Automating DietPi configuration

General Discussion
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Howdy all,
I use DietPi for over a month now, running in a virtual machine on my NAS. Hosting Pi-Hole and Unbound.
Plan was initially to use DietPi on my Rasp3B, but wanted to test in a VM first and I kept it running like this so far. I will install on the RPi soon anyway now I’m familiar with the system.
I’m experimenting with automated deployment, works fine so far and I will test soon executing the post installation script.

In that context, I have some questions about automating NFS mounts and how to leverage Drive Manager.
First of all, I only see one NFS mount at a time in DM, is that expected? I see 2 entries temporarily in fstab file, but it seems only the most recent will be kept eventually.
I didn’t see any option to run Drive Manager with options from CLI, only interactively. Is there anything foreseen to allow it?
Also, in the scope of automating, is it a good practice to add entries in fstab, or should network mounts happen through DM only?

Thank you, and long life to DietPi!

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Drive manager is doing nothing else than creating entries within /etc/fstab. Ok in case of samba or nfs, it will install related client packages in addition. However these client packages can be installed using dietpi-software automation as well.

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Thank you!
So basically I can script insertions into /etc/fstab, no need to bother with Drive Manager in that case. I can continue my experiments :slight_smile:

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Correct

5

Hi there,
Made some progress, just had an issue with the custom script because using CRLF from Windows instead of LF from Unix for the file.
I was wondering if the different variables set in dietpi.txt file can be used in the script, i.e. are they set as environment variables during execution? Or should I rather “grep” in dietpi.txt?

Thank you.

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nope you would need to grep them from the configuration file.