Mounting is the attaching of a file system to a computer

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USB Hard drive mounting as Read-Only

I've been mounting it with sudo mount -t ntfs -o umask=000 /dev/sda1 "/media/My Book" but for some reason it now says mount: warning: /media/My Book/ seems to be mounted read-only when I do so, and ls ...
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How is root directory mounted on Arch?

I installed Arch Linux ARM for Raspberry Pi and it doesn't have an entry for the root directory in /etc/fstab but it's still mounted on boot somehow. How is it mounted and how can mount options be ...
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Setting up the Raspberry as a data logger

As the title states I'm working on a simple embedded application which reads some information from the serial port and logs it to file, in addition to displaying a bit of status on the display. I'm ...
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Cannot mount hard drive - No /dev/sda

I'm trying to follow intructions found here (http://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi/how-to-raspberry-pi-file-server/) on how to set up a file server with the Raspberry pi, but cannot mount ...
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Mounting a microsd card via usb in raspbian

Plugging my blackberry into a usb port of a generic ubuntu machine shows it's microsd card as something I can mount and everything works. Here's what happens when I try to do the same thing in ...
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WD Passport disconnects and remounts itself

I have a Western Digital 500GB passport plugged into my Raspberry Pi through a powered hub. The problem is that it seems to lose the connection and unmount every so often with the following dmesg: ...
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Options for mounting a hard drive to lessen the chance of data loss?

I have a Raspberry Pi as my NAS machine with a USB external hard drive connected. When I remove the drive or power down the machine, I don't want to SSH to the computer (non-technical people will be ...
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Hardrives not automounting using fstab when using “reboot command”

Hey I've been trying to auto mount 2 of external hard drives at startup. But only one of the hardrives partition mounts fine on start up but the other one does not. They mount successfully when I use ...
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Problems with External Hard Drive - kernel: journal commit I/O error

I'm having issues keeping a 3TB USB 2.0 External Hard drive (self powered) mounted on my pi. I'm using a 1.0 A wall charger to power the pi. I'm connecting the hard drive to a powered Belkin USB hub ...
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Checking sdcard for errors, unmount problem

I've tried running running a disk check, then I got a complain pi@raspberrypi ~ $ /sbin/fsck fsck from util-linux 2.20.1 e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) /dev/mmcblk0p2 is mounted. WARNING!!! The ...
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How do I mount the .img files under Ubuntu?

I just downloaded the Debian and Arch Linux files and I would like to mount before I burn into the SD card. How can I mount the img? I tried to mount but I'm getting the following error: sudo mount ...
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How do I create and mount a partition using the remainder of my SD card?

I have seen instructions for resizing the partition here, but I do I create a whole new partition using the remaining space, and then mount it
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fstab not mounting partitions automatically [closed]

When I create new partitions on the flash drive I'm finding that they are not being mounted at boot. Here is my fstab: devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 shm ...
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How do I connect/disconnect a flash drive from the command line? [closed]

I am running Debian. I can plug in and view the contents of my flashdrive using filemanager under X, but how can I do this from the command line, and how can I safely remove it when I am done?