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I have a mobile computer which is, when in one of two places, connected to a hard disk. I would like to mount the hard disk, when present, at the same mount point; i.e. one or the other disk (never are both present) is mounted at the same location. I use at the moment two lines in the fstab

/dev/santafe-vg/additionalSpaceToSSD /home/frank/additionalSpaceLV ext4 defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=9 0 0 /dev/london-vg/additionalSpaceAF /home/frank/additionalSpaceLV ext4 defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=9 0 0

Which seem to work, but the solution does not convince me. What is the best solution?

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    What's wrong with the way you're doing it? Commented Mar 19, 2021 at 19:24
  • You can use systemd or udev, see freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.path.html or wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Mounting_drives_in_rules. I would not touch /etc/fstab in this topic. Commented Mar 19, 2021 at 19:49
  • Please add distro tag, thx. Commented Mar 19, 2021 at 19:49
  • I looked into your valuable suggestions but have the impression, that it will force a combination of udev rules (to mount the device) and systemd path is complicated (and with complex potential interactions). Do you know of an example to follow? Commented Mar 20, 2021 at 9:13
  • The current solution leads to a long wait (1min30 time-out) when booting - despite the timeout set. Why is the device-timeout not effective? Commented Mar 20, 2021 at 9:15

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