Every Linux distribution available can mount an NFS share—as long as the right software is installed. While NFS might sound daunting for newcomers to Linux, the process is more straightforward than it appears. Keep reading as I demystify the steps involved in mounting an NFS drive in Linux, ...
When you plug a USB drive into your computer, Linux should automatically mount the drive, allowing you to access it. However, there may be times when the disk you want to use isn’t mounted automatically, meaning that you can’t currently use it. If this happens, the fix isn’t too d...
To mount a USB drive in Linux using a terminal, follow the step-by-step instructions given below. If you’re using Ubuntu Linux and aren’t familiar with the command line, skip the first method to the next one and mount and unmount the USB drive using the Ubuntu GUI application. How T...
Automounting is a thing because when you have secondary drives attached to a machine, they aren't automatically available to you upon boot of the machine. Yes, you can open your desktop file manager, navigate to the drive, and mount it by clicking the entry. However, this can be problemat...
Question: I am trying to mount a USB flash drive which is formatted in exFAT on my Linux machine. But the mount command fails with the following error. How can I fix this error and mount the exFAT drive? mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'. ...
If you want to mount Google Drive on Linux, you can trygoogle-drive-ocamlfuse(gdfuse), which is a FUSE-based file system backed by Google Drive. Using this user-space file system, you can mount your Google Drive account on Linux, and have full read/write access to files/folders stored...
1.1. Install Rclone in Linux 1.2. Configure Rclone to access Google drive 1.3. Mount Google Drive Locally As Virtual File System Using Rclone 2. Google-drive-ocamlfuse 2.1. Install google-drive-ocamlfuse in Linux 2.2. Mount Google Drive Locally As Virtual File System Using google-drive-ocamlfuse...
Once a disk has been partitioned, Linux needs some way to access the data on the partitions. Unlike DOS or Windows (where this is done by assigning a drive letter to each partition), Linux uses aunified directory treewhere each partition is mounted at a mount point in that tree. ...
After you execute mount a partition or filesystem, execute the mount command without any arguments to view all the mounts. In the example below, after mounting the USB drive on a system, the output of mount looks like the below. As seen below, the USB device (i.e:/dev/sdb) is mount...
google-drive-ocamlfuse~/gdrive To automatically mount your Google Drive at boot time, add “google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/gdrive” to the Startup Applications. You could also modifyfstabfile as mentioned in theWiki. The later also explains how to connect multiple accounts, how to authorize it from...