I need someone to kick me in the {butt}, please

kevinbenko · 04-24-2021, 12:44 PM

{sigh} I am a dumb {rectum}
I was having trouble auto-mounting some drives when I did a reboot, even to the point of doing a cron "job"

It really frustrated me to no end.... after a few days of this I realized FINALLY that the mount points were NOT {name}, but were /home/{name}

Aaarrrggghhh!!!

TorC · 04-24-2021, 12:56 PM

KICK!

Emerson · 04-24-2021, 02:00 PM

Between kicks received you could let your leg pulled.

hazel · 04-24-2021, 02:17 PM

That's why I hate automounting. If I mount a drive by hand, I know where it is.

scasey · 04-24-2021, 02:40 PM

I appreciate kevinbenko sharing the experience...it’s a good reminder of the fact that the damn ‘puters only do what they’re told (or not)....

enorbet · 04-25-2021, 01:27 PM

/etc/fstab is your friend.

business_kid · 04-26-2021, 05:12 AM

A suitable pic attached. But fstab provides root writable only drives. If you go with fstab, you need

mount point root:root (e.g. /mnt/drive1)
No files except those belonging to root in mount point. (/mnt/drive1/somefile.txt)
Subdirs all user:group owned (/mnt/drive1/mydir/)

Then a user can write in the subdirectories.

I have a general purpose backup drive which I habitually mount on /mnt/hd using that system, but I should automate it. If I mount it as luser, the user can create & delete directories. I mean to find where fortune is called and stuff it in local files for one luser, but I go through humours when I feel it shouldn't always be connected.