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Automounting is the process where mounting and unmounting of certain filesystems is done automatically by a daemon.

Automounting is a service that's typically done my a daemon. Software and/or daemons that provide automounting as a service are classified as automounters.

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Automounting plugged devices in linux

Auto-mounting seems to be a bit of a messy thing in linux. The options to automount ranges from autofs, udev, hal or even filemanagers. What is the best-practice method to enable automounting on devices? Is there one shinning way that cuts out all…
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How do I auto-mount internal HDD partitions to dynamic mount points?

I would like to auto-mount some partitions the way USB drives and external HDDs are currently mounted on my system. I understand that to auto-mount internal HDDs at startup, I need to place it in the /etc/fstab and map its mount point, etc. But I…
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HDD unique identifier

I would like to automount some hdd on logon, how can I check if connected HDD (via USB) is exactly that HDD which I am thinking of, and that there were no partition changes on it. Above information I would use to identify my encrypted HDD, or maybe…
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mount all volumes with udisks2 without systemd

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USB hard drive doesn't auto mount

I just bought a Raspberry Pi and want to start using it as a NAS.  I'm fairly new to this, but I've gotten this far. I've got an external hard drive (freshly formatted NTFS) connected with a USB cable to my Raspberry Pi and am connected through SSH…
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How to reserve a frequently used mount point?

I have a drive that I'd like to always automount at a convenient path, say /mnt/my_drive. However, how do I know some other program won't try to use this mountpoint in the future, either preventing my drive from mounting (and breaking programs that…
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Error in findmnt

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How Do I Automate A Mount On Bootup

I have a RAID array which I have to manually mount every time my computer has rebooted. Is there a way to automate this? Every time my PC starts I type this. sudo mount /dev/md0 /mnt/raiddrives I just want Debian to do this automatically.
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Is there a place / way to automatically mount an NFS share at boot that is not fstab?

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Gallium OS cannot mount an sd card

I'm working on an HP Chromebook kip When I first installed the sd card, it read as mounted, but I couldn't transfer files to it. In trying to fix that problem, I managed to unmount it (or so I thought) and that's where I found disappointment. The…
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How to prevent automount (autofs) changing protection of indirect map mountpoint

How do I prevent autofs (automount) from changing the protection of its owned mountpoint. # chmod 2771 /cust # ls -ld /cust drwxrws--x. 2 root root 4096 Mar 13 14:43 /cust # systemctl start autofs # ls -ld /cust drwxr-xr-x 332 root root 0 Mar 14…
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