This service will use the same remote name you specified when using rclone config create
. If you haven't done that yet, do so now.
Next, create the mountpoint for your remote. The service uses the location ~/mnt/<remote>
by default.
mkdir ~/mnt/dropbox
The --allow-other
option is required in order to work in many desktop environments. This flag must be enabled by adding user_allow_other
to /etc/fuse.conf
. If you aren't using a desktop environment, such as on a server, this option can be omitted.
Save the rclone@.service
file in ~/.config/systemd/user/
Make sure you include the @
. This is required to work.
As your normal user, run:
systemctl --user daemon-reload
You can now start/enable each remote by using rclone@<remote>
systemctl --user enable --now rclone@dropbox
That's just systemd taking the description from line 11 and saying it couldn't start it.
Try copying the command on lines 20 through 28 and running it directly in the terminal. You'll need to replace the values
%h
with the path to your home directory and%i
with the name of the remote when you do this