I’d like to know what is the exact mechanism (implementation) used to defer mounting until after network interface is up when one uses _netdev option in /etc/fstab?
Does systemd alter this behavior?
Also, what does delay_connect option to sshfs provide what _netdev does not?
Edit 2020: I’ve been using the systemd-answer posted below for several years now, and am quite happy with it.
..and what are the consequences of the different methods?
I have quite a bit of removable media (flash drives, external hard drives, etc) that I want to adjust auto mount options for. How does one do this? Is there something similar to /etc/fstab?
I have a USB key that contains my keepass2 password database and I’d like to perform some actions when it is plugged into my computer, namely:
I’m running a small server for our flat share. It’s mostly a file server with some additional services. The clients are Linux machines (mostly Ubuntu, but some others Distros too) and some Mac(-Book)s in between (but they’re not important for the question). The server is running Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) ‘Server Edition’, the system from which I do my setup and testing runs the 11.10 ‘Desktop Edition’. We where running our shares with Samba (which we are more familiar with) for quite some time but then migrate to NFS (because we don’t have any Windows users in the LAN and want to try it out) and so far everything works fine.
I have a Debian sid system (Wheezy) (and same for arch), without any desktop environment (and no Xorg at all).
I am trying to auto mount a folder from my raspberry pi (/home/pi/server_folder), to a local folder (/home/my_name/raspberrypi). I can do this with sshfs (auto mount in fstab) when I set up a blank rsa key, but when I try to use an actual key, like 123, the raspberry pi filesystem wont mount. This is pretty obvious, since I have to supply the passphrase, but is there a way to have it ask for the passphrase when I first try to access /home/my_name/raspberrypi, or do something similar to that? Because if someone gets my laptop, they dont need to put a password or anything in to get access to my raspberry pi, if I leave the rsa key blank. I have looked into autofs, and autosshfs, but autosshfs won’t download, and autofs doesn’t explain how to mount with an actual rsa key (well, I haven’t found a guide on how to). I’m using arch Linux, latest version. Here is the fstab entry:
I’m setting up udev to handle my external USB hard drive when it gets plugged in and removed (no mounting yet). So far, I’ve made two new rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules to log adding/removing the disk to a file:
I’m trying to automatically mount a network drive at startup by editing /etc/fstab but doesn’t work.