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JasonX

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Registered: 2016-02-28

Posts: 7

Mount partition on login

Hello

Lets say I have a partition for Music and I want to mount it on ~/Music, I'm currently mounting it on fstab using an absolute path

/dev/sdax  /home/user/Music  etc

The problem is that I want it to be available on the ~/Music folder of every user who logs in.

Is it possible to mount a partition not on system start but instead when an user starts session / logs in?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,785

Re: Mount partition on login

Is it that you don't want to mount it until it is needed? Or that it needs to be in the user's $HOME directory?

The obvious answer for the second one is to mount it somewhere, perhaps on a new mount point called /home/Music, and then change the permissions so that all the users can access it (The solution on my system).  You could then create a soft link in each user's home directory back to that directory if the users really need it in their $HOME.  Or, you could get fancy and set up a bind mount

Last edited by ewaller (2016-07-26 15:51:01)

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