• @Technoguyfication@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’ve always mounted network shares in fstab, what’s the benefit to doing it with systemd?

    (Also, for those of you learning, this method only works on systemd-based distros)

    • @Still@programming.dev
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      71 year ago

      you can stop and start it via systemctl and systemd is going to make mounts for fstab entries automatically, I just put local drives in my fstab so that way I can copy mount files between machines

    • @UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca
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      51 year ago

      With these systemd mount files I don’t need to touch the fstab, I can use ansible to copy the file, enable the service then start it. I can also have other services like Docker, Jellyfin or whatever to depend on that service. If the nfs share can’t be mounted then systemd won’t try to start docker.

    • exu
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      21 year ago

      Systemd can retry mounting based on the restart policy in case you have an interruption.