systemd.mount(5)


NAME

   systemd.mount - Mount unit configuration

SYNOPSIS

   mount.mount

DESCRIPTION

   A unit configuration file whose name ends in ".mount" encodes
   information about a file system mount point controlled and supervised
   by systemd.

   This man page lists the configuration options specific to this unit
   type. See systemd.unit(5) for the common options of all unit
   configuration files. The common configuration items are configured in
   the generic [Unit] and [Install] sections. The mount specific
   configuration options are configured in the [Mount] section.

   Additional options are listed in systemd.exec(5), which define the
   execution environment the mount(8) binary is executed in, and in
   systemd.kill(5), which define the way the processes are terminated, and
   in systemd.resource-control(5), which configure resource control
   settings for the processes of the service. Note that the User= and
   Group= options are not particularly useful for mount units specifying a
   "Type=" option or using configuration not specified in /etc/fstab;
   mount(8) will refuse options that are not listed in /etc/fstab if it is
   not run as UID 0.

   Mount units must be named after the mount point directories they
   control. Example: the mount point /home/lennart must be configured in a
   unit file home-lennart.mount. For details about the escaping logic used
   to convert a file system path to a unit name, see systemd.unit(5). Note
   that mount units cannot be templated, nor is possible to add multiple
   names to a mount unit by creating additional symlinks to it.

   Optionally, a mount unit may be accompanied by an automount unit, to
   allow on-demand or parallelized mounting. See systemd.automount(5).

   Mount points created at runtime (independently of unit files or
   /etc/fstab) will be monitored by systemd and appear like any other
   mount unit in systemd. See /proc/self/mountinfo description in proc(5).

   Some file systems have special semantics as API file systems for
   kernel-to-userspace and userspace-to-userspace interfaces. Some of them
   may not be changed via mount units, and cannot be disabled. For a
   longer discussion see API File Systems[1].

AUTOMATIC DEPENDENCIES

   If a mount unit is beneath another mount unit in the file system
   hierarchy, both a requirement dependency and an ordering dependency
   between both units are created automatically.

   Block device backed file systems automatically gain BindsTo= and After=
   type dependencies on the device unit encapsulating the block device
   (see below).

   If traditional file system quota is enabled for a mount unit, automatic
   Wants= and Before= dependencies on systemd-quotacheck.service and
   quotaon.service are added.

   For mount units with DefaultDependencies=yes in the "[Unit]" section
   (the default) a couple additional dependencies are added. Mount units
   referring to local file systems automatically gain an After= dependency
   on local-fs-pre.target. Network mount units automatically acquire
   After= dependencies on remote-fs-pre.target, network.target and
   network-online.target. Towards the latter a Wants= unit is added as
   well. Mount units referring to local and network file systems are
   distinguished by their file system type specification. In some cases
   this is not sufficient (for example network block device based mounts,
   such as iSCSI), in which case _netdev may be added to the mount option
   string of the unit, which forces systemd to consider the mount unit a
   network mount. Mount units (regardless if local or network) also
   acquire automatic Before= and Conflicts= on umount.target in order to
   be stopped during shutdown.

   Additional implicit dependencies may be added as result of execution
   and resource control parameters as documented in systemd.exec(5) and
   systemd.resource-control(5).

FSTAB

   Mount units may either be configured via unit files, or via /etc/fstab
   (see fstab(5) for details). Mounts listed in /etc/fstab will be
   converted into native units dynamically at boot and when the
   configuration of the system manager is reloaded. In general,
   configuring mount points through /etc/fstab is the preferred approach.
   See systemd-fstab-generator(8) for details about the conversion.

   The NFS mount option bg for NFS background mounts as documented in
   nfs(5) is not supported in /etc/fstab entries. The systemd mount option
   nofail provides similar functionality and should be used instead.

   When reading /etc/fstab a few special mount options are understood by
   systemd which influence how dependencies are created for mount points.
   systemd will create a dependency of type Wants= or Requires (see option
   nofail below), from either local-fs.target or remote-fs.target,
   depending whether the file system is local or remote.

   x-systemd.requires=
       Configures a Requires= and an After= dependency between the created
       mount unit and another systemd unit, such as a device or mount
       unit. The argument should be a unit name, or an absolute path to a
       device node or mount point. This option may be specified more than
       once. This option is particularly useful for mount point
       declarations that need an additional device to be around (such as
       an external journal device for journal file systems) or an
       additional mount to be in place (such as an overlay file system
       that merges multiple mount points). See After= and Requires= in
       systemd.unit(5) for details.

   x-systemd.requires-mounts-for=
       Configures a RequiresMountsFor= dependency between the created
       mount unit and other mount units. The argument must be an absolute
       path. This option may be specified more than once. See
       RequiresMountsFor= in systemd.unit(5) for details.

   x-systemd.automount
       An automount unit will be created for the file system. See
       systemd.automount(5) for details.

   x-systemd.idle-timeout=
       Configures the idle timeout of the automount unit. See
       TimeoutIdleSec= in systemd.automount(5) for details.

   x-systemd.device-timeout=
       Configure how long systemd should wait for a device to show up
       before giving up on an entry from /etc/fstab. Specify a time in
       seconds or explicitly append a unit such as "s", "min", "h", "ms".

