Comment on Steam deck, Automount Network Share Library in Gamemode

• 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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