Nah, that’s good. What I mean is, if it’s in /etc/fstab, it should be possible to manually mount it without a reboot. Have you tried manually remounting it after power comes back?
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Lenna@piefed.ca 4 weeks agoauto-mounting system that only happens to run at boot
This is correct. I made my drive auto mount using /etc/fstab, and I believe that is only checked once during boot.
tal@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago Lenna@piefed.ca 4 weeks ago
Nope, I haven’t tried that. But I will give it a try when the next power outage occurs. I actually didn’t know I could manually remount until today. I’m still pretty new to selfhosting.
- tal@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Gotcha. Yeah, the stuff in fstab is just a convenience; it’s equivalent to running a bunch of mount commands at boot. You might be able to just run “mount” again without the ‘-o remount” option. I was just listing that in case you were seeing some kind of errors in trying to manually mount it.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 4 weeks ago
You can run mount -a to mount all fstab entries. You could put that in a cronjob I guess
Lenna@piefed.ca 4 weeks ago
If I were to make it run that command every 5 minutes, would there be any downsides?
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 4 weeks ago
I don’t know if it has side effects when there’s issues with mounting or the like.
It would also interfere if you want to unmount it and forget to disable the cronjob.