On my main workstation running Fedora 36, I use both autofs and Systemd automount to mount NFS on demand. Gradually, I’m leaning toward just to use Systemd automount. Here is just a brain dump with an example of mounting an NFS share with Systemd autmount. Though, I had done this before, I found this blog post, available at [1], provides details on how to do this. Assumption The NFS server and share: banan....
At work, we want to backup an external disk that’s connected to the Mac machine using rsnapshot. In order to do that, the external drive needs to be mounted, and this happens when a user logs in to the Mac. The problem is that when nobody logs in, the external drive is not mounted and rsnapshot will fail. The fix should be easy if there is away to mount the external drive without a user logs in....
I love ZFS, but there is something that has annoyed me for quite sometimes – the zpool doesn’t get automatically mounted on boot. To work around this, I had to login as root and run: to import tank pool before I login with my normal user account. Well, I finally found a solution. This is what’s written on zfsonlinux/zfs WIFI about Fedora specifically: Systemd Update: When upgrading to the zfs-0.6.5.8 release it’s recommended that users manually reset the zfs systemd presets....