Ansible Mount Options

An Ansible module which allows to easily add, remove or set mount options in /etc/fstab. The original mount-module in ansible only allows setting the whole mount option list. This can be troublesome when editing mount options of a partly-automated remote or when editing options from multiple roles.

Note that the scope of module only includes mount options. It does not support changing the file system type of a mount, nor does it support adding, removing or mounting mount points. Use the original ansible module for that.

Usage

# set the data-option to 'journal'
- mountopts:
    name: /
    option: data
    value: journal

# remove the 'noatime' from /home entirely
- mountopts:
    name: /home
    option: noatime
    state: absent

For more examples take a look at test/test.yml, which contains all possible use cases.

Installation

It is recommended to add this repository as a git submodule to your ansible project. The library/mountopts.py-file can then be symlinked into your library directory. Alternatively the library-setting of ansible can be used to point ansible to the submodule directly.

Dependencies

This module depends on the fstab-python-module, which needs to be installed separately on the remote machine:

- name: install dependencies for mountopts-module
  pip: name=fstab

Development

1. first get an virtualenv up and running: virtualenv venv --python=python2
2. activate the venv: source venv/bin/activate
3. install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
4. run the test-playbook in test: ansible-playbook test.yml
5. ???
6. profit!