Trying to mount usbfs in fstab (SOLVED)

I need usbfs in order to use usb in parallels or vmware.
I can mount usbfs with following command:
# mount -t usbfs /proc/bus/usb
However, if I add this to the fstab:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs default 0 0
"/proc/bus/usb" does not get mounted.
Did I miss something?
Gary

Now there's a coincidence. The same issue has just come up on the mailing list as well - and brain0 has provided the solution.

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[SOLVED]trying to mount disk so all users can read write

I'm trying to mount my hard drive to /mnt/2TB automatically at startup. My /etc/fstab looks like this...
/dev/sda2 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/2TB ntfs auto,exec,rw,users,uid=1000 0 0
ls / shows...
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Jun 30 20:09 mnt
ls /mnt shows...
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Jun 20 21:21 2TB
When I restart the disk mounts fine but I cannot write anything to disk. I want to mount this disk so that anyone can read, write, and execute on it. I specified these options in my fstab. What options am I missing?
EDIT:
I figured it out. I had to install ntfs-3g. Once I did that I changed my fstab to this...
/dev/sda2 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/2TB ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000 0 0
Then I changed /mnt permissions to ...
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 30 20:09 mnt
Then I changed /mnt/2TB permissions to...
drwxrwxrwx 1 necbot users 4096 Jun 20 21:21 2TB
Works great!
Last edited by necbot (2014-07-02 00:07:43)

I ran across this in the ntfs-3g manual which might be of some interest. It appears that adding "permissions" to the mount options for ntfs-3g might accomplish roughly what you want, but you may have to perform some work to get it operational. Likewise, the Windows ACL may interfere and a quick glance seems to me to suggest that you might have to tweak things from Windows to get the permissions working well.
I personally have all of my Windows partitions mounted under /windows, but I can see why that isn't an ideal solution if you're dabbling in Arch or have things you want to more easily share in one direction.
Hope this helps somewhat even though you've already marked the topic as solved.

[SOLVED] i'm trying to mount an iso

hi,
im trying to mount a cd image, but am getting the following error,
[root@arch image]# mount -t iso9660 -o loop image.iso cd1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
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sdd: rw=0, want=3934207, limit=3934147
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Maybe you should also specify the mount point as an absolute path ( I mean just cd1 is not that clear, not that the system get confused with symlinks in /dev? )
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Error mounting an encrypted volume [solved]

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Enter passphrase for /dev/sda2:
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base-root (253, 3)
md2crypt (253, 0)
base-usr (253, 2)
base-var (253, 1)
data (253, 5)
base-home (253, 4)
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Name: data
State: ACTIVE
Read Ahead: 256
Tables present: LIVE
Open count: 0
Event number: 0
Major, minor: 253, 5
Number of targets: 1
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mount: /dev/sda2 already mounted or /mnt/data busy
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[root@kaminari ~]# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 data
Enter passphrase for /dev/sda2:
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mount: /dev/sda2 already mounted or /mnt/data busy
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base-root (253, 3)
md2crypt (253, 0)
base-usr (253, 2)
base-var (253, 1)
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base-home (253, 4)
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External HDD won't mount at boot. [Solved]

Edit:
I've noticed that this is an issue regarding my NTFS partition being on an external drive. Please check post #8 by me to get further details.
Hello guys, I'm having some problems getting my external NTFS HDD to mount automatically at boot. I have installed HAL and NTFS-3G, but I'm still getting problems. Mounting once the computer has finished booting is no problem using the simple mount command (sudo mount /media/pebble). I see no reason why this should be having problems mounting at boot with my fstab entry, but no errors occur when mounting manually.
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Last edited by ryeguy146 (2009-11-05 10:04:32)

I just noticed something, I don't think that this is an issue with the partition being NTFS, but rather with it being on an external hard drive (/dev/sdc). I say this because I just rebooted and noticed another NTFS partition that I have in my fstab is mounting (/dev/sda5). It's an internal HDD, and I didn't notice that it mounted up because I rarely use it. But there it is.
I suppose that I should define /dev/sdc. It is a Western Digital External HDD running off of a USB 2.0 cable. I don't know why this makes a difference, but it apparently does. Both entries in the fstab are identical for their respective devices and mount points.
Now that we have that figured out, I think that I'll change the title of the thread. So any ideas on how to solve this one?

