systemd-mount, systemd-umount — Establish and destroy transient mount or auto-mount points
systemd-mount
[OPTIONS
...] WHAT
[WHERE
]
systemd-mount
[OPTIONS
...] --list
systemd-mount
[OPTIONS
...] --umount
WHAT|WHERE
...
systemd-mount may be used to create and start a transient .mount
or
.automount
unit of the file system WHAT
on the mount point
WHERE
.
In many ways, systemd-mount is similar to the lower-level mount(8) command, however instead of executing the mount operation directly and immediately, systemd-mount schedules it through the service manager job queue, so that it may pull in further dependencies (such as parent mounts, or a file system checker to execute a priori), and may make use of the auto-mounting logic.
The command takes either one or two arguments. If only one argument is specified it should refer to a block
device or regular file containing a file system (e.g. "/dev/sdb1
" or
"/path/to/disk.img
"). If it is a block device, which is then probed for a label and other
metadata, and is mounted to a directory whose name is generated from the label. In this mode the block device must
exist at the time of invocation of the command, so that it may be probed. If the device is found to be a removable
block device (e.g. a USB stick) an automount point instead of a regular mount point is created (i.e. the
--automount=
option is implied, see below).
If two arguments are specified the first indicates the mount source (the WHAT
) and
the second indicates the path to mount it on (the WHERE
). In this mode no probing of the
source is attempted, and a backing device node doesn't have to exist yet. However, if this mode is combined with
--discover
, device node probing for additional metadata is enabled, and – much like in the
single-argument case discussed above – the specified device has to exist at the time of invocation of the
command.
Use the --list
command to show a terse table of all local, known block devices with file
systems that may be mounted with this command.
systemd-umount can be used to unmount a mount or automount point. It is the same
as systemd-mount --umount
.
The following options are understood:
--no-block
¶Do not synchronously wait for the requested operation to finish. If this is not specified, the job will be verified, enqueued and systemd-mount will wait until the mount or automount unit's start-up is completed. By passing this argument, it is only verified and enqueued.
--no-pager
¶Do not pipe output into a pager.
--no-ask-password
¶Do not query the user for authentication for privileged operations.
--quiet
, -q
¶Suppresses additional informational output while running.
--discover
¶Enable probing of the mount source. This switch is implied if a single argument is specified on the command line. If passed, additional metadata is read from the device to enhance the unit to create. For example, a descriptive string for the transient units is generated from the file system label and device model. Moreover if a removable block device (e.g. USB stick) is detected an automount unit instead of a regular mount unit is created, with a short idle time-out, in order to ensure the file-system is placed in a clean state quickly after each access.
--type=
, -t
¶Specifies the file system type to mount (e.g. "vfat
", "ext4
",
…). If omitted (or set to "auto
") the file system is determined automatically.
--options=
, -o
¶Additional mount options for the mount point.
--owner=USER
¶Let the specified user USER
own the mounted file system.
This is done by appending uid=
and gid=
options to the list
of mount options. Only certain file systems support this option.
--fsck=
¶Takes a boolean argument, defaults to on. Controls whether to run a file system check
immediately before the mount operation. In the automount case (see --automount=
below) the
check will be run the moment the first access to the device is made, which might slightly delay the
access.
--description=
¶Provide a description for the mount or automount unit. See Description=
in
systemd.unit(5).
--property=
, -p
¶Sets a unit property for the mount unit that is created. This takes an assignment in the same format as systemctl(1)'s set-property command.
--automount=
¶Takes a boolean argument. Controls whether to create an automount point or a regular mount
point. If true an automount point is created that is backed by the actual file system at the time of first
access. If false a plain mount point is created that is backed by the actual file system immediately. Automount
points have the benefit that the file system stays unmounted and hence in clean state until it is first
accessed. In automount mode the --timeout-idle-sec=
switch (see below) may be used to ensure
the mount point is unmounted automatically after the last access and an idle period passed.
If this switch is not specified it defaults to false. If not specified and --discover
is
used (or only a single argument passed, which implies --discover
, see above), and the file
system block device is detected to be removable, it is set to true, in order to increase the chance that the
file system is in a fully clean state if the device is unplugged abruptly.
-A
¶Equivalent to --automount=yes
.
--timeout-idle-sec=
¶Takes a time value that controls the idle timeout in automount mode. If set to
"infinity
" (the default) no automatic unmounts are done. Otherwise the file system backing the
automount point is detached after the last access and the idle timeout passed. See
systemd.time(7) for details on
the time syntax supported. This option has no effect if only a regular mount is established, and automounting
is not used.
Note that if --discover
is used (or only a single argument passed, which implies
--discover
, see above), and the file system block device is detected to be removable,
--timeout-idle-sec=1s
is implied.
--automount-property=
¶Similar to --property=
, but applies additional properties to the automount
unit created, instead of the mount unit.
--bind-device=
¶Takes a boolean argument, defaults to off. This option only has an effect in automount mode, and controls whether the automount unit shall be bound to the backing device's lifetime. If enabled, the automount point will be removed automatically when the backing device vanishes. If disabled the automount point stays around, and subsequent accesses will block until backing device is replugged. This option has no effect in case of non-device mounts, such as network or virtual file system mounts.
Note that if --discover
is used (or only a single argument passed, which implies
--discover
, see above), and the file system block device is detected to be removable, this
option is implied.
--list
¶Instead of establishing a mount or automount point, print a terse list of block devices
containing file systems that may be mounted with "systemd-mount
", along with useful metadata
such as labels, etc.
-u
, --umount
¶Stop the mount and automount units corresponding to the specified mount points
WHERE
or the devices WHAT
.
systemd-mount with this option or systemd-umount can take multiple arguments
which can be mount points, devices, /etc/fstab
style node names, or backing files
corresponding to loop devices, like
systemd-mount --umount /path/to/umount /dev/sda1 UUID=xxxxxx-xxxx LABEL=xxxxx /path/to/disk.img.
Note that when -H
or -M
is specified, only absolute paths to mount points are
supported.
-G
, --collect
¶Unload the transient unit after it completed, even if it failed. Normally, without this option,
all mount units that mount and failed are kept in memory until the user explicitly resets their failure state with
systemctl reset-failed or an equivalent command. On the other hand, units that stopped
successfully are unloaded immediately. If this option is turned on the "garbage collection" of units is more
aggressive, and unloads units regardless if they exited successfully or failed. This option is a shortcut for
--property=CollectMode=inactive-or-failed, see the explanation for
CollectMode=
in
systemd.unit(5) for further
information.
--user
¶Talk to the service manager of the calling user, rather than the service manager of the system.
--system
¶Talk to the service manager of the system. This is the implied default.
-H
, --host=
¶Execute the operation remotely. Specify a hostname, or a
username and hostname separated by "@
", to
connect to. The hostname may optionally be suffixed by a
container name, separated by ":
", which
connects directly to a specific container on the specified
host. This will use SSH to talk to the remote machine manager
instance. Container names may be enumerated with
machinectl -H
HOST
.
-M
, --machine=
¶Execute operation on a local container. Specify a container name to connect to.
-h
, --help
¶--version
¶If --discover
is used, systemd-mount honors a couple of additional udev
properties of block devices: