Hi! I need to do some edits to fstab to auto mount smb shares from my home server. Should I edit fstab in /etc/? If so, do edits to /etc/fstab persist between updates? From what I understand /etc/ should be a “normal” directory in atomic land.

Yes that’s fine, it is mentioned in this topic under “Alternative Methods (CLI)”.

That’s for local drives though. Fstab is fine for those since they’re always connected and you can have them mounted by root on boot.

[image] Alan: Fstab is fine for those since they’re always connected and you can have them mounted by root on boot. Why would this be different than on a non-atomic OS, where you’d simply use noauto and user ? IDK if it’s perfectly matching the atomic pattern, but it’s probably an intended u…

Why would this be different than on a non-atomic OS, where you’d simply use noauto and user ? I mentioned this in my previous comment; you get an error: This program is not installed setuid root - "user" CIFS mounts not supported.

[image] Alan: So what I’ve been doing is creating systemd user .mount files for the drives I want mounted, and doing it that way. Thanks! I’ll look into this.

Here’s one of my mount unit files: [image] Backup to NAS via SMB failure to set up repository Bluefin and Aurora (I know it’s too late but) try using rclone mount for your samba mounts. That’s what I’m doing because I found it more reliable and capable of reconnecting aft…

[image] Alan: So what I’ve been doing is creating systemd user .mount files for the drives I want mounted, and doing it that way. Hi again! Where do you place these files? I suspect /etc/systemd/system isn’t the right place? Do you use .mount + .automount files? Can you give a more precise ex…

They go in ~/.config/systemd/user/. automount is for when you only want the mount to happen when you open the folder. You can see in my mount file that the trigger is network-online, i.e. it will automatically mount when my laptop has a network connection. There’s nothing UBlue specific about this…

Thanks again @Alan ! I read your message after having done the stuff below. It seems to work after reboot. Do you see any problems with using the dirs I have used if they seem to work now? I’d like to survive a system update. :smiley: mkdir /var/mnt/serverstorage/ Saved var-mnt-serverstorage.autom…

I can’t write to the SMB share after having done what I did in my previous message. Have tried sudo chown myuser:myuser /var/mnt/serverstorage/ Does not seem to work. It’s still owned by root: ls -l /var/mnt/ drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Jun 19 22:53 serverstorage

Should I edit /etc/fstab?

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Alan September 28, 2024, 1:51pm 8

Here’s one of my mount unit files:

Topic		Replies	Views
Mounting a SMB share to /mnt? Bluefin	13	772	July 28, 2025
How to install autofs Bluefin	4	340	December 23, 2023
[SOLVED] Edit fstab with a live cd? Bazzite	0	812	April 18, 2024
Automount not providing exec despite fstab flag and user perms? Bazzite	5	592	June 7, 2024
SMB automount using systemd Bazzite	3	3686	March 19, 2026

Should I edit /etc/fstab?

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