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The configuration file /etc/fstab contains the necessary information to automate the process of mounting partitions.

The configuration file /etc/fstab contains the necessary information to automate the process of mounting partitions. In a nutshell, mounting is the process where a raw (physical) partition is prepared for access and assigned a location on the file system tree (or mount point).

* In general fstab is used for internal devices, CD/DVD devices, and network shares (samba/nfs/sshfs). Removable devices such as flash drives *can* be added to fstab, but are typically mounted by gnome-volume-manager and are beyond the scope of this document.
* Options for mount and fstab are similar.
* Partitions listed in fstab can be configured to automatically mount during the boot process.
* If a device/partition is not listed in fstab ONLY ROOT may mount the device/partition.
* Users may mount a device/partition if the device is in fstab with the proper option

SOURCE: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

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Unable to mount cifs in redhat 6

I am relatively new to Linux, and I am trying to mount a CIFS filesystem from an openfiler instance I have on my network in Red Hat. The openfiler instance is authenticating using AD. I am able to connect using samba: smbclient…
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NFS over wifi very slow

I have a NFS server hooked up to a client over a wireless network (n-router, b/g-client). I have terribly slow transfer rates of around 1.00 to 1.50 MB/s. I cannot seem to figure out how to improve this. I have played around with rsize/wsize but it…
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Is a bad NFS mount preventing a clean boot?

I'm on Ubuntu server (I think it's 12.04, but not positive) and I basically ran into this problem here Unmount a nfs mount where the nfs server has disappeared The umount command didn't work, so I tried to just use the ol' reboot. Now the machine…
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Should I use mount or autofs?

I have NFS shares on a file server that I would like to mount on a web server. For example, a music streamer web application (subsonic) would be hosted on the web server and stream music files located on the file server via NFS shares. 1) Would it…
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Server stucked in reboot

When I reboot the server, it is getting stucked here. It may have problem with this webdav mounting in fstab: https://webdavdir /home/user/Maildir davfs rw,uid=user,gid=user,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 0 0 Any solution for this?
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Rescue fstab, invalid argument mounting my disk ext4

I have a problem, I think I wrong to edit /etc/fstab on centos7 and I cannot reboot my remote server. I'm in rescue mode with freebsd. I cannot mount my ada0s3 (on centos was sda3) to fix my fstab. root@rescuefbsd:/mnt # gpart show -p ada0 => …
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Hardening /home Directory via /etc/fstab

I am on Ubunto 20.04 server using a single partition at / for all directories as I am running web & mail servers. I hardened tmp , /var/tmp , & /run/shm using: none /tmp tmpfs nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 none /var/tmp tmpfs nodev,noexec,nosuid…
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Edit fstab on unmounted device

I tried to add swapfile to the root file system on AWS EC2 instance. Did I made a mistake during the edit of fstab? sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1G count=4 chmod 600 /swapfile mkswap /swapfile swapon /swapfile swapon -s I have edited…
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