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How to kill a stuck linux mount

By On 18 March 2016 · Leave a Comment

How can you remove a mounted USB stick or USB HDD from the list of mounted devices?

PROBLEM

We have all done it – in a hurry you unplug a USB drive which was mounted in your Linux system without properly unmounting it and then it sits there in your list of mounts and you […]

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Creating and Accessing a VirtualBox shared folder.

By On 12 May 2011 · 1 Comment

To use a Shared Folder on your virtual machine:

1. Use the VirtualBox GUI to add a folder, located on your host (“real”) computer to the list.
This will be the folder that you want to use for sharing and which will be visible on your “guest” machine.

The Shared Folders are available […]

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Help! Unable to automount my usb flash disk!

By On 29 March 2011 · 1 Comment

PROBLEM: On certain Linux distributions removable media (USB flash drives, CD’s,…) are auto-mounted by default and all users can read and write to them (if media is writeable of course). On others, inserting a removeable media results in an error message similar to Failed to mount “200GB Volume”, e.g. an error message from your file-manager […]

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Help I can’t write to my windows disk/partition from linux!

By On 25 March 2011 · Leave a Comment

There may be several possible causes why one would not be able to access their Windows hard disk or windows partition. If we assume that obvious human errors are out of the question (e.g. permissions errors due user not having write permissions to the directory of the mount or user not specifying the ‘-o w’ […]

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