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Re: setting up a drive automount in systemd?

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On May 16, 2018 2:35 PM, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

> Not what you want, but related, possibly it will help to make sense
> 
> of other documentation. I have network drives set to automount on first
> 
> use. Here is a typical /etc/fstab line:
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> //<server>/Media /mnt/<server>/Media cifs
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> noauto,x-systemd.automount,user,guest,noperm,dir_mode=0x777,file_mode=0x777,vers=1.0,rw
> 
> Note that without the 'noauto' it will automount on boot, which is
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> not what you normally want for network or removable drives, given that
> 
> the boot will hang if the drive is not found. I believe 'nofail'
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> instead would also prevent a boot hang, but I also don't want a dozen
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> possibly delayed mount processes holding up boot, I'm prepared to wait
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> until I need them. Note that most of the parameters are relevant to
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> cifs/samba mounts.
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> With no /etc/fstab entry, a removable drive when plugged in will by
> 
> default automount on first use. I don't recall that any manual
> 
> configuration was necessary for that to happen.

That's what initially puzzled me -- there is *no* /etc/fstab file at all, leading me to consider that it's possible that everything has changed. If I were to make an /etc/fstab with just the line I need for the drive, this would work with systemd?

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setting up a drive automount in systemd? dep <dep@drippingwithirony.com> - 2018-05-16 18:50 +0200
  Re: setting up a drive automount in systemd? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-05-16 21:00 +0200
    Re: setting up a drive automount in systemd? dep <dep@drippingwithirony.com> - 2018-05-16 21:10 +0200
  Re: setting up a drive automount in systemd? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-05-16 21:10 +0200
    Re: setting up a drive automount in systemd? dep <dep@drippingwithirony.com> - 2018-05-16 21:30 +0200
      Re: setting up a drive automount in systemd? john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-05-16 21:50 +0200
        Re: setting up a drive automount in systemd? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-05-17 13:00 +0200
          Re: setting up a drive automount in systemd? Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2018-05-18 01:40 +0200

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