Creating A Mount Point For A Partition From Live USB

I want my Plex Media Server, Web Server, and Honeypot running on separate partitions. I've formatted them how I want:

SDA7 is my MediaCentre, formatted in XFS, I'd like this mounted as a separate partition and I'd like this to be the location of the Plex Media Server.

SDA8 is my WebServer, formatted in ext4. I'd also like this mounted as a separate partition and be the location of my Web Server (Probs use LAMP and an FTP Download Client).

SDA9 is my Honeypot server, formatted in XFS. Again, I'd like this to be mounted on a separate partition and will be where my Honeypot Server lives.

I'd also like all three servers to be running on VM's to help isolate them.

How do I go about accomplishing this? I'm a Windows native. In Windows I'd have partitioned everything, Created the virtual machines, moved them to their respective partitions, then installed all of the applications.

First things first, how/what do I mount these drives as? Can I just mount them as /mnt/mediaserver and /mnt/webserver etc? Will these mount points then be recognised?

mount -t cifs //192.168.86.135/home/ /smbdata/ -o ussername=localhost.localdomain/smbuser,password=x
mount error 13 = Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)


192.168.86.135 is my primary server IP and i tried to mount from another server which is accessible

Please help

I am trying to configure a Raspberry Pi to run as a file server, have installed SAMBA and have attached a 1TB external hard drive, which appears to have 4 partitions. Using Xwindows, I thought I had the advertised share mapped to the 1TB partition. So I physically placed the Pi in its permanent home (where it is difficult to get its video signal to a monitor etc.), so help with command line tools is best for me.

My problem is the share is acting like it only has about 2GB of space. And I am not sure why the mount command does not show me the partition.

I have attached to this post some output which has me baffled.

Thanks
Jonathan

I have a dual boot laptop with debian stable & Windows 7.

The HD partitions a
sda1: NTFS for W7
sda2: FAT32 (currently unused)
sda3: linux /boot
sda4: linux ext4, which is LVM with encryption

I've re-installed W7 and now need to recover the MBR & grub menu.

I've booted with the netinst usb in rescue mode, but it fails to mount the root partition /sda4:
"An error occured while mounting the device you entered for your root file system (/dev/sda4) on /target"

and /var/syslog shows:
Code:

rescue-mode: selected root device '/dev/sda4'
umount: cant umount /target: Invalid argument
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sda4, iso_blknum=16, block=32
EXT2-fs (sda4): error: unable to readsuperblock
EXT3-fs (sda4): error: unable to readsuperblock
rescue: mount: mounting /dev/sda4 on /target failed: Invalid argument

So it seems like something is wrong with the mount command?

Would appreciate suggestions how to solve this.

Thanks

hi experts

I got an NFS mount that I want to make permanent. So I know I have to added it in etc/fstab. but all I have is the mount shown below:

Code:

mount test.com:/vol/myhome /home

correspondingly, I have googled a sample nfs mount entry for fstab and made this:

Code:

#in fstab
test.com:/vol/myhome    /home    nfs  rw,soft,intr    0       0

are they same? I mean like permission wise and everything?

Thanks

I am installing VirtualBox on Centos per http://www.digitesters.com/centos-in...adless-system/, and I don't understand the very end. Seems like Line 5 is not needed as it is already done on Line 4, right?

Code:

# mkdir /data/virtual_machines/vbox/vbusbfs
# chown vboxuser.vboxusers /data/virtual_machines/vbox/vbusbfs
# chmod 775 /data/virtual_machines/vbox/vbusbfs
# echo "none /data/virtual_machines/vbox/vbusbfs usbfs rw,devgid=$(awk -F : '/vboxusers/ {print $3}' /etc/group),devmode=664 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
# echo "none /data/virtual_machines/vbox/vbusbfs usbfs rw,devgid=$(awk -F : '/vboxusers/ {print $3}' /etc/group),devmode=664 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
# mount -a

I executed the above script (except didn't execute Line 5, and my user:group is vbox:vbox and not vboxuser.vboxusers, and the folder is at /home/vbox and not /data/virtual_machines/vbox), and the following was added to /etc/fstab. Please explain what Line 4 did and what the below line in my fstab file means.
Code:

none /home/vbox/vbusbfs usbfs rw,devgid=496
504,devmode=664 0 0

I then executed mount -a, and got the following response. The part about /var/www/main/ayb_resources and /var/www/main/ayb_cache does not exist is probably some old stuff which I can get rid of, but I am particularly interested in "mount point 0 does not exist" as it seems to be related to the above.

