password for guest. What is wrong with my …
Mounting a Disk Image I’m trying to create a disk image and mount the partition for further work, but I’m encountering a frustrating error message: "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock." Here’s the steps I took and the output I received: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img status=progress bs=200M count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out …
Force reboot if `fstab` mount fails instead of going to emergency mode I have a fstab with read-only root-fs and also a rw /var mounted on a USB reader with a µSD in it. Sometimes at boot time system fails to mount /var. It looks like the system cannot find the partition on the µSD. My best guess is that the …
What is the difference between /mnt/boot and /boot I’m installing Arch Linux and going by the instructions I want to mount the EFI partition at /boot, however I see on the internet people using both /boot and /mnt/boot and I have no idea what the difference is, if any. Asked By: user107586 || Source If …
Ubuntu 22.04 on Raspberry Pi: /var/cache/fontconfig Gets Created Before /var Is Mounted I’m running Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish, ARM64) on a Raspberry Pi. After imaging the Pi’s SSD, I re-partitioned the drive and mirrored the contents of /var onto the new partition (verified), renamed the original /var to /var.old before making a fresh, empty /var …
Docker Relocate to external USB SSD Problem Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS Docker version 24.0.2 I am trying to relocate the /var/lib/docker directory to my USB SSD flash drive to save memory on the internal storage, however, I am having difficulty doing so. I have attempted to modify the docker service to set a different data-root, but …
Mounting Drives The last time I touched Unix of any flavor it was Solaris, so please forgive me. I’m am so very rusty. I decided to build a home lab and get back into things. I’ve built, destroyed, and rebuilt my Ubuntu server more times in the last week than I can count. But I …
Fresh installation of 20.04 makes three partitions – right? Now to get to the bottom of my problems mentioned in another thread, I decided to install 20.04 anew. In order to not produce problems from the start on, I let the installation program do as it wished and use the whole disc. It then left …
unable to mount external drive from cron (using udisksctl) GOAL I’d like to mount an external drive using cron for automatic backups, preferably with udisksctl. PROBLEM udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdXY works fine from the command line or shell script, but when I run it from cron (using my own cron table), it fails with the …
How do I rescue an encrypted LUKS partition after failed shrink I had an encrypted ext4 partition on a Samsung T7 1TB USB drive. It was LUKS (I believe this may be called a LUKS container?) The partition was 850GB. It had about 130GB in use. I also had an unencrypted 100GB NTFS partition and …
Linux mount and save changes to RAM (while not changing the underlying file system) I am looking for a way to discard any changes written to a filesystem. Currently, I am mounting a file system with mount -o ro. If programs write to it, an error will be raised. I would like to change the …
Files created by user in a mounted partition show root as owner I have a dual boot system (Windows 10/Archlinux) and I have created a NFTS partition which is mounted at startup via /etc/fstab so I can access it from both OS’es. The fstab file shows that the partition is mounted with read and write …
Systemd does not see external drive partition when running ExecStart command I am trying to run calibre-server at startup. Here is an example of the service content [Unit] Description=calibre Content server After=network.target [Service] Type=simple User=root Group=root ExecStart=/opt/calibre/calibre-server "/path-to-mounted-external-hdd-partition/Calibre Library" [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target When I check the status of the service: sudo systemctl status calibre-server.service I receive …
Cannot mout old NAS on Ubuntu 22.04 I have an old NAS, a Synology CS407, which I want to mount on my Ubuntu server running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. However, I cannot succeed in mounting it. I have tried mounting it with NFS and SMB/CIFS, but both don’t work. I would like to use SMB, as …
Host and fstab file messed up after try to change swap size I was trying to increase the swap size of my Ubuntu. I, naïve, followed the steps of this answer: Check the swap that is in use: sudo swapon -s If swap partition(s) are found: sudo swapoff -a sudo nano -Bw /etc/fstab Add # …
"Error Mounting dev/sda at /media/fjdpaco/USB Stick:Unkown error when mounting dev/sda" I have an Acer Aspire3 laptop, and I am trying to open up a Memorex 8GB USB stick from the Files application in Ubuntu. I Given that I have important data I don’t want to accidentally destroy I don’t want to touch anything without an …
Understanding the auto-allocated disk layout on OpenBSD I am attempting to install OpenBSD7.4 on an amd64 arch with a 1TB drive. The machine will run an X windows system and need plently of room to store files. I selected "whole disk GPT" at the prompt (though I’m unsure whether MBR might be the better option). …
How to remount a drive without root? I want to allow a user script to remount a drive as "ro" or "rw". By using the user option in the fstab, I can successfully mount and unmount the drive as a user but the -o remount,rw fails. Is it not possible for the user to use …
