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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I thought I'll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I'll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

How the hell do I set up my NAS (Synology) and laptop so that I have certain shares mapped when I'm on my home network - AND NOT freeze up the entire machine when I'm not???

For years I've been un/commenting a couple of lines in my fstab but it's just not okay to do it that way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab#External_devices

looks like this will do it. no-fail and a systemd timeout

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Aha, interesting, thank you. So setting nofail and a time out of, say, 5s should work... but what then when I try to access the share, will it attempt to remount it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Look up "automount". You can tell linux to watch for access to a directory and mount it on demand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is also what I'd like to know, and I think the answer is no. I want to have NFS not wait indefinitely to reconnect, but when I reconnect and try going to the NFS share, have it auto-reconnect.

edit: This seemed to work for me, without waiting indefinitely, and with automatic reconnecting, as a command (since I don't think bg is an fstab option, only a mount command option): sudo mount -o soft,timeo=10,bg serveripaddress:/server/path /client/path/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You could simply use a graphical tool to mount it. Nautilus has it built in and I'm sure other tools have it as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

laptop så that

Sneaky swedes :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

User login script could do it. Have it compare the wireless ssid and mount the share if it matches. If you set the entry in fstab to noauto it’ll leave it alone till something says to mount it.