Re: automatic mount of partitions

[Greg Woods]

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:41 AM François Patte <
francois.patte(a)mi.parisdescartes.fr&gt; wrote:

>  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.

This works well for me.

--Greg