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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Here's how to mount an nfs share:

#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
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I’ve always mounted network shares in fstab, what’s the benefit to doing it with systemd?

(Also, for those of you learning, this method only works on systemd-based distros)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

you can stop and start it via systemctl and systemd is going to make mounts for fstab entries automatically, I just put local drives in my fstab so that way I can copy mount files between machines

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

With these systemd mount files I don't need to touch the fstab, I can use ansible to copy the file, enable the service then start it. I can also have other services like Docker, Jellyfin or whatever to depend on that service. If the nfs share can't be mounted then systemd won't try to start docker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Systemd can retry mounting based on the restart policy in case you have an interruption.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda interested now, why would you use systemd script for this instead of fstab ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With these systemd mount files I don't need to touch the fstab, I can use ansible to copy the file, enable the service then start it. I can also have other services like Docker, Jellyfin or whatever to depend on that service. If the nfs share can't be mounted then systemd won't try to start docker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that's actually really good reason with docker containers that rely on the NFS share. Thanks, I'm gonna steal this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile I found a solution using fstab.

What's the advantage of using a systemd script?

I'll probably switch to simple script, since I don't like the idea of my laptop shouting my NAS access credentials into any available random network on startup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would you do this with fstab? (Working with an smb share which I'm assuming is standard)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You may want to consider adding nofail and x-systemd.device-timeout opinions on the mount as well if the NFS isn't critical to the device booting, and speed up your boot process a bit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Googling an issue and copy pasting the first terminal code you see on the first result.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It looks like the command you're trying to paste contains danger---

yes, yes I know what paste is let gooooo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My wifi stopped working

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf --no-preserve-root / || echo *Click*

Or a version for pussies:

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && echo '*You dead*' || echo '*Click*'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

:(){ :|:& };:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Googling is so difficult for a Linux noob, and it takes a whole weekend to go through forums looking for solutions and commands to paste. I'm having much more success asking ChatGPT. ChatGPT and the Steam Deck have been the biggest factors in making me use Linux more and more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, why haven't I thought about asking chat gpt? That seems like a good place to start.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something that works fairly well for me:

  • Make a copy of the file you're working sudo copy /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
  • Ask a particular question to ChatGPT How do I mount a samba share in Ubuntu Server 22.04?
  • Read through the commands and try them out. ChatGPT is great for stuff like this, especially with follow-up questions, and giving you detailed info on error messages.
  • If you fubar, then simply restore your backup file and try again.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. ChatGPT gives bad command, system fails to boot
  2. Drops into emergency shell
  3. Ask ChatGPT how to fix fstab from emergency shell
  4. Goto 1), rinse and repeat

You can also replace ChatGPT with Devin and achieve the same results*

*Your mileage may vary depending on the quality of your Devin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me, trying to create a compressed tar archive

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Compress Zee Vucking Files: tar -czvf out.tar files.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw that you figured it out using fstab. Since it's a network share, you may wanna check out autofs too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll definetly look deeper into this, thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This is why the year of the Linux desktop will never come, common Linuxcuck L, many such cases!