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# 99effsyno - a script for Synology
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DSM sucks. I hate it. I absolutely hate what it does to the underlying operating system. I hate how idiotic it is
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regarding mounts. I hate how things are it's way. I mostly hate it because I didn't ask for pay for these features
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and they seemingly give you no way of telling them to GTFO.
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99effsyno is just a couple of things that make the synology do *the absolute minimum* I expect to be able to do. It's
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name comes from the shell script used to achieve this; 99 is just an execution priority, effsyno is fuck synology....
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because fuck DSM.
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## What sucks
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I have a USB enclosure that holds a lot of disks. By default...Synology mounts any valid partition to
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`/volumeUSB*n*/usbshare` where *n* is the number assigned. It then automatically creates a samba share configuration
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that shares it as usbshare*n*...where *n* is once again the drive number.
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This is all you're given. You cannot rename the share in DSM, you cannot move it.
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To complicate this, while I can achieve exactly what I want to do through standard command line hacking, these changes
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don't persist between reboots. The two biggies are `/etc/fstab` and samba configurations are generated dynamically. So
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the idea of just adding the UUID to `/etc/fstab` and modding `/etc/samba/smb.share.conf` the usual way are out.
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## Other Oddities
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They seem to have a lof of abstraction between you and the hardware. My internal RAID1 is actually LVM2 on /dev/md2. This
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sucks because it adds another layer of useless complexity if I want to remount this later. I mean it can be done...I just
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have to look all that up. It's going to happen...I'm not sticking with this hardware for long.
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I also noticed that even manual mounts from command line have a systemd service created for them. No...I want out.
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## The Hack
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While it generates a lot of configs and wipes directories out on boot, I did find one little trick that still worked:
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`/usr/local/etc/rc.d` - We can stick shell scripts here, they'll run at boot, and they'll persist between reboots.
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There are two files: `99effsyno.sh` and `smb.sh`. The `smb.sh` file is not actually a script. I only gave it the .sh filename
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to ensure it didn't get deleted. This is actually our replacement samba configuration. *This file should not be +x!*
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The original varient had a simple exit routine and tail command to output just the .conf; this is easier.
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`99effsyno.sh` is the executable script that does the following:
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* mounts the external drives by UUID to points I specify
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* replaces the samba share configuration
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* reboots samba
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## At Your Own Risk
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Don't do this. I'm not taking responsibility and Synology will tell you to GTFO and never give you support again.
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