Questions tagged [fstab]
The configuration file /etc/fstab contains the necessary information to automate the process of mounting partitions.
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GCSFuse keeps generating dummy files on mounted bucket that can't be deleted due to retention policy
I'm currently setting up a GCP storage bucket on my instance which will be used for backups. I have currently configured fstab to mount the bucket on startup using the following config.
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NFS Stale File Handle After NFS Server Reboots: Why Does This Happen and How Does Industry Handle This?
This problem has been driving me crazy.
I have an NFS server with NFS shares mounted on various clients. However, whenever I have to reboot the NFS server, I invariably end up with a bunch of "Stale ...
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Unable to mount via /etc/fstab
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Bringing up a new server, I have the following situation. I can mount the device at /dev/sda1 manually via this command:
mount /dev/sda1 /owncloud
But when I use the recommended approach (UUID)...
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Why /tmp is bound in /tmp ? How can I remove this bound
In Scientific Linux 6, a clone of RHEL6, I have the following mtab file:
/dev/sda2 / ext4 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/...
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How to map a UUID directly to both a device name (e.g. /dev/sda1) AND a mount point (e.g. /mnt/home2)?
I know how to map /etc/fstab to the mount point with the device name:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/home2 ext4 usrjquota=quota.user,jqfmt=vfsv0 0 0
This practice is however highly ...
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repair file system by edit the fstab file
is it possible to run xfs repair by re-edit the fstab file?
/dev/mapper/vg-linux_root / xfs defaults 0 0
UUID=7de1dc5c-b605-4a6f-bdf1-f1e869f6ffb9 /boot xfs ...
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How to move /var back to Root from a different filesystem
I need to move my /var (dev/sdc1) back to the / (dev/sda2) from a different file system. I've resized the / partition and want to move /var back to / partition and resize /dev/sdc1 filesystem to mount ...
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FSTAB CIFS kerberos
How can I force fstab to mount CIFS with machine account kerberos?
From logs it shows that cifs.upcall goes to:
cifs.upcall: get_cachename_from_process_env: cachename = FILE:/tmp/krb5cc
and not on /...
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Glusterfs: local .automount in fstab not working at restart
I'm using glusterfs Version 7 /debian 10 and i will try to automount my gluster volume at startup / rebooting.
Ive just tried to add this in my /etc/fstab:
127.0.0.1:/www /var/www glusterfs ...
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Unable to mount cifs share in fstab with spaces in share name
I'm running a Debian Squeeze system and trying to mount a windows share in /etc/fstab. I've got an existing cifs mount working, but it's a simple //xx.xx.xx.xx/sharename situation. This second one isn'...
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Run ZFS as non-root
I'm running Debian 10 in a VM (using KVM) and I want to use ZFS as a non-root user. Here is what I did.
I added this line to my sources.list file
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports ...
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ssh connection refused after editing fstab in Google cloud vm
I'm getting ssh: connect to host xx.xx.xx.xx port 22: Connection refused after updating fstab for mounting Google bucket. fstab entry that I have added is as follows,
bucket mount_point fuse rw,...
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Raid filesystem check or mount failed (after probable physical shock)
I was redirected here from askubuntu.
I work on a server where the operating system is installed on an SSD but data storage is on internal harddrives set up in a RAID system. Recently I have been ...
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Previously mountable GlusterFS volume now fails to mount with several errors
I've previously set up a couple of GlusterFS volumes (called cyclorana0 and cyclorana1) across two nodes (with IPs 10.0.2.4 (hostname alboguttata) and 10.0.2.5 (hostname verrucosa)) on my LAN. The ...
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How to preserve drive device paths for AWS EC2 instance between reboots
I rebooted a m5d.xlarge EC2 instance running Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (xenial) using shutdown -r.
Upon reboot, various drive mounts defined in /etc/fstab did not line up with the device assignments given ...