       Note that this option can only be used in /etc/fstab, and will be
       ignored when part of the Options= setting in a unit file.

   x-systemd.mount-timeout=
       Configure how long systemd should wait for the mount command to
       finish before giving up on an entry from /etc/fstab. Specify a time
       in seconds or explicitly append a unit such as "s", "min", "h",
       "ms".

       Note that this option can only be used in /etc/fstab, and will be
       ignored when part of the Options= setting in a unit file.

       See TimeoutSec= below for details.

   noauto, auto
       With noauto, this mount will not be added as a dependency for
       local-fs.target or remote-fs.target. This means that it will not be
       mounted automatically during boot, unless it is pulled in by some
       other unit. The auto option has the opposite meaning and is the
       default.

   nofail
       With nofail, this mount will be only wanted, not required, by
       local-fs.target or remote-fs.target. This means that the boot will
       continue even if this mount point is not mounted successfully.

   x-initrd.mount
       An additional filesystem to be mounted in the initramfs. See
       initrd-fs.target description in systemd.special(7).

   If a mount point is configured in both /etc/fstab and a unit file that
   is stored below /usr, the former will take precedence. If the unit file
   is stored below /etc, it will take precedence. This means: native unit
   files take precedence over traditional configuration files, but this is
   superseded by the rule that configuration in /etc will always take
   precedence over configuration in /usr.

OPTIONS

   Mount files must include a [Mount] section, which carries information
   about the file system mount points it supervises. A number of options
   that may be used in this section are shared with other unit types.
   These options are documented in systemd.exec(5) and systemd.kill(5).
   The options specific to the [Mount] section of mount units are the
   following:

   What=
       Takes an absolute path of a device node, file or other resource to
       mount. See mount(8) for details. If this refers to a device node, a
       dependency on the respective device unit is automatically created.
       (See systemd.device(5) for more information.) This option is
       mandatory.

   Where=
       Takes an absolute path of a directory of the mount point. If the
       mount point does not exist at the time of mounting, it is created.
       This string must be reflected in the unit filename. (See above.)
       This option is mandatory.

   Type=
       Takes a string for the file system type. See mount(8) for details.
       This setting is optional.

   Options=
       Mount options to use when mounting. This takes a comma-separated
       list of options. This setting is optional.

   SloppyOptions=
       Takes a boolean argument. If true, parsing of the options specified
       in Options= is relaxed, and unknown mount options are tolerated.
       This corresponds with mount(8)'s -s switch. Defaults to off.

   LazyUnmount=
       Takes a boolean argument. If true, detach the filesystem from the
       filesystem hierarchy at time of the unmount operation, and clean up
       all references to the filesystem as soon as they are not busy
       anymore. This corresponds with umount(8)'s -l switch. Defaults to
       off.

   ForceUnmount=
       Takes a boolean argument. If true, force an unmount (in case of an
       unreachable NFS system). This corresponds with umount(8)'s -f
       switch. Defaults to off.

   DirectoryMode=
       Directories of mount points (and any parent directories) are
       automatically created if needed. This option specifies the file
       system access mode used when creating these directories. Takes an
       access mode in octal notation. Defaults to 0755.

   TimeoutSec=
       Configures the time to wait for the mount command to finish. If a
       command does not exit within the configured time, the mount will be
       considered failed and be shut down again. All commands still
       running will be terminated forcibly via SIGTERM, and after another
       delay of this time with SIGKILL. (See KillMode= in
       systemd.kill(5).) Takes a unit-less value in seconds, or a time
       span value such as "5min 20s". Pass 0 to disable the timeout logic.
       The default value is set from the manager configuration file's
       DefaultTimeoutStartSec= variable.

   Check systemd.exec(5) and systemd.kill(5) for more settings.

SEE ALSO

   systemd(1), systemctl(1), systemd.unit(5), systemd.exec(5),
   systemd.kill(5), systemd.resource-control(5), systemd.service(5),
   systemd.device(5), proc(5), mount(8), systemd-fstab-generator(8),
   systemd.directives(7)

NOTES

    1. API File Systems
       http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems





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