<title>Description</title>
<para>A unit configuration file whose name ends in
- .mount encodes information about a file system mount
- point controlled and supervised by systemd.</para>
+ <filename>.mount</filename> encodes information about
+ a file system mount point controlled and supervised by
+ systemd.</para>
<para>This man page lists the configuration options
specific to this unit type. See
in the [Mount] section.</para>
<para>Additional options are listed in
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ which define the execution environment the
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ binary is executed in.</para>
- <para>Mount units must be named after the file paths
- they reflect. Example: the mount point
+ <para>Mount units must be named after the mount point
+ directories they control. Example: the mount point
<filename>/home/lennart</filename> must be configured
in a unit file
<filename>home-lennart.mount</filename>. For details
about the escaping logic used to convert a file system
path to a unit name see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+
+ <para>Optionally, a mount unit may be accompanied by
+ an automount unit, to allow on-demand or parallelized
+ mounting. See
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.automount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+
+ <para>If an mount point is beneath another mount point
+ in the file system hierarchy, a dependency between both
+ units is created automatically.</para>
+
+ <para>Mount points created at runtime independent on
+ unit files or <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> will be
+ monitored by systemd and appear like any other mount
+ unit in systemd.</para>
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which influence how dependencies are created for mount
points from <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>. If
<option>comment=systemd.mount</option> is specified as
- mount option then systemd will create a dependency of
+ mount option, then systemd will create a dependency of
type <option>Wants</option> from either
<filename>local-fs.target</filename> or
<filename>remote-fs.target</filename>, depending
for details.</para>
<para>If a mount point is configured in both
- <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> and a unit file the
+ <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> and a unit file, the
configuration in the latter takes precedence.</para>
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this section are shared with other unit types. These
options are documented in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. The
- options specific to the [Mount] section of service
+ options specific to the [Mount] section of mount
units are the following:</para>
<variablelist>
resource to mount. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details. If this refers to a
- device node a dependency on the
+ device node, a dependency on the
respective device unit is
automatically created. (See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.device</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information.)
<listitem><para>Takes an absolute path
of a directory of the mount point. If
the mount point is not existing at
- time of mounting it is created. This
+ time of mounting, it is created. This
string must be reflected in the unit
file name. (See above.) This option is
mandatory.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Mount options to use
when mounting. This takes a comma
- seperated list of options. This
+ separated list of options. This
setting is optional.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
are automatically created if
needed. This option specifies the file
system access mode used when creating
- these directories. Defaults to
+ these directories. Takes an access
+ mode in octal notation. Defaults to
0755.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term><varname>TimeoutSec=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Configures the time to
wait for the mount command to
- finish. If a comand does not exit
+ finish. If a command does not exit
within the configured time the mount
will be considered failed and be shut
down again. All commands still running
processes of this mount shall be
killed. One of
<option>control-group</option>,
- <option>process-group</option>,
<option>process</option>,
<option>none</option>.</para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>KillSignal=</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Specifies which signal
+ to use when killing a process of this
+ mount. Defaults to SIGTERM.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>SendSIGKILL=</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Specifies whether to
+ send SIGKILL to remaining processes
+ after a timeout, if the normal
+ shutdown procedure left processes of
+ the mount around. Takes a boolean
+ value. Defaults to "yes".
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
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<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,