# How to add manual entries for sshfs in fstab

**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/how-to-add-manual-entries-for-sshfs-in-fstab/4201
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [14 June 2020 00:06 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/how-to-add-manual-entries-for-sshfs-in-fstab/4201 "2020-06-14T00:06:38Z")
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#### Post date: [14 June 2020 00:06 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/how-to-add-manual-entries-for-sshfs-in-fstab/4201/1 "2020-06-14T00:06:38Z")

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Hi, first, thanks for the great dietpi!

TL;DR - How can I add manual /etc/fstab entries that aren’t removed by dietpi-drive\_manager?

Long story -  
I tried to use SMB to mount from dietpi to an nvidia shield, for radarr and sonarr on dietpi, to plex on shield. I ran into both a mono 6 bug not allowing movies to be copied/imported into radarr/sonarr, and also ran into the shield’s smb server RIP-ing after a long period of time (days), needing a shield reboot to get it back to life.

I found an ssh server on the google play store that also supports sshfs (sftp). After installing sshfs (fuse) on dietpi, mounting manually and testing radarr/sonarr, I found this to be a working solution for me to mount a drive on the shield from dietpi.

The problem is, that my manual sshfs entry in /etc/fstab is removed any time I try to run dietpi-drive\_manager.  
Sample entry:  
USERNAME@SHIELD:/ /mnt/shieldproext fuse.sshfs \_netdev,noauto,x-systemd.automount,uid=dietpi,gid=dietpi,port=2222,reconnect,allow\_other,ServerAliveInterval=15,ServerAliveCountMax=3,ssh\_command=sshpass\040-f\040/root/.ssh/host.password\040ssh 0 0

Questions/requests:

1. Can dietpi-drive\_manager have support added for sshfs? Currently only smb and nfs exist for network that i can see. sshfs seems nice.
2. Since dietpi-drive\_manager does not support sshfs, how can I add something to /etc/fstab without dietpi-drive\_manager removing it?

Thanks in advance!

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