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Frankly, you are probably right. I am pretty new to all thisandwhat I have here is basically just cobbled together from nonsense examples I scrounged up off the internet. What’s funny is, a good 20% of this I habe no idea how it works! Lol

Originally i was juat going to make the script simply a list of all my mount commands and not even post anything about it at all. I spent a good two days playing around with about a dozen different ideas on how to accomplish my goal until this one, the first that worked at all. But yeah, I have been doinh a lot of fun stuff since I officially dropped Windows entirely a few weeks ago and a lot of the inner workings of how Linux works in general is just starting to make sense to me.

Pretty much the Arch wiki and the Gentoo wiki alongwith copious amounts of google fu have become an all encompasing hobby of mine as of late. I’ll get there eventually. 😁

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CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Don’t put yourself down! Using systemd wouldn’t make it work “better”, it’s just more “proper” (and a great tool to know in general!)

Great job and keep going!

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- cammelspit@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks! Yeah, I have noticed a lot of places where the location of things is not necessarily a requirement but it is considered “proper”. It’s a whole different paradigm compared to the rather severely rigid requirements of Windows. I went through a lot of documentation about services and the real eureka moment was when I realized it was more or less just a command being run with extra fluff around it like environment variables and such. I have the service placed in the /etc/systemd/system directory, where all the other ones valve made are. I have seen how powerful systemd can be when leveraged well but for the moment I’m pleased with the results. Thanks for the encouragement!
  
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  - CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No problem!
    
    I hacked this together instead of going to sleep, so it might make your deck explode, but maybe it’s a starting point for you or someone else:
    
    # home-deck-mounts.mount # # Mount units must be named after the destination path, this / replaced by -, like above # # This is a template unit. # That's explained here: https://fedoramagazine.org/systemd-template-unit-files/ # TL;DR: run it like this `netmount@linuxisos.mount` if you want to mount the subdirectory "linuxisos" from SHARE_PATH [Unit] Description=NetMount %I After=graphical.target # This is commented out, because it is implicit for network mounts https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.mount.html#Default%20Dependencies # I keep it here as an example #After=network-online.target #Requires=network-online.target [Mount] # %i expands to what ever you put after the @ when starting/activating the service What=10.10.10.99:/mnt/user/%i Where=/home/deck/mounts/%i Type=nfs Options=exec [Install] WantedBy=default.target
    
    I couldn’t confirm if mount units are allowed to be template units, but if not, just duplicate the service for each path and replace %i.
    
    Say the word if you run into issues!
    
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