Questions tagged [mountpoint]

A mountpoint is a physical location in the partition used as a root filesystem. Use this tag for any questions about mountpoints.

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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…
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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 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev tmpfs 770M 1.1M 769M…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 "/"…
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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 |…
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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 /var HDD2:…
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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…
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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 those three…
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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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