A mountpoint is a physical location in the partition used as a root filesystem. Use this tag for any questions about mountpoints.
Questions tagged [mountpoint]
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Error: /dev/hugepages does not exist
Today, when I ran DPDK on Ubuntu, I got this error:
$ sudo mount -t hugetlbfs -o pagesize=1G none /dev/hugepages
mount: mount point /dev/hugepages does not exist
Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks.
Tung Doan
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decrease mount point partition
The mounting point / partition only uses a small fraction (7%) of the 132 GB originally allocated by the Ubuntu installer. Can I safely reallocate space from the / partition to the /home partition? can I reduce / to 32 GB and add 100 GB to…
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What happens if I simply change a mount point from /usr/local to /usr?
I have this disk set up like so:
/dev/sda3 mounted to: /usr/local
if I just change this (in fstab, right?) to:
/dev/sda3 mounted to: /usr
What happens? Do I lose anything or does it all just default to the new mount point?
Jesse
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Was /media mount point location a planned change?
Possible Duplicate:
How to configure the default automount location?
I would like ask an important question regarding Ubuntu 12.10 installation on my laptop T500 ... those partitions which are not explicitly defined in fstab gets mounted to…
joe1983
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Mount point label randomly modified on mount
I have an external drive mounted that I want to mount at /media/Storage. I used disk utility and then gparted as per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive to change the label of the drive to "Storage." Whenever the drive mounts, however,…
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double mount point created after using mount manager from ubuntu repossitories
after I used mount manager from repo, in nautilus was created two mount points for one disk, one works fine, second is simply an icon, when click is getting error:Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may…
Vitali
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Where and how should I mount second hdd so that it doesn't use root storage
I have just reinstalled Ubuntu after messing things up with chown in root directory.
I'm trying to save a new mount point for second hdd. sdb1 partition is already formatted as ext4.
The problem began when root directory on sda2 was running out of…
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Delete mounting points
I primarily using Ubuntu (16.04) but have also Win10 installed. Recently I need Windows more often and switch between the two OS. I have two partitions with the operating systems (C for Win and 'Computer' for Ubuntu) and a third 'DATA' which is…
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