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MilanKnizek

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Registered: 2005-12-13

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[SOLVED] Force systemd to re-read fstab and create automount units?

Anybody has a clue how to do that without rebooting the computer?

"Mounts listed in /etc/fstab will be converted into native units dynamically at boot and when the configuration of the system manager is reloaded."

P.S. If the latter means issueing "systemctl reload-daemon", it does not work. I guess the "and" does not really mean "reboot & reload", that'd be crazy.

cheers!
Milan

Last edited by MilanKnizek (2015-05-05 19:41:47)

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WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Force systemd to re-read fstab and create automount units?

I imagine (not tested) that you can just re-run /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-fstab-generator

See

man systemd-fstab-generator

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MilanKnizek

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Re: [SOLVED] Force systemd to re-read fstab and create automount units?

Thanks for pointing to that. I tried it already before, though. No new automount unit was created (checked with "systemctl list-units --all"). Tested on new samba entry in /etc/fstab.

Last edited by MilanKnizek (2015-01-31 16:39:03)

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Spider.007

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Re: [SOLVED] Force systemd to re-read fstab and create automount units?

I have tried this and failed. It doesn't seem to be possible. I resorted to a manual loop over the fstab; checking for each path if it's mounted already

starfry

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Re: [SOLVED] Force systemd to re-read fstab and create automount units?

If you run the generator as described above, it writes to /tmp which is not what you want. You need to give it 3 arguments:

/usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-fstab-generator /run/systemd/generator '' ''

works for me. You will see errors for all existing generated units; you can ignore these. You don't need to do systemctl daemon-reload.

Last edited by starfry (2015-02-09 10:07:05)

MilanKnizek

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Re: [SOLVED] Force systemd to re-read fstab and create automount units?

@starfry: thanks for the info.

P.S. Interestingly google did not help much, systemd still seems to fall short on tutorials. I'll report a bug on that to systemd.

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edacval

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Registered: 2008-10-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Force systemd to re-read fstab and create automount units?

First:

# systemctl daemon-reload

followed by:

# systemctl restart remote-fs.target

or

# systemctl restart local-fs.target

depending on filesystem type

MilanKnizek

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Re: [SOLVED] Force systemd to re-read fstab and create automount units?

First:

# systemctl daemon-reload

followed by:

# systemctl restart remote-fs.target

or

# systemctl restart local-fs.target

depending on filesystem type

Thanks, that was it!

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millerl

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Registered: 2008-03-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Force systemd to re-read fstab and create automount units?

Thank you edacval!

I can't believe this was so easy to address and yet so hard to find.