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Best practices in mounting NAS shares? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dtrain to c/[email protected]

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What are some best practices in mounting NAS shares that you all follow?

Currently I am mounting using fstab to my user’s home directory with full rwx permissions, but that feels wrong.

I’ve read to use the mnt directory or the media directory but opinions differ.

My main concern is I want to protect against inadvertently deleting the contents of the NAS with an errant rm command. And yes I have backups of my NAS too.

Edit: this is a home NAS with 1 user on this Linux PC (the other clients being windows and Mac systems)

Would love to hear everyone’s philosophy! Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need to start doing this

[–] TCB13 5 points 1 year ago

https://www.golinuxcloud.com/mount-partition-using-systemd/#Steps_to_mount_partition_using_systemd_unit_file

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

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

[–] dtrain 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

[–] steel_moose 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

#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