Mounting it in fstab is a bad idea... in home even worse.
Just make some desktop entries with the shares and that should be enough.
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What's so wrong with fstab?
Well, for one, it's network attached storage. If it's not present in the network for one reason or another, guess what, your OS doesn't boot... or it errors during boot, depending on how the kernel was compiled and what switches your bootloader sends to the kernel during boot. Second, this is an easy way for malware to spread, especially if it's set to run after user logon.
Well, for one, it's network attached storage. If it's not present in the network for one reason or another, guess what, your OS doesn't boot... or it errors during boot, depending on how the kernel was compiled and what switches your bootloader sends to the kernel during boot.
Just use nofail in the fstab.
Second, this is an easy way for malware to spread, especially if it's set to run after user logon.
If your fileshare is accessible to you, it is also accessible to malware running as your user. Mounting the share via a filemanager doesn't change this.
I use systemd mount files instead of fstab, that way I can specify a network dependency in the off chance there's no network connection. Plus I can have other services like jellyfin depend on that mount file so it starts after the share is available.
Dipping my toes into this as well. Would you care to share the contents of your .mount unit file?
If I understand it correctly systemd generates unit files at boot using fstab 🤔. Probably not possible to specify the network dependency in fstab.
#cat /etc/systemd/system/mnt-data.mount
[Unit]
Description=nfs mount script
[Mount]
What=192.168.0.30:/mnt/tank/Media
Where=/mnt/data
Type=nfs4
[Install]
WantedBy=remote-fs.target
The file name has to match the folder upon which the share is mounted with hypens instead of forward slashes
in fstab, there's a nofail option that I started using when mounting NFS and other disks that may be missing and I don't want to kill my bootup