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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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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[–] Molecular0079 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I agree, for most cases just mount it via your File Manager of choice. If you're using it as a backing storage for another server, then that's a use case where fstab is fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've found that Dolphin, at least, is much slower with network mounts than a CLI-based "mount".

[–] Molecular0079 1 points 11 months ago

Lately performance has improved dramatically. A year ago, it used to be about half-speed, but now it's basically on par with a CLI-mount.

[–] dtrain 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If I mount it in the file manager, how do I reference that location in the terminal to say do copy operations to it?

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

It has to have a mount point somewhere. Just double click the desktop entry, that will mount it wherever you told it to and then you can copy to that location, easy peasy 😉.

[–] Molecular0079 1 points 11 months ago

Which file manager are you using?

In Nautilus, you can right click anywhere and click Open in Console, at which point it will open up a terminal leading to a gvfs mount directory.

In KDE, it is slightly more annoying because there's no right click option to quickly open it in terminal, but like gvfs, there's a mount directory that you can access at /run/user//kio-fuse-/smb/.