A mountpoint is a physical location in the partition used as a root filesystem. Use this tag for any questions about mountpoints.
Questions tagged [mountpoint]
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Where are MTP mounted devices located in the filesystem?
I have an Android phone that connects with my computer via MTP. This works fine; I can see and transfer files with Nautilus. However, I often want to use the terminal to move large numbers of files, and I cannot seem to find the device anywhere in…
bessman
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What do I do when my root filesystem is full?
My / folder is reading as full and I can't update software or do anything.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong here.
$ df -h
Results:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 5.7G 5.4G 0 100% /
udev …
Jesse
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Why are the default permissions for /media/username root:root?
I have tweaked the permissions on /media/username from root:root to username:root [1]. I understand that a user-centric location allows user-centric permissions [2].
But why were the permissions for this folder root:root in the first place?
[1] So…
lofidevops
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What is /run/user/1000/gvfs/
I connected my action camera (GoPro Hero 5) to the computer running Ubuntu 16.10 LTS to download files. To my surprise, I did not see the camera's folder in /media/. Running find | grep DCIM from the root folder discovered a folder with the…
AlwaysLearning
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Get UUID of / filesystem from script
How can I get UUID of a volume that contains the / filesystem?
The best thing for that I've found to date is blkid -o list. But this output is human readable and hard to parse. Maybe there is a better way?
I need that to parameterize configuration…
Dmitriusan
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how to mount dvd-rw drive/create mount point
I just get ubuntu 12.10. So I am a newbie.
I have sata hard disc with partitions - sda 1 (swap) sda 2 (mount point /) and sda 3 (mount point /home).
Today I add another internal hard disc (not sata) which I plan to use only for data, and its mount…
user132378
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fstab automatically creates mount points
As mentioned here, "you must create the mount point before you mount the partition." But after adding the following lines in fstab and rebooting the system
/dev/sdxy /media/user/hdd_mount_point ext4 defaults 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/tmpfs_mount_point tmpfs…
Dante
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What mount point should I use for data/free space
I am installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a PC that has 2 hard drives (160 GB and 320 GB) These drives were set up with Ubuntu on the 160 and Vista on the 320 as dual boot. I am currently re-partitioning the drives to remove Vista and the old Ubuntu and…
Robert Fox
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How to design partitions for SSHD?
I'm going to install Linux on Lenovo B5400, which contains:
500GB Hybrid SSHD with a 8 GB SSD and 500 GB HDD
Designing partitions for my 2 Linux distros was quite easy before, when I had only HDD. I always had:
10GB for Linux distro (mounted as…
kurp
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What's the difference between USB, UUID, Disk identifier and Vendor ID?
I need a persistent, unique identifier of a USB drive that never changes, to make a mount point folder.
Can you explain the difference between Disk Identifier, Vendor ID and UUID?
Can you also advise how I should set this mount point.
#fdisk -l |…
Sally
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Mount /tmp and /home to separate hard drive
is it possible to mount the root file system '/' on one hard drive (where folders like /usr, /boot, etc will be stored) and mount /tmp and /home to another hard drive on the same partition?
Something like this:
HDD1:
/
/usr
/bin
/boot
…
arcyqwerty
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Where's my phone mounted to browse it from shell?
I have connected a smartphone and would like to copy some file onto it using midnight commander. I've found out that the mount point is mtp://[usb:002,004]/Card/ however when I try to run cd mtp://[usb:002,004]/Card/ I get No such file or directory.…
Tomasz Kapłoński
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Access denied error while mounting a shared folder?
I am a linux newbie and I have a very basic question. I have three machines -
machineA 10.108.24.132
machineB 10.108.24.133
machineC 10.108.24.134
and all those machines have Ubuntu 12.04 installed in it and I have root access to all…
SSH
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nautilus connect to server - can not reach filesystem root
Using Ubuntu-Raring I connect via 'Files/Connect-to-server':
ssh://root@myhost:mysshport/
connection works ok, but I am connected to '/root' on the target system and can not reach the filesystem root (I can not do a 'cd /' via the UI)
How can I…
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How to check if a cdrom is in the tray remotely (via ssh)?
I have a server running Ubuntu 10.04 (it's on the other side of the world and I haven't built up the wherewithal to upgrade it remotely yet) and I have been told that there is a CD in one of it's two CD drives. I want to rip an image of the cd and…
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