In a Unix/Linux context, the term “automount” is often interpreted as the automatic on-demand mounting of devices or remote filesystems as soon as a controlled path is accessed: the actual mounting is deferred to the moment the path is first accessed. Or in other words: only when it is needed. But what if we want… Continue reading Automatic mounting of known removable media with systemd in non-graphical environments
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Let systemd automount NTFS partitions to ensure successful booting
On my laptop I use a dual-boot setup with a NTFS partition shared between Windows and Linux, containing eg. music. Because the Windows version installed is Windows 10, it could sometimes happen that, in spite of having turned off hybrid shutdown, ntfs-3g would refuse to mount the shared data partition because it was in an… Continue reading Let systemd automount NTFS partitions to ensure successful booting