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it is possible to mount sshfs from fstab, so it will automatically mount on
boot. this is quite useful obviously, and i personally use it to mount my nas
with my music and media on.
firstly, you must make the fuse kernel module actually available from the
start, and this can be done by appending 'fuse' into /etc/modules, at least on
my alpine install.
then you will need to have a no password ssh key setup, which im not going to
explain here but isnt hard. whole point is to not want to enter stuff to have
it mount, we will inherently have to use this mildly insecure measure, at least
while keeping it simple.
the format inside /etc/fstab is roughly as follows, split up with newlines for
sake of readability.
tr -d '\n' <<'EOF'
[USER]@[ADDRESS]:[SRC PATH]
[MOUNT PATH]
fuse.sshfs
_netdev,follow_symlinks,idmap=user,identityfile=[KEYFILE],
allow_other,default_permissions,uid={id -u},gid={id -g}
0 0
EOF
_netdev: makes it a network mount
follow_symlinks: resolve symlinks while mounting, looks like a regular file
idmap: map the uid/gid to our ids
identityfile: the key to send to the server
allow_other: allow all users to access, ie our non-root user
default_permissions: make sshfs use default permissions
uid: set desired uid
gid: set desired gid