How 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 the one I wished to … Read more

How 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 user. [root@darkstar Videos]# chown -R … Read more

How 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]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo head -c … Read more

How 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 Windows, this problem will go … Read more

Mounting 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 mkdir /root/img [sudo] password for … Read more

My /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 fstab(5). # # <file system> … Read more