Mount network share after VM is started up

[ffiala268]

Hello,
I'm looking into some way of mounting network shares to LXCs after VM boot up.
I have an Unraid VM on which all my data is stored. Then I have multiple unprivileged LXCs that are accessing those data by mount point - so they can remain unprivileged. So that means, the VM must be fully booted up and array started (takes approx 3 minutes) and then I need to mount network shares to the Proxmox host first (currently done in "/etc/fstab" via cifs). To do so, I need to manually connect to the Proxmox shell each time just to run "mount -a" for Proxmox host to attach the network shares. Then the containers can be started.
Is there any workaround so it can be automated without me doing anything if I need to restart / turn off and on the Proxmox or something like that? I looked through pages of google and didn't find anything easy enough for person inexperienced with linux commands and setup via shell...
Thanks!

 

[waltar]

Try option "_netdev" in your fstab line for the nfs mount.

 

[milew]

Try mountpoints

pct set 100 --mp[n] [volume=]<volume> ,mp=<Path> [,acl=<1|0>] [,backup=<1|0>] [,mountoptions=<opt[;opt...]>] [,quota=<1|0>] [,replicate=<1|0>] [,ro=<1|0>] [,shared=<1|0>] [,size=<DiskSize>]

 

[intrax]

You can use systemd automount to mount the shares when accessed.

Activate systemd.automount and mount the share in /etc/fstab like:

//pve-xpenology/Backup/kbackup /mnt/pve/kbackup cifs rw,relatime,cache=strict,credentials=/home/user/.smb-credentials,uid=1000,noforceuid,gid=1000,noforcegid,addr=192.168.1.999,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,soft,unix,serverino,mapposix,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=300  0  0

the x-systemd.idle-timeout=300 will unmount the share after the idle period has passed!

 

[ffiala268]

Hello guys,

First of thank you for all responses, didn't have much time to thinker with it in the past days unfortunatelly...
I tried intraxes automount method as it's closest to my setup using cifs mount and it works like a charm. Added only one of the commands though - "x-systemd.automount" - as I don't really know what the few other ones do and I don't want it to be automatically unmounted after a timeout period.

Many thanks for help, really apprechiate it!

Wish everyone a nice day!