Mount points in fstab

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I have since read in mumerous places that there is this problem, but it can be avoided and the solution I have seen is to instead use the octal \040. Aha I thought, this looks promising, but no, there is still a problem with the mount point name.
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[Triaged] System tries to mount iPod firmware partition

Hi. I switched from hal-easy back to hal today, and it's started doing something weird.
It's trying to mount my iPod's firmware partition now. It's the first partition, and doesn't have a file system on it. So before mounting the iPod's real partition, I get an error dialog about how it failed to mount that first partition, and then proceeds to mount the second one. Icons for both partitions are visible on the desktop, and in thunar. I'm using xfce 4.6, and exo-mountopt from AUR.
It didn't behave this way before switching to hal-easy, and while I was using hal-easy. What could be going on here? How can I fix it?
Last edited by TiZ (2009-09-23 19:35:37)

I found a way to work around this problem.
Create /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules, or if you already have it, add this:
# Ignore iPod's first partition
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb" ATTRS{product}=="Rockbox media player" KERNEL=="sd?1" OPTIONS+="ignore_device last_rule"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb" ATTRS{product}=="iPod" KERNEL=="sd?1" OPTIONS+="ignore_device last_rule"
This covers iPods with both Apple OS and Rockbox. After making it, the icon for the system partition will still be on the desktop. Just log out and log back in and it will disappear.
And if you get nitpicky about the volume label being all-caps like I do, you can make /etc/hal/fdi/policy/05-labels.fdi and then restart hal:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="volume.label" string="TIZPOD">
<merge key="volume.label" type="string">TiZPod</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Unfortunately, these are all only work-arounds for behavior that was not exhibited before... as for when it changed, I can't remember for the life of me. I'd rather not have to use work-arounds, but they're working. I've marked the thread as "triaged" instead of "solved" because the problem's not fixed, just worked around.
Now I'd like to figure out how to get my iPod icon back instead of the boring hard drive icon when I use Rockbox USB, but I'm sure I can just google around for that.
Last edited by TiZ (2009-09-23 19:38:39)

Not mounting HDD from fstab

Hi!
Until last week my external HDD was mounted automatically during the boot but now it's not.
I haven't modified anything related to the fstab.
This is what the fstab file contains:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda5 / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home ext4 defaults,user_xattr 0 2
/dev/sdc1 /media/HDD ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
# mount point for Acer A500
mtpfs /media/a500 fuse user,noauto,allow_other 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sc1 is the partition I want to mount during the boot:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00080fa8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 976768064 488384001 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 126 52436159 26218017 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 52436223 54540674 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 54540738 976768064 461113663+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000170586112 bytes, 1953458176 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00073856
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 2048 1953458175 976728064 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Any idea of what could be happening?

Lone_Wolf wrote:
sounds like sometimes the drive is not ready yet when the system tries to mount it.
Also you're fstab is not listing anything with dev/sdb .
please post the output of
#fdisk -l
so we can see what drives are present on your system.
Is sdc an external or internal harddrive ?
if an external drive how is it connected ( usb, eSata, firewire, bluetooth, network ) ?
I've posted that output before:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00080fa8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 976768064 488384001 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 126 52436159 26218017 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 52436223 54540674 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 54540738 976768064 461113663+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000170586112 bytes, 1953458176 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00073856
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 2048 1953458175 976728064 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Oh sorry! It's true, I forgot that info.
It's an external HDD. Exactly a WD My Book Essential of 1TB connected by USB

Trying to mount external HDD, problems arise

Been trying to mount my external HD but it's not playing ball. Firstly, I can't work out what my setup is naming it in /dev, partly because I'm getting inconsistent readings of available space on my internal HD.
If I run
df
when the external HD isn't plugged in, I get the following output:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 7662396 2662828 4615216 37% /
/dev 1024816 0 1024816 0% /dev
run 1027740 204 1027536 1% /run
/dev/sda3 7662396 2662828 4615216 37% /
shm 1027740 0 1027740 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1027740 8 1027732 1% /tmp
/dev/sda1 99590 17903 76468 19% /boot
/dev/sda4 152576072 2634200 142302968 2% /home
I figured that if I plug it in and run the command again, something new should pop up and I can thus figure out what's where. However, the above reading doesn't even make sense.
Firstly, there's sda1, 2 & 3. I only have two partitions on my hard drive (one for /, one for /home). I also have a swap. Yet reading the available spaces, there's four different places (going on size); 1027740, 99590, 152576072 & 7662396.
My internal hard drive is only about 160 gig.
If I open thunar and view the properties for /, I get the following:
Size: 106764 items, totalling 128.0 TB
Free Space: 4.4 GB
From memory, the partition allocation for / was 10 gig, so the free space reading is presumably correct, but the 128 TB reading is bizarre. My external hard drive is 1TB, so it can't be that it's adding together / & the ex. HDD to get that estimate (if it is, it's worse at maths than I am); plus it gives the same estimate regardless of whether or not the ex. HDD is attached to my PC.
If I run:
lsusb
with my external HDD attached, it registers just fine (OK, it gets the size wrong, but it's better than nothing)
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1058:1021 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elements 2TB
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Throne777 wrote:
debdj wrote:
Ohhh, pmount worked a treat ^ ^
Any way to get it mount it automatically when I log in?
mm..I guess you can put it in your ~/.xinitrc file
but put the line before the DE/WM invocation line.
so, if you use say, use lxde and have a line like
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startlxde
in your .xinitrc,
put the 'pmount device' line before that.
Edit. if u want to put it in ~/.bashrc, you'll have to start a bash terminal at least once after you log in to get it mounted.
Hmm, pmount isn't working as well as I thought.
It won't let me transfer files from my hard drive to the external; says it isn't permitted. If I open thunar as root and try to change the groups read/write permissions it says the operation isn't supported (though I myself have read/write access apparently :s).
Edit: Typo
pmount is just a wrapper, it calls the standard mount program to actually do the work, without the need to have an entry in fstab. Let's first make sure that you can mount and use the drive with the standard old-fashioned mount. When we get that to work, switching should be just a matter of using correct pmount options or doing some minor tweaks.
From what you linked, I assume you are using ext filesystem, which should make things a lot easier. If you're using something else, you need to let us know.
First things first, lets start from the beginning. Umount the drive and set permissions on the empty directory you're mounting it into back to root (or just remove it and recreate it as root). This is not essential, just doing that so we know the current state of things.
Second, mount the drive with simple mount /dev/sdx /mnt/mountpoint Obviously you need to change the device and mountpoint to whatever's appropriate. This *should* work. Logged in as root, try to create a directory inside, and for example copy something into this new directory, to make 100% sure that the drive is correctly mounted. If you get past this point and everything works, then this all is most likely just a case of botched permissions. You can't write into it as a user yet, but we now know that it can be correctly mounted.
Third, find out your user uid, and your primary group gid. Simply type 'id' into terminal logged in as regular user you want to mount the drive with, if it's the only user you created shortly after system installation, then most likely your uid will be 1000 and gid of users group will be 100. Now umount the drive, and re-mount it with running as root mount -o uid=1000,gid=100 /dev/sdx /mnt/mountpoint Again, change everything as appropriate. You now should be able to write new files and directories onto your drive as your normal user. You still may not be able to edit files already stored in if permissions were set wrong, but that can be changed, as we discussed before.
If this all works, then you can use your drive without any problems, and one line in your fstab will mean that you can mount the drive as user without even needing pmount. Please verify everything works first, if it does we can help you with that as well if you need it. And sorry if I'm being too thorough, just trying to avoid any mistakes
edit: to avoid any confusion, this is more or less a test. When mounting ext partitions you shouldn't have to set things like uid, gid or umask. Those options are primarily meant for filesystems which don't use this kind of permission setting, like vfat or ntfs. But it should move us a little bit further.
Last edited by meph (2012-03-31 16:45:25)

