Systemd makes everything easy. Gone is the drudgery
of appending a line to /etc/fstab with _netdev specified,
and auto.master, and running automount. Never leave to
simple and settled what complex and fast-moving can do.
I've been missing out on all the fun -- Slackware has
none of it.
--
Chuck Polisher
On 10/4/23 13:33, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
Here is an example. It's a CIFS mount, yet I am
sure you just need to
change the mount type.
```
//myspace.foo.com/files/letters_TEST /mnt/letters cifs
credentials=/srv/fooadmin/.smbcredentials,rw,uid=www-data,gid=fooadmin,noauto,x-systemd.automount,_netdev,dir_mode=0770
0 0
```
On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 10:08:39PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> I have an automount in my fstab on my server at work! It is an smb
> mount, yet it uses Debian which is using systemd.
>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 06:25:00PM -0600, Linus Sphinx wrote:
>> They seem to have changed the hierarchy of autofs config files or
>> something and it just stopped working for me. Looking for what changed
>> and ran into systemd.mount on stack exchange.
>> Short form:
>> write an entry in /etc/fstab like this:
>> nas:/data/directory /home/me/nas nfs nfsvers=4,nofail,x-systemd.automount 0 0
>> To activate this entry immediately, you would need two commands:
>> # systemctl daemon-reload # trigger systemd-fstab-generator to
>> re-make *.mount and *.automount units
>> # systemctl start home-me-nas.automount #start the newly created
>> automount unit or just reboot.
>> $ man systemd.mount
>> $ man systemd-fstab-generator
>> Reveal much about units created, still playing with it. The above
>> lines clipped from:
>>
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/671486/rhel-8-3-autofs-not-mountin…
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>
> "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
> way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
>
> Professor C. A. R. Hoare
> The 1980 Turing award lecture
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