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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] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there are a few limitations to each. NFS, for example, doesn't play nicely with certain options if you're using a filesystem overlay (overlays), which can be annoying when using it for PXE environments. It does however allow you to mount in several remote machines simultaneously, which I don't think iSCSI would play nicely with.

SMB though has user-based authentication built in, watch can be quite handy esp if you're not into setting up a whole Kerberos stack in order to use that functionality with NFS.