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Mount Google Drive in Linux?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

Now that Google Drive is available, how do we mount it to a Linux filesystem? Similar solutions exist for Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags cloud, filesystems, google-drive, mount Leave a comment

Mount device with r/w access to specific user

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

How can I mount some device with read-write access for a given user?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags authorization, filesystems, mount, permissions Leave a comment

How to allow non-superusers to mount any filesystem?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

Is it possible to allow some particular users (e.g. members of a group) to mount any filesystem without superuser privileges on Linux?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags linux, mount, not-root-user Leave a comment

can not use mount.cifs: mount error(2): No such file or directory

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

The command mount.cifs is found not being able to run in a gentoo system with systemd

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags mount Leave a comment

Why is “nodev” in /etc/fstab so important? How can character devices be used for hacking?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I am learning about linux security and struggling to understand why a USB stick with a character device on it is potentially dangerous.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags devices, fstab, mount, security Leave a comment

Permanent network drive mount in fstab not working (due to network not being online whilst attempting to mount)

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a network drive hosted on a Windows10 Machine, it mounts fine to my CentOS7 machine through the command:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags centos, fstab, mount Leave a comment

Showing only “interesting” mount points / filtering non interesting types

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I used mount to show mounted drives, I don’t want to see the not so interesting ones (i.e. non-physical). So I used to have a script mnt that did:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags filesystems, linux, mount Leave a comment

How to set default auto mount options for removable media?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I have quite a bit of removable media (flash drives, external hard drives, etc) that I want to adjust auto mount options for. How does one do this? Is there something similar to /etc/fstab?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags automounting, mount, removable-storage Leave a comment

Why does fstab use UUID instead of the actual file system name?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

For example, this is the first line of my /etc/fstab:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags disk-usage, filesystems, fstab, mount Leave a comment

How to enable unix file permissions on samba share with smb 2.0+

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I am trying to set permissions on a Samba share mounted with vers=3.0, but it does not work (with vers=2.1 or vers=2.0 also issue is present).

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags cifs, mount, samba, smb Leave a comment
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