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How do you automount without a desktop environment? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by superkret@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What's the easiest way to make external USB drives automount, without adding them to fstab? It should just work even if someone else hands me their flash drive.
I'm running sway on Arch if that matters.

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[–] AzureCerulean@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

Automatic mounts with systemd · Blog | Tomáš Tomeček

https://blog.tomecek.net/post/automount-with-systemd

#udisks2 #autofs #systemd

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 13 points 1 month ago

You shouldn't just automount external drives. That's a recipe for trouble.

What's wrong with manually mounting them? Pretty sure the desktop environments also require you to push a button (eg, select the drive in file manager) to mount external USB drives.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

DEs dont use mount and fstab, they use udisks2 which works with polkit, GUI prompts or rootless.

Using udisksctl prevents a ton of breakages.

I dont know about how autostart files work anymore, I always thought just place stuff in ~/.config/autostart but now those dont work anymore on KDE, sometimes.

I think you use your init system for that. If you go fully rootless, you can create a user systemd service that mounts the drive.

mkdir -p ~/flashdrive

cat &lt; ~/.config/systemd/user/flashdrive-mount.service
[Unit]
Description=Mount flash drive on /dev/sda
#After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/sda --mount-point /home/$USER/flashdrive
RemainAfterExit=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

systemctl --user enable --now flashdrive-mount.service

Not sure if After=multi-user.target and WantedBy=multi-user.target twists the space time continuum or something.

I am always kinda confused by those targets, as you must state one.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can use udev rules and systemd mount or AutoFs.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Udev
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd#systemd.mount_-_mounting

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Autofs