Mounting the own samba share automatically / Photos and Videos collection for Digikam

[Mirdarthos]

You could also consider a bind mount. Whether you do it VIA systemd or fstab, you can automount it. I have quite a few of those:

$lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0   3.6T  0 disk
└─sda1        8:1    0   3.6T  0 part /mnt/4tb_backup
sdb           8:16   0   4.5T  0 disk
└─sdb1        8:17   0   4.5T  0 part /home/mirdarthos/virtualbox
/home/mirdarthos/Video
/home/mirdarthos/Pictures
/home/mirdarthos/Music
/home/mirdarthos/KeePass
/home/mirdarthos/Documents
/mnt/5TB
nvme0n1     259:0    0 232.9G  0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   500M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0   7.8G  0 part [SWAP]
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 224.6G  0 part /

See

[root tip] [How To] Use systemd to mount ANY device

Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ Disk device recognition Manjaro uses udev (see Arch Wiki) to load devices at boot time. The loading of devices is arbitrary and therefore you cannot predict which device will be available at a given path. But static device names do exist and you can assign specific locations to your device and thus ensure e.g. scripts will work as expected. What to learn Overview of system mount units Structure and Content of a mount unit Mount at boot (immediate mount) Mount on demand (m…

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[root tip] [How To] systemd mount unit samples

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ Example mount units for systemd The examples here are a supplement to the guide on systemd mount units Remember to remove the comments placed in the units - they are not writing for copy-paste but as examples. (comments is text beginning with a #) [root tip] [How To] Use systemd to mount ANY device Only use an automount unit if the device is not readily available at boot like removable devices and network locations. Important rule …

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@marcellino

Maybe you can explain me using my case as an example?

@marcellino

Maybe you can explain me using my case as an example?

a Symlink is just a “shortcut” to a file or directory. You link a destination to a source. I don’t know where the “sym” part comes in.

Edit #2:

Indeed, see here:

If you use Windows, you’ll recognize the function of a symbolic link in the structure called a “shortcut” – a text string that your OS automatically interprets and follows, pointing to another file or directory; this allows one file or directory to refer to another, on the same disk or different disks.

This is different from simply making a copy of the target file or directory because it doesn’t take up hardly any space, and instead of then having two different copies of the file, opening the symlink opens the target instead, and any changes are propagated to that target.