No opinions? I'll try clarify my request.
I have a XP box on which there are 4 drives formatted as NTFS that I need to mount on my openSUSE laptop. The XP box is on the same LAN and subnet as my openSUSE laptop. At the moment I have a script which I manually run to mount these remote filesystems. I'm looking for a way to automate this so they mount at boot.
I know I can just run the script at boot or login but I have a few concerns with how thngs are handles in the event of no network available.
- What happens if the path to the filesystem is not avaialble, e.g. I'm not connected to the network at the time of booting or login? I'm assuming the mount just fails without any further problems.
- What happens if I've mounted the remote filesystem and the network then fails? Will I get data corruption? What happens to the mounted filesystem? Do I need to unmount it? Is there an elegant way to automatically have the system handle such events?
I'm basically looking for the best practice for mounting remote NTFS filesystems reliably and safely.