Re: "auto mount"

Francis Montagnac via users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Message-ID <20260601075037.180bfda5@fmpc>
On Sun, 31 May 2026 23:04:59 -0600 Joe Zeff <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wouldn't it be a lot easier to add them to /etc/fstab and let the system 
> mount them?  If they're not always be there at boot, just add user and 
> nofail to the list of mount options so that there aren't any problems if 
> they aren't there at boot, and you can later mount them without needing 
> root.  HTH, HAND.

Yes, that's an option, as well as using x-systemd.automount instead of
user,nofail.

I prefer writing explicit systemd unit files to have more control and
to let /etc/fstab as build at install time.

-- 
francis
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