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Unattended installation of Ubuntu from USB drive -- Not mounted correctly

I'm doing an unattended installation of Ubuntu-14.04-server with a USB drive on different type of servers (HP Proliant ML110, ML310, ML350). In some cases, the USB drive is incorrectly mounted on /media instead of /cdrom, making the installation…
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Where is linux automount's config?

I have a centos box, it has some NFS mounts. I'm trying to figure out these NFS filesystems get mounted. And I figured out if I rename /usr/sbin/automount to some else name, after reboot the box, those NFS will not be mount. So I can be sure that…
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nfs autofs automount of exported filesystems is empty on nfs server

I am having issues with empty nfs automounts on the nfs server itself. I'm running RHEL5.7 64bit exporting 4 directories as follows: /export/site/server13 *(fsid=0,rw,sync,crossmnt) /export/site/server13/u *(rw,sync) /export/site/server13/unix…
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Mount a network drive when windows starts up without being logged in

Current Scenario: I have a NAS Box, and a Windows 2003 Server that our recording software is on (Security Cameras). The software stores the data on the NAS box. Currently someone has to be logged in with valid credentials in order to keep the…
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Find out the type of an automounted device

I'm working on a system (Ubuntu Precise) with a mount defined in /etc/fstab as follows: /dev/vdb /mnt auto defaults,nobootwait,comment=cloudconfig 0 2 Originally I just wanted to find out if it's NFS (due to potential MySQL…
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automount stops working due to hanging mount.nfs processes that leave /etc/mtab~ lock file

I've got many automount entries in LDAP for mounting ~200 nodes between each other. Often, the automounter stops working. After debugging, I figured out that it can be fixed by running rm -f /etc/mtab~* restart autofs which makes me think, that…
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How to mount Windows share on boot using mount.cifs and autofs/automount?

I'm having some trouble mounting a network share using autofs. I have added the following line to /etc/auto.master: /mnt/mountpoint /etc/auto.servername I then created the file /etc/auto.servername with the following contents: server-ip…
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NFS client can mount, fails to automount

I have /etc/auto.master: /cpy/users /etc/auto.users --timeout=90 I have /etc/auto.users: * -fstype=nfs4,rw,proto=tcp,port=2049 server:/users/& On an "ordinary" CentOS 5 machine, these work splendidly. On my virtual machine which has been…
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Recommended NFS mount options for automount maps?

I am considering what NFS mounting options should be used in a large collection of automount maps being used over a large number of hosts (>500). Of note, there is a collection of machines, both Linux (RH, Suse) and UNIX (Sun, AIX, HP/UX). Also,…
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Unable to access files through autofs on first attempt, only afterwards

I'm having a rather strange issue with autofs in CentOS 5.1. Essentially I'm trying to access a file using automount, but the first time I try to access the file it isn't found. It's only on subsequent attempts that the mount becomes accessible…
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Unable to restart automount

I am trying to restart automount as it consumes a lot of CPU: Tasks: 2392 total, 7 running, 2352 sleeping, 25 stopped, 8 zombie Cpu(s): 9.3% us, 28.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 61.5% id, 0.2% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.2% si Mem: 15799928k total, 11029764k used, …
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Auto-mount USB drives in Ubunto 10.04?

I have a cron-scheduled backup task, that writes to a USB drive. (It's a SATA drive stuck in an external dock that is connected to my machine via USB.) This usually auto-mounts at /media/backups (since "backups" is the partition label for the…
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Automount nfs on redhat 7.2 not works

I have the following nfd share folder on my linux client ( redhat 7.2 ) master1:/nfs 41932800 6601728 35331072 16% /nfsshare we decided to use the service auto fs in case this share folder is unmounted we created the following service…
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Autofs is forgetting mount points

I have a set of mount points which I use autofs to access. They have been around for quite some time, and in systems I've inherited running CentOS6 admins before me have implemented cronjobs restarting autofs conditionally if certain mountpoints are…
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Automount LDAP home directories on custom directory

Im trying to automount home directories which exported from an IPA server to a client.The setup is the following one : auto.master: /home/ldap /etc/ldap.file ldap.file : * -rw,sync server:/home/ldap/& This setup apparently works , but if I…
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