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systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success (blog.tjll.net)
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[–] Eryn6844@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

can someone please tell me how to make .mount files start at boot for smb shares ffs? is the only thing systemd is failing for me.

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 21 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I dont know what you are doing, but I have my smb shares simply in fstab and never heard of any .mount file

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

On modern systems, fstab entries are read by systemd and .mount files are automatically created for each entry. 😄

[–] Eryn6844@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 16 hours ago

i am making them in salt-stack systemd templates/pillars. i will see what i miss when i do a fstab one.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 17 hours ago

Systemd can use .mount files to make services and stuff depend on the availability of a mount. They can either be created by hand or are created automatically from fstab.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 6 points 17 hours ago

IIRC You simply write/change the fstab as in every system. Then you say "systemctl daemon-reload" once, and this (re)creates your .mount files. Then "mount -a" or whatever you need.

[–] Eryn6844@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 16 hours ago

thanks everyone.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Samba#As_systemd_unit

That's the guide I followed on my desktop and laptop.

[–] hesh@quokk.au 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Can you see if its trying and failing by using journalctl?

[–] Eryn6844@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

no matter what i do it only does on try.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Network not ready by time the mount is executed?

[–] Eryn6844@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

yup,

[–] tinsuke@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I have a service that pings the server:

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/ping-smb.service
[Unit]
Description=Blocks until pinging 192.168.1.10 succeeds
After=network-online.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=ping -c1 192.168.1.10
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=1

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

sudo systemctl enable ping-smb.service

And then I make the fstab entry depend on it:

x-systemd.requires=ping-smb.service
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago

I had something similar when I used to mount an NFS share. I had a bash line that would loop ping and then mount once ping succeeds. Having a separate service that pings and making the mount dependent on it is probably the better thing to do. Should also work when put in Requires= in a .mount file.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

My nfs mounts always add 1:45 to my boot even though I added _netdev to their lines in fstab. I don't get it.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Use

_netdev,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=10s

nofail doesn't interrupt the boot and 10 seconds is a more sane timeout. You can also use

x-systemd.automount

And it will automatically mount the directory the first time it is accessed.