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Howto mount curlftps in fstab with custom netrc-file
The problem is, I have to mount two folders from one ftp(s) server with different user names (and passwords, of course). I found the option netrc-file, but don't know how to use it in fstab, I tried:
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XFS with No Barrier Mount option deprecated
I tried to perform SQL Server database restore with xfs filesystem and barrier=0 in Azure cloud environment. It performs restore of some 15GB data in around 8 minutes.
I heard this option is getting ...
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After a Debian 9.9 upgrade my server doesn't boot because of the disks in fstab
After a Debian 9.9 upgrade I restarted the server to load the new kernel image, Debian 4.9.168-1+deb9u5 (2019-08-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux, and it didn't boot anymore.
The server has 4 ssd disks, the main ...
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mount command fstab in linux
i have a command to manually mount windows shares into my linux system. Unfortunately the paths are not mounted when the system reboots. How can I add the path to the fstab table ?
mount -t cifs -o ...
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Mount merged partition at boot, fuse module missing
I have a merged partition from 3 different hard drives with mergerfs. I set it up following this tutorial.
To automate the mounting I added instructions in the fstab :
UUID=b3c8301c-5d12-4ab1-ab8c-...
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Swapfile mount (/etc/fstab): “swap swap” or “none swap”
There seems to be conflicting information on how to mount a swapfile.
swap swap:
none swap:
both:
Both ways work. What is the official recommendation and how does each way affect swapping?
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Cryptodevice on top of DRBD with CentOS7
I have created a replicated drbd device.
On top, I have create an encrypted volume with cryptsetup and finally formatted with ext4.
Additionally, I am using a keyfile to be able to automount the ...
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Continue boot with offline fstab disk (linux/systemd)
During boot, with pre-systemd versions of Ubuntu server (eg. 14.04), if a non-critical fstab disk was offline, the system would wait to mount the disk (30s iirc), timeout and continue booting.
Since ...
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mounted windows disk: incomplete directory listing
I have a series of Windows shared disks mounted on my Linux machine. I have lines like this in /etc/fstab:
//10.5.0.136/i /media/i cifs credentials=/home/trosendal/.smbcredentials,vers=2.0,iocharset=...
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Ubuntu won't mount through fstab after upgrade to Systemd
I have a data server and two VMs. The first VM, clone14, runs Ubuntu 14.04. The second VM, clone16, was cloned from clone14 and then upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04.
Both VMs have the exact same /etc/...
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Automatically mounting S3 bucket using s3fs on Amazon CentOS
I have tried all the answers provided in similar questions but none is helpful.
I installed S3 Fuse so that I can mount S3 bucket. After the installation, I performed the following the steps:
I ...
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Edit fstab on unmounted device
I tried to add swapfile to the root file system on AWS EC2 instance. Did I made a mistake during the edit of fstab?
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=4
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /...
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Ubuntu map CIFS / SMB share using active domain credentials without password file
Is there a way in Ubuntu 18.04 to map an SMB share when the users login without using a password file? The boxes I have are members of a Windows Active Directory domain and the users will use their ...
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Mounting a cifs share dir_mode and file_mode are being ignored
I have an Ubuntu Server that is trying to mount a Windows Server shared folder.
Firstly, what I'm trying to do here is mount the share as the person in the credentials file and all actions take place ...
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Centos 7 - fstab does not mount some partitions, but mount /dev/sd* does
i have a Virtual Machine with Centos 7, on which i want to mount some ext4 partitions. Physical disks are actually hard disks provided by vSphere. All disks are located on the same NAS - so the three ...
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Mounts happening on boot, but not defined in /etc/fstab
On every boot, my machine (CentOS 7) mounts all these:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 30G 2.6G 28G 9% /
devtmpfs 287M 0 287M 0% /dev
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Retry mount NFS share if failed
I have a NFS share that mounts from /etc/fstab, so that it mounts on boot. But if the NFS share isn't available on boot, how can I make it so that it retries until it can mount it?
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Read hostname from a secondary filesystem
I'm trying to customize a preinstalled Ubuntu image for VM instances. My idea was to add a secondary filesystem to /etc/fstab (let's call it /config) and then symlink all relevant config files to that ...
