Hi,

I'm trying to set up a fixed mount point for borg in /etc/fstab, as described here:

borg mount

To allow a regular user to use fstab entries, add the user option:

/path/to/repo /mnt/point fuse.borgfs defaults,noauto,user 0 0

So I did that and what I got was:

$ mount /mnt/point
/mnt/point: Mountpoint must be a writable directory

Okay, so I added a chown user:user /mnt/point to make the mount point owned by and thus writable for the user.

Now it's like:

$ mount /mnt/point
Error: Permission denied

And I'm stumped. Permission denied? Permission for what? Why can't error messages be more specific...

I can mount it successfully using borg mount /path/to/repo /mnt/point command, so all permissions should already be in order anyway. So I can work around the issue, but I would very much prefer to have the simple mount /mnt/point command work and have the fstab entry handle the borg side of things for me.

So I'm not sure where it fails. I tried to strace the mount command and I see it trying to create all sorts of files in /root/.config/... but I'm not sure if that's related to anything.

Anyone has any clue?

I'm using borg 1.1.17 in Arch Linux.