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I am running Solaris 10 x86 U7. It is actually a VMWare guest (ESX4) on a Sun X4170 server- although I do not believe that that is relevant. I have a Sun 2510 iSCSI SAN appliance. I have an iSCSI volume with a ZFS Pool that is mounted on the server. All was fine until yesterday when I installed the following patches:
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I had installed the patches in run level 1 , then switched to run level S to allow the patch install to finish.
Now, when I restart the zfs volume on the san is marked as off line. the /var/adm/messages shows the following
Nov 7 00:26:30 hostnameiscsi: [ID 114404 kern.notice] NOTICE: iscsi discovery failure - SendTargets (ip.ad.dr.ess)
I can mount the SAN ZFS pool with
#zpool clear ZFSPOOL1
#zfs mount -a
For iscsi device discovery, I am using send targets (not static or iSNS.) I am not using CHAP authentication.
It seems to be me this may merely be a timing in services and not fundamentally an iscsi issue. Can I tell the OS to wait for a minute after starting iscsi service before continuing with zfs mount and autofs shares? Can I tell the OS to delay mounting non OS zfs pools?
Thanks

Here is what I tried. Installed Batchmod and Xupport on each of internal system disk, backup internal system disk and external system disk. Batchmod could not find the folders automount or Network.
Booting from external disk, I made hidden files visible using Xupport, then deleted automount > Servers, automount > Static on internal disk and backup disk. The folder Network had no files or folder named "Server". Booting from internal disk, the desktop tried to mount server volumes. Examining the internal disk automount folder showed aliases for "Servers" and "static". Get Info said they pointed to originals "Servers" and "static" in folder /automount but these items do not appear in the Finder.
Sometimes icons, not aliases, for "Network", "Servers", and "static" appear on all three desktops on login. Trying to eject these icons by dragging to Trash or highlighting and clicking File > Eject has no effect. Examining Users > Username > Desktop does not show these items. Sometimes ".DS_Store" appears on desktop and in folder Users > Username > Desktop.
Next I deleted user accounts so that all system disks are single user. Booted up on External disk and deleted automount > Servers, automount > Static on internal disk and internal backup disk or their aliases, whichever appeared in Finder. Booting up on internal disk results in... desktop trying to mount server volumes.
Will try an archive and install on internal disk.

Prevent Lion from automatically trying to mount Filevault 2 encrypted volume at startup?

Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I need two separate partitions, one encrypted with Filevault 2 as a primary working partition, and a second token partition as a "decoy" of sorts, containing a pretty stock install and set as the default boot volume with automatic Guest account log on. In other words, you turn on the computer and it boots to a guaranteed sterile clean desktop. An unsophisticated snoop thinks that's all there is. A more-sophisticated snoop may notice that there's a second (encrypted) volume, but can't access anything without the password.
So I did a clean install of Lion, filling the entire SSD, and then used Disk Utility to shrink the main partition and create a 14 GB secondary partition. I then encrypted the main partition with Filevault 2 from within that logon. Then I rebooted from the clean install USB drive and installed a second instance of Lion on the secondary partition, set up the Guest account, and then set it for auto log on.
So far so good, however, every time I boot into what is supposed to be—to the casual observer anyway—the "decoy" OS, it helpfully throws up a big dialog box stating "Enter a password to unlock the disk '<Your Super-Secret Volume Name Here>'." which I then have to cancel. This is hardly helpful in disguising the fact that there is another partition on the SSD.
I've looked all over Finder's preferences and the System Preferences for a way to make this stop, but I can't seem to figure it out. Anybody know how to keep Lion from helpfully trying to mount encrypted volumes when it loads?
Thanks!

FYI, similar discusion here: http://discussions.apple.com/message/15744942
This is more of a workaround than a solution, but I ended up installing Snow Leopard to the "decoy" partition. It has no idea what to do with the encrypted partition, so it doesn't ask. Good enough for now I guess, but it would be nice if Apple made this configurable.

Readonly filesystem mount options in fstab

I am noticed when I try to use
defaults,noatime,data=writeback,nouser_xattr
as mount options in fstab for my ext4 os partition, it seems to be mounted as readonly, it works for my data partition tho so far. Why is that? I got that from a blog article somewhere on optimizing ext partitions

Um, the "defaults" option includes "rw".
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fs … efinitions
You NEED "ro" on the APPEND line in syslinux.conf (here's why), while GRUB2 adds it automatically when you re-generate the .cfg.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … sic_Config
Last edited by DSpider (2012-08-06 14:22:42)

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