Anyone here familiar with the GUI util "gnome disks" able to explain to me what exactly "mount at startup" means? rsync issues.
by wh33t from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6M24H)
So I have a 2TB drive that is set to mount at startup, I'm not sure this is actually happening.
I'm using Mint Cinnamon, 21.3.
When I open up the file manager and click on my 2TB drive it takes a moment to populate the drives contents, almost like it's mounting only when I try to view the files. Either way, that's not my main issue.
My main issue is that I want my computer to rsync the contents of a directory when my machine boots to a different machine on my LAN. I used to be able to do this quite easily with cron but it hasn't been working lately. So I tried creating a systemd service file and it also doesn't appear to be working and I think it's because this 2TB drive isn't actually mounted at "boot", rather I think it's mounted at "my user login" and thus both cron and systemd is failing to rsync the directory.
Tips? Suggestions? Please and thank you so much.
Ps. If I run the command used in the cron/systemd service manually from the terminal it runs just fine as expected.
I'm using Mint Cinnamon, 21.3.
When I open up the file manager and click on my 2TB drive it takes a moment to populate the drives contents, almost like it's mounting only when I try to view the files. Either way, that's not my main issue.
My main issue is that I want my computer to rsync the contents of a directory when my machine boots to a different machine on my LAN. I used to be able to do this quite easily with cron but it hasn't been working lately. So I tried creating a systemd service file and it also doesn't appear to be working and I think it's because this 2TB drive isn't actually mounted at "boot", rather I think it's mounted at "my user login" and thus both cron and systemd is failing to rsync the directory.
Tips? Suggestions? Please and thank you so much.
Ps. If I run the command used in the cron/systemd service manually from the terminal it runs just fine as expected.