Failing to mount from fstab on boot, but can mount from command line about mergerfs HOT 5 CLOSED

Oh they're just fstab options, silly me...

It works! I put this in my fstab

x-systemd.requires-mounts-for=/mnt/hdd/M-Drive,x-systemd.requires-mounts-for=/mnt/hdd/MyBook

I don't really understand the difference between x-systemd.requires-mounts-for & x-systemd.requires, but this seems to be working.

I will have to play around to see if I can use wildcards with this too rather then having to enter each drive.

Thank you so much again!

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if the mount timeout isn't working then something about the setup is waiting for it.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.mount.html

Details on the settings.

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Look at your boot logs. You will likely see that those paths don't exist at boot. You are pointing to locations inside a mount point, correct? If mergerfs runs before them then naturally those paths won't exist. As mentioned in the docs the globbing happens at configure/start time. You must either use dependencies to force mergerfs to be mounted last or if your init system mounts things concurrently you can try the branches-mount-timeout option. The best bet is the former.

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Thank you for your dedication to support.

That makes sense and I think you are right. Using journalctl -b to get my most recent boot without using branches-mount-timeout, I see that the system tries to mount M-NAS about 2 seconds before the two other drives and I believe fails due to the directories not being MTP devices?

Feb 02 07:20:42 m-pi mtp-probe[337]: bus: 2, device: 2 was not an MTP device
Feb 02 07:20:42 m-pi mtp-probe[339]: bus: 1, device: 4 was not an MTP device

However, when I add in a 3 second delay with branches-mount-timeout, I see mergerfs wait, the system mounts the two external drives, but after 3 seconds I get these messages: boot_3s_delay.log

Feb 02 07:29:55 m-pi mergerfs[323]: /mnt/hdd/*/M-NAS not mounted within timeout
Feb 02 07:29:55 m-pi mergerfs[323]: Continuing to mount mergerfs despite 1 branches not being different from the mountpoint filesystem
Feb 02 07:29:55 m-pi mergerfs[505]: running basic garbage collection
Feb 02 07:29:55 m-pi mergerfs[505]: threadpool (fuse.read): spawning 4 threads w/ max queue depth 4
Feb 02 07:29:55 m-pi mergerfs[505]: read-thread-count=4; process-thread-count=-1; process-thread-queue-depth=-1; pin-threads=false;
Feb 02 07:29:55 m-pi systemd[1]: Mounted share-M\x2dNAS.mount - /share/M-NAS.

resulting in the drives not being merged. I tried 1,3,5,10,&20 seconds and got the same 'not mounted within timeout' message.

I have attached both logs. Thank you again so much for your help!

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Is this what you mean by dependencies? Where would I put this line?

https://askubuntu.com/a/1054394

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