Re: relative path in fstab
On (20/02/05 14:53), Daniel D Jones wrote:
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>
> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:53:08 -0500
> Subject: Re: relative path in fstab
>
> On Sunday 20 February 2005 12:47 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > Daniel D Jones wrote:
> > > Is it possible to put a path relative to the users home directory in
> > > fstab?
> > >
> > > fstab doesn't seem to expand either ~ or $HOME.
> > >
> > > Man and google have been no help.
> >
> > That would not make sense in the context of an fstab. $HOME belongs to
> > a particular user. mount is always run as root:
> >
> > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 76K Sep 24 00:34 /bin/mount
> >
> > Thus, $HOME would always expand to /root. Why not just specify the
> > absolute path?
>
> I have a number of network paths I want to mount. I don't want to pollute the
> root directory with a bunch of extra paths. I could add the directories
> under /mnt or a custom root directory, such as /shares or /network but I
> don't like that for a few reasons. Some of our users are less than clueful.
> I'd prefer to avoid them having to type or click through a long path. And
> for many programs, when you go to open or save a file, the default location
> in the file picker dialog is your home directory. So I wanted to mount them
> in the users home directory by adding them to fstab with the noauto option
> and mounting from the users login script.
>
> The workaround I've come up with is to mount them under /mnt and to create
> links to the mountpoints in the users home directory.
Have you considered using samba/smbclient instead?
Regards
Clive
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