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automatic bind mount/unmount
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Assuming that OP is using the term correctly, a bind mount is where you have a second "copy" of a mount somewhere else on the filesystem (like, you use
mount --bind). So he might specifically want two mountpoints for the mount. I don't use KDE, but I don't know if they do that with whatever system they have going on.Oh yeah, you're correct. I misinterpreted that. If @linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de really does mean a bind mount, then I'm guessing it will require systemd. That can act upon the appearance of a file/folder and trigger another unit. In this case that would be a mount. Upon disappearance the reverse could happen.
I don't know of a user-friendly way to do it, but if OP is talking about real bind mounts, they aren't a normal user anymore and this is a very specific usecase.
Yeah, and you may very well be giving him the right answer; he very well may be just be accidentally using the term, and actually thinking of a regular mount. I gave a response specific to bind mounts as a top level comment.
EDIT: Yeah, he put a portion of his fstab up there
he's after honest-to-God bind mounts (or at least, that's what he's presently using).
I think systemctl might be a way because I have read that things are dependent on other things but beyond that I don't know how to organize it.