How to mount an LVM volume on Ubuntu. This is very useful.
How to mount a partition inside an LVM volume group in Ubuntu easily.
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How to attach an ISO image to a Virt manager virtual machine.
How to mount an ISO in Virt Manager as a CDROM drive.
Read MoreHow to mount a remote folder on a server over SSH with SSHFS properly.
How to mount a directory and access the files as your normal Linux user easily, this is a very useful networking tip when using a Linux server on a LAN.
Read MoreHow to mount a Linux formatted external drive in Windows Services for Linux on Windows 11.
I plugged my old Ubuntu HDD into an external housing and I needed to mount it in Windows Services for Linux on Windows 11. This is not too hard at all. Firstly run this Powershell one-liner to find the drive you are looking to mount. The WDC WD10 drive is…
Read MoreHow to add a directory in a mounted filesystem as a directory accessible by your user.
How to mount a partition on Linux and make your old home directory accessible to your user To add a directory in a mounted drive as a folder accessible by a normal user, use this command to change the ownership of all files and directories to that of your current…
Read MoreHow to mount an Xbox formatted drive on Ubuntu.
Mounting an HDD formatted with the Xbox filesystem can be a pain, but it can be done. Run this command in the terminal to get the filesystem offset of the current filesystem. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo head -c 4k /dev/sdg | grep -aobuP ‘\x00\x00\x00NTFS’ | sed ‘s/\:.*//’ 2048┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼…
Read MoreUbuntu is very good for working with multimedia files.
The Ubuntu Linux distribution is very good for working with multimedia files. I insert a flash drive with an AVCHD file on it and it is automatically opened as a folder. This makes it very easy to extract the video files inside. This is even more convenient than on Mac…
Read MoreMounting an LVM volume on Ubuntu 20.04 is very easy.
Mounting an old LVM volume on Ubuntu 20.04, is very easy, there are numerous posts on Stackoverflow that have many complicated commands for mounting a drive using the command line. But I needed to mount an old Ubuntu installation and it was an LVM2 volume, so I could not get…
Read MoreHow to mount a folder on another computer over a network using SSH.
Using SSH is a very good way to connect to another computer that is running Linux, it is also possible to mount a folder on the remote machine over a network and access it on your local computer. This is a very good way to access remote files. Firstly, install…
Read MoreHow to disable fast boot on Windows 8.1 that prevents mounting the partition from Linux.
The fast boot feature of Windows 8.1 allows a user to load Windows faster than ever before; but this can interfere with the mounting of the Windows partition from Linux. This forces the user to mount the partition read-only. But if you use this command in a command prompt on…
Read MoreMounting an ISO image with the command line and other useful commands.
Mounting an ISO image to a folder and accessing the contents of the image is very simple. Firstly we need to create a directory to mount the image to. |{/mnt/Elements/Files/ISOs}-{Fri Mar 22 23:52:17} -{john@adeptus-mechanicus } $ sudo mkdir /root/img [sudo] password for john:|{/mnt/Elements/Files/ISOs}-{Fri Mar 22 23:52:17} -{john@adeptus-mechanicus } $ sudo…
Read MoreMy /etc/fstab file. This is how I mount my NTFS drives every time I boot my machine.
This is my /etc/fstab file. # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use ‘blkid’ to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See…
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