Mount

Mount point read only

Protect the moint point by setting the folder as read only. In case of mount failure, nothing can be written to the folder.:

chattr +i /mountpoint

Mount without root

When mounting shared folders such as samba shares, we don’t want them to be mounted when we don’t need them or when the server is not available, that is we don’t want to mount automatically at startup.

It’s still possible to use the mount command, but then root access is required.

There is a solution to have both advantages: mount pre-defined folders “on demand” without root access.

This is achieved by putting a corresponding entry in fstab and adding the option noauto.

Example of such an a fstab entry:

//server/share /mount/point cifs noauto,user 0 0