Fstab

The actual goal I wanted my QNAP and T620 shares to show up as normal folders in Dolphin on every machine I use, not something I connect to manually every session. Real mountpoints, mounted at boot, showing up as actual directories. Two different systems here, so two genuinely different setups … Fedora with a plain fstab, NixOS with a declarative config. Fedora side (JackSparrow2 itself) … the full block Step 1 … every mountpoint directory, created up front: ...

The advice everyone repeats without checking it Every “speed up your Linux install” guide tells you to slap noatime on every mount in /etc/fstab and call it a day. It’s not wrong exactly, but it’s not universally the win people treat it as either, and blindly copying it cost me nothing to try but also gave me nothing to gain on one of my own filesystems, for a reason worth actually understanding. ...