Using Arch Linux / XFCE, I frequently have problems with USB drives that are not properly mounted. Sometimes they automatically show up in Thunar and I can mount them with one click. However, at other times (it’s about fifty/fifty) the drive is just not recognized. I have had this problem with USB External Hard Drives, USB Memory Sticks, and cameras. If the external drive is not recognized, this is the situation:
I have following line in /etc/fstab:
I am new at scripting … I can do very basic stuff, but now I need a hand.
I am looking for a quick way to find the mount point of the file system containing a given FILE. Is there anything simpler or more direct than my solution below?
I have been wondering how this is possible (i.e. how this works internally). When you want to mount a directory you have to be root.
For a user process, I want to mount a directory in other location but in user space without root privilieges. Something like mount –bind /origin /dest, but with a vfs wrapper. Like a usermode fine-tuned chroot.
I’ve been trying to install archlinux on xps one.
the screen doesn’t work because it has intel g45/g43 express chipset.
I had to use nomodeset option as mentioned in the installation guide.
Arch somewhat booted but i get an error:
How to mount ext3, ext4 partition sitting on “Fixed-Size VDI” VirtualBox HardDisk ?
Sometimes I unplug my usb drive only to find out files were not written to it.
I’ve got a samba share hosted on a Windows 10 PC and I have mounted it via a script that is set to automatically run on startup (my fstab wasn’t working right) and the script looks like this: sudo mount -t cifs //ipaddress/sharedfoldername /mount/location –verbose -o credentials=/credentials/file/location When I access the mount location folder before … Read more