automatic mount of partitions

[François Patte]

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Sujet : Re: automatic mount of partitions
Date : Wed, 20 May 2020 11:08:08 +0200
De : François Patte <francois.patte(a)mi.parisdescartes.fr&gt;
Organisation : Université Paris Descartes
Pour : Greg Woods <greg(a)gregandeva.net&gt;

Le 19/05/2020 à 18:59, Greg Woods a écrit :
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>  
>  On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:41 AM François Patte
>  <francois.patte(a)mi.parisdescartes.fr
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  
>  
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>      I have computer A (a desktop) and a computer B (a laptop) and I want to
>      automatically mount a partition of A on B when B starts.
>  
>  
>  I use systemd automounts for this. In /etc/fstab on B, something like this:
>  
>  A:/path/to/mount /path/on/B nfs
>  noauto,rw,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=1min,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30
>      0 0
>  
>  Generally, just accessing anything under /path/on/B will cause the mount
>  to happen. It will then unmount after 1 minute of nothing accessing
>  /path/on/B. An attempt to access /path/on/B if A is not available will
>  hang for 30 seconds, then report a failure to the accessing application. 
Thank you. I try this and up to now I failed to mount the remote
directory...

I added user in the options.

1- selinux came with some suggestions to add with semanage,
setsebool.... Without any effect (ie. when I try to mount the directory,
setroubleshoot always suggest the same operations to do if I want to
mount my directory and, if I retry to execute the suggested commands, it
replies that the stuff is already set... and, as usual with selinux, for
some commands you have a list of options to try without any explanations
about the meaning of these options! So you have to try the first, the
the second.... boring!)

2- I disabled selinux. And still it is impossible to mount the remote
directory: no messages in /var/log, I tried journalctl without any
success:journalctl -f returns nothing when I try to mount the directory,
and journalctl | grep automount returns " Got automount request for
/home/.../...", then: "Failed with result
'mount-start-limit-hit'".... A
very helpfull message indeed!

Who can light my candle?

Thank you.
>  
>  This works well for me. 
Lucky man!

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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
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-- 
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145
Université Paris Descartes
45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. [phone]
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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