"fstab" editor for normal humans

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HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:05 PM

@nickname lets continue the discussion here, maybe get to brainstorm one day when i dont need to focus on the other tasks i put on myself :p

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:06 PM

loool if you ever feel like you want to procrastinate on other tasks, then this exists. like i said i am wiling to help you on this any way i can

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:06 PM

i love this idea

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:06 PM

my idea would be to to ignore any devices in /etc/fstab
all other devices can be found from probing /dev/disk/by-id/
this will show the disk and serial number so it will help people identify the right disks too

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:07 PM

that's a good plan actually

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:08 PM

wanna add this here too:

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:08 PM

so we have everything in 1 place

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:08 PM

yeah but it is going to be hell to implement since i need to check fstab then check all the /dev/disk nodes for which disk is what and exclude them then probe again

Noel•1/11/24, 4:09 PM

So to clarify, what is the goal here?

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:10 PM

have any secondary drives automount at startup

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:10 PM

a simplified way for normal people to just get automounting secondary drives working

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:10 PM

since the kde partition ui is kinda trash for it and normal users just need common options

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:11 PM

telling users to edit fstab, use systemd.mount, or messing around with kde partition manager hasn't been too successful

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:12 PM

gnome disks works well but that only comes preinstalled on gnome, so when a kde user asks it seems a little bizarre to go: 'yeah layer

gnome-disk-utility

gnome-disk-utility

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:12 PM

but that GUI is the most simplified way of doing that out of the other 3 choices

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:13 PM

yeah so i figured i might look into making something in golang that lets you add systemd mount units for disks that you have not added to /etc/fstab

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:13 PM

and it will have tailored options that are generic and the most commonly needed like compression for btrfs and the ssd flags and such (and subvolume)

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:14 PM

for ext4 i need to remember what the normal options are

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:14 PM

and for ntfs just make sure stuff will be readable and executable and such

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:14 PM

and that should cover like 80% of the usecases

HHikariKnight and for ntfs just make sure stuff will be readable and executable and such

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:15 PM

oh this might be a monster of a project

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:15 PM

i forgot about different filesystems

HHikariKnight and for ntfs just make sure stuff will be readable and executable and such

Noel•1/11/24, 4:16 PM

Also you will need packages for NTFS

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:16 PM

ntfs is supported out of the box

Ttryhardsoccermomswag oh this might be a monster of a project

Noel•1/11/24, 4:16 PM

Probably why no one has done it

HHikariKnight ntfs is supported out of the box

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:16 PM

oh yeah wait is this only going to be for bazzite or upstream ublue

NNoel Probably why no one has done it 😭

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:17 PM

perfect that the guy that tries to generalize and automate vfio for normal people is the one that will torture himself through it

Ttryhardsoccermomswag oh yeah wait is this only going to be for bazzite or upstream ublue

Noel•1/11/24, 4:17 PM

Ideally I would see this as an upstream project that any distro could use.

Ttryhardsoccermomswag oh yeah wait is this only going to be for bazzite or upstream ublue

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:18 PM

bazzite since it seems to be a bazzite "problem" mostly since we might not be allowed to add it to kinoite

NNoel Ideally I would see this as an upstream project that any distro could use.

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:18 PM

oh deffinitively

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:18 PM

but its in golang and some people are iffy about that

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:19 PM

i rather not make it in python and have to deal with those dependencies

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:19 PM

ok yeah i get it now. i only asked because of the NTFS packages that may have to be added and i dont think upstream wanted to add those dependencies

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:19 PM

especially since i know the qt framework meaning it would be pyqt or something

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:19 PM

but yeah any project can use it

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:20 PM

i rather so golang so i can learn something new

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:20 PM

and have it portable with minimum dependencies

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:20 PM

also these are the different things i need to test for ontop of /dev/nvme and /dev/sdX

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:21 PM

and the various ways to write it out in the fstab file

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:21 PM

joy

HikariKnight•1/11/24, 4:21 PM

it is a definitive not soon

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/11/24, 4:24 PM

it's not a priority. i might complain a lot but im not contributing much. ping me here for anything since i am interested in the project whenever you have anything new