Mounting drives and shares

Using mount command

mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdrive

# mount a drive
UUID=<uuid>	/backup	 ext4    defaults 0 0

# mount a smb share
//xxx.xxx.x.x/ShareName			/backup		cifs	rw,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/etc/smbclient.conf		0	0

And put your credentials in /etc/smbclient.conf

username=user
password=pass

Structure of the file:

<File system>   <mnt>   <type fs>   <options>   <dump>  <pass>

It could be the path to the device like /dev/sda1 or the UUID of the drive (more reliable), you can get it with lsblk

It's the path where you want to mount your device. It could be anything like /mnt/backup or /home for example.

It's the partition of your drive like (ext4, fat32, ...)

auto: The fs will be mount during startup or when you use mount -a
noauto: The fs must be manually mounted
exec: Allow file execution
noexec: Disallow file execution
ro: Allow read only
rw: Allow read and write
sync: Synchronous interaction with the fs
async: Asynchronous interaction with the fs
user: Any user can mount it
nouser: Only root can mount it
suid: Allow suid & sgid bit operations
nosuid: Disallow suid & sgid bit operations
defaults: equivalent to rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,nouser,async
noatime: Don't update file access time
nodiratime: Don't update directory access time
relatime: Only update file access time if this one is before the new file access time

Use by dump. It can be 0 or 1. If 0, dump will ignore it.

Use by fschk. Can be 2 enable fschk to check it or 0 to ignore it. 1 is reserved for root partition

Last-Updated: 2022-08-15