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Automounting is the process where mounting and unmounting of certain filesystems is done automatically by a daemon.

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There is a headless machine, with Debian as its OS: $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 11 \n \l $ uname -a Linux mymachine 6.1.99 #33 SMP Tue Jan 21 11:32:39 CST 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux What I wish to ...
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I have a LUKS-encrypted partition (not the root partition, which by default is encrypted by default with ecryptfs, generally deprecated, so I'm told) and I'm just trying to get it to be mounted at ...
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My task is to have a custom mount point and for the mount itself to happen automatically. that is, the device is connected, a folder with its name is created in some place (/mnt/usb/{name}) and the ...
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I have OpenWRT installed on some of my routers and to add additional storage for settings as well as programs that might be installed on the router and maybe logs, OpenWRT recommends you plug storage ...
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We have two servers. Application sever A and NFS file server B. Server B is shared among multiple various applications and it's generic NFS storage host that we don't have access to and it's corporate ...
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I've been struggling to make sense of something, so would appreciate some help. I am mounting a remote NFS drive onto my Debian system with the following fstab entry which uses the systemd automounter,...
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I have set up on my laptop a systemd mount and automount unit to mount a NFS share on demand. Naturally, this works as long as I am in the same network as the NFS server. If I leave my home network, ...
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I'm on Automotive Grade Linux. My system has a partition /dev/sda15 which is mounted to /data. I want to change the mount attribute "noexec" permanently, but There is no directive for sda15 ...
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I am using fedora cinnamon and I need my PC to read DVDs. For some disks, the file manager can't mount them automatically. I know the problem isn't from the disks because I can read them by mount them ...
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I have a laptop without an internal hard drive. To get some use out of it, I'm considering putting the root partition on external media, over USB. I can't see any reason this wouldn't work, but I ...
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I looked into the default /etc/auto.master and I saw the following. # # Include central master map if it can be found using # nsswitch sources. # # Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as ...
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OS: Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon. My computer has 2 internal drives both formatted as ext4: 500 GB SSD 4 TB HDD Output of sudo blkid: /dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="7700-D60B" BLOCK_SIZE="512" ...
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Issue: An nfs server is down and it takes your computer down with it! Specifically it blocks booting. A less drastic example is you take your laptop to your friends and then it can't boot because it's ...
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I have the following requirements: If a particular USB stick is inserted, it should be automatically detected and mounted. The information where it must be mounted will be in /etc/fstab (of course). ...
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when installing RHEL-8.10 from rhel-8.10-x86_64-dvd.iso in the partition scheme I choose encrypt my data. And for all the partitions I have checked as encrypt such as /home and /var and / and however ...
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