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cygwin: chroot jail - cannot run any command
I have installed Cygwin with Apache, PHP, Mercurial, MYSQL, OpenSSH, PYTHON
I have updated sshd_config to chroot jail
to access user-defined folders
example:
Match group sftp_users
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fstab configuration for esxi datastore-based hard drive
I've got the following drives on my server
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
loop0 7:0 0 86.6M 1 loop /snap/core/4571
loop1 7:1 0 86.6M 1 loop /snap/core/4486
sda 8:0 ...
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How to make initrd of Ubuntu 16.04 mount /home automatically in addition to /?
This is a follow-up to a former question about systemd, BTRFS, /home being an individual subvolume and the following restriction of systemd I would like to work around:
The file system where the ...
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Why can't systemd find service files within a BTRFS subvolume within a BTRFS root file system?
I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server using BTRFS and got the following setup according /etc/fstab:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass&...
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What is the failed dependency during cryptography setup of systemd?
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server in a VM with one unencrypted hard disk for / and an additional LUKS-encrypted one for some arbitrary data. The encrypted disk is opened and mounted with a password ...
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Debian 9 fstab two mount points (uuid) same destination
I have encrypted luks partition. Key file is located on USB flash drive. I also created copy of that flash drive to another flash. How I can add two mount points in /etc/fstab that points to same ...
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/etc/fstab doesn't show temp but temp is mounted. CentOS 7 on linode
In CentOS 7, I have been told to secure the /tmp folder with with noexec,nosuid in /etc/fstab
When I view the /etc/fstab, I can only see few lines without /tmp mounting option.
I have created a tmp ...
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in which cases it will be problematic to configure UUID in fstab
We are thinking about to change all Linux fstab configuration to work with UUID
instead the current configuration
Some of the disks are with non RAID and some of the disks are with RAID10
I searched ...
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broken boot order zfs boot drive after a zfs disk replace
My system was nice and configured then I had a failed zfs (raidz2) drive. I swapped that drive but then it wouldn't enroll. So when I rebooted the system wont boot until one of the unbeknownst array ...
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External HD, fstab
Okay, so I have this external (USB) HD that is sometimes (read: almost always) connected to my server. I want to mount the partitions on this HD to my own configured mount points, via fstab.
What is ...
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samba share in /etc/fstab is ignored during mount -a but manual mount works
It's one of these problems I'm running into every time that I set up a server :-(
I have an Ubuntu server 16.04 and would like to auto-mount a samba share.
In my /etc/fstab I have the entry:
//10....
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nfs mount failing to reconnect after reboot
Ok, this one is odd. I just rebooted my entire home network for the first time. Took a bit but got everything to come back up. I have a media vault nas, sharing a handful of drives on NFS/SMB, and ...
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Directory listing symbolic link in apace
Platform : Centos 7
Scenario : I have a drive "/mnt/ELEMENTERY-1TB" mounted with fstab
UUID=a6339f33-1c61-4c2c-a490-04c83ccfb4d6 /mnt/ELEMENTERY-1TB/ ext4 defaults,errors=remount-ro,context="...
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`ls` command hangs indefinitely in some directory in an azure File Storage share
I have an azure File Storage share mounted in a Ubuntu 16.04 VM following this how-to. Everything seems to work fine. So I run some process that produces a lot of data, e.g. 10k files for each run, ...
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Two external hard drive on same mounting point in fstab, but only one should be mounted
I have two external hard drives in the fstab file. They are pointing to the same mounting point. During the startup only one of this two drives should be mounted at the mounting point and only one of ...
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Cannot mount a drive as read-write Fedora 26
I just switched from a fedora 25 machine to a fedora 26, and for some reason, I cannot mount the same drives as read/write. This "d_drive" is a physical SSD connected via SATA. I'm able to mount USB ...
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NFSv4 client unable to mount export containing brackets or spaces but works on NFSv3
There is an issue with NFSv4 when you try to mount a path containing a space and or a bracket character. NFSv3 works fine using the path that uses a symbolic link to the actual folder and NFSv4 does ...
