On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 11:03 PM Phillip Susi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Someone in #debian mentioned to me that they were getting some odd > errors in their logs when running gparted. It seems that several years > ago there was someone with a problem caused by systemd auto mounting > filesystems in response to udev events triggered by gparted, and so as a > workaround, gparted masks all mount units. Curtis Gedeck and I can't > seem to figure out now, why this was needed because we can't seen to get > systemd to automatically mount a filesystem just because it's device is > hot plugged. Are there any circumstances under which systemd will mount > a filesystem when it's device is hotplugged? > Yes, in nearly all older systemd versions, if a fstab entry had 'auto' then its generated .mount unit was automatically inserted into the corresponding .device's Wants= list. (Which IMHO was quite useful with 'auto,nofail' combined.) This was removed in systemd v242. -- Mantas Mikulėnas
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