Code:

[root@devserver vbox]# mount -a
mount: special device /var/www/main/ayb_resources does not exist
mount: special device /var/www/main/ayb_cache does not exist
mount: mount point 0 does not exist
[root@devserver vbox]#

My total fstab file is as follows:

Code:

[root@devserver vbox]# cat /etc/fstab
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sat Apr 19 05:57:56 2014
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root /                       ext4    defaults        1 1
UUID=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home  /home                  ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_mysql /var/lib/mysql         ext3    barrier=0       1 2
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/home/public/lib /var/www/main_lib/ayb_application/lib none bind
/var/www/main/html /var/www/main_lib/html none bind
/var/www/main/ayb_resources /var/www/main_lib/ayb_resources none bind
/var/www/main/ayb_cache /var/www/main_lib/ayb_cache none bind
none /home/vbox/vbusbfs usbfs rw,devgid=496
504,devmode=664 0 0
[root@devserver vbox]# mount -a
mount: special device /var/www/main/ayb_resources does not exist
mount: special device /var/www/main/ayb_cache does not exist
mount: mount point 0 does not exist
[root@devserver vbox]#

Hi all. My first time post and very new to linux.
I am using linux Mint Debian version.

My goal is to auto mount 2 external harddrives (Each hard drive is 2TB) attached to the 2 usb ports on my asus wireless router model rt-n56r.

I have succeeded in auto mounting my first drive HDD1 by configuring fstab file:

//192.168.1.1/HDD1 /media/public cifs username=**,password=**,rw,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

At boot this partition is mounted without issue.

In attempting to mount the second hard drive HDD2 I added another entry in fstab as follows:

//192.168.1.1/HDD2 /media/public cifs username=**,password=**,rw,nounix,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

It appears that both HDD1 and HDD2 mount however, when entering the partition only files and directories of the second hard drive appear.

So I changed the mount point in the second hard drive to reflect /media1/public1 and after the configuration neither hard drive appears to have mounted.

I tried using UUID instead of path to partition but cannot get even 1 attached hard drive to mount.

I appreciate in advance the help and assistance to my query.

I've setup a NFS4 file share on an usb drive on a server at home for my personal use. Both client and server use Debian stable (3.2.0-4-amd64). I followed the tutorial he

http://initrd.org/wiki/NFS_Setup

My setup seems to work fine if I mount it manually, just won't mount at bootup. Looking around online I see that this has been a common and long-standing problem- evidently the system tries to mount the NFS before the network is up.

I found a work-around- add this line to the /etc/rc.local file:

Code:

mount -a -t nfs4

Now it works, but of course I still have to wait for the initial timeout (60 seconds?) and a few more for this to work.

I find this really odd. Lots of online discussion about this for many years going. What is the real story on this? Is there some configuration setting that I (and many others) have simply missed?

BTW- many of the solutions I see online are old, won't work with NFS4, or are OS specific.

thanks,
Keith Ostertag

Hello,
I just want to know if it is possible to mount a share to /tmp on RHEL 6.6?

For example to mount <device hosting share>:/vol/share_name as /tmp
which is already mounted as follows:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/SDVol-LVtmp
1998672 512380 1381436 28% /tmp

Thank you.

I have followed all the instructions I have got from the net and made boot-able DVD's and USB sticks several different ways as people advise. I have done the same with Mint 17. I have created a partition (26G) and follow the install instructions 1: English 2:Has at least 7.4G available drive space. 4: Is connected to the internet. 5: Here it shows a page where I think it should display the drive options (but does not) If I push the "install now" button it comes up with an error "No root file system is defined --Please correct this from the partitioning menu" I close the installer and look at the drives in GParted and they are all there and the one I created for Linux is PARTITION - /dev/sda4 FILE SYSTEM - ext4
MOUNT POINT - /media/makulu/0C43086E0C43086E LABEL - Lin
SIZE - 26.02 GB USED - 590.07 Mb UNUSED - 24.44 GB FLAG - (blank)
No indication on how to fix the "No root file system" problem. I have tried so many bits of advise that I am beginning to think that I may be better of sticking to windows (perish the thought)
Can anyone help?
Col