Strahil: I WAS using that, but the automatic umount never worked, leaving it mounted all the time. I commented out those entries in /etc/auto.master before modifying the fstab entry: UUID=259ec5ea-e8a4-465a-9263-1c06217b9aaf /mnt/backup ext4,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=15min noauto 0 2 which is exactly as it was before except for the x-systemd entries as you described. and the peculiar thing is it STILL does not automount. and yes, I did do systemctl restart local-fs.target. do I need to reboot (or something simpler, maybe) to fully disable the auto.master stuff? Thanks again! Fred On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 5:54 AM Strahil Nikolov via CentOS <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Fred, > > do you use automatic umount for the map in /etc/auto.master (--timeout) ? > > If yes, then the systemd mount options probably won't help. > > Best Regards, > Strahil Nikolov > > > > > > > > > В неделя, 3 януари 2021 г., 04:27:17 Гринуич+2, Fred < > fred.fredex@xxxxxxxxx> написа: > > > > > > Yeah, and the instructions for setting RAID-1 or RAID-0 have the switch > positions exactly reversed. > > Strahil: I'm using autofs to automount the unit. but just turned that off > and enabled the xsystemd.automount in fstab, we'll see how that works. > > Fred > > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 4:11 PM Warren Young <warren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Jan 2, 2021, at 11:17 AM, Fred <fred.fredex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I assume that the yottamaster device runs Linux, just like 99% of other > > > such devices. > > > > 99% of NAS boxes, maybe, but not dumb RAID boxes like the one I believe > > you’re referring to. > > > > (And I doubt even that, with the likes of FreeNAS extending down from the > > enterprise space where consumer volume can affect that sort of thing.) > > > > I have more than speculation to back that guess: the available firmware > > images are far too small to contain a Linux OS image, their manuals don’t > > talk about Linux or GPL that I can see, and there’s no place to download > > their Linux source code per the GPL. > > > > While doing this exploration, I’ve run into multiple problems with their > > web site, which strengthens my suspicion that this box is your culprit. > If > > they’re this slipshod with their marketing material, what does that say > > about their engineering department? > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos