On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 13:07:11 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Strangely I had several difficult to try autofs .. This is not as simple as /etc/fstab. > Now I that I went more in depth,I can understand that autofs is made mainly > to be used in a net environment (NFS - file systems used in networks). Yes, but not only. > The purpose because I wont use autofs is different.. : Again, I'm almost sure you do not need it. > I wont only to mount an USB Hard Disk - permanently connected to > computer <in order to the back up of the data>. > The case that I am interested is not so much considered in current > "literature" <it is not the default use of autosf.> and so the information > that I collected couldn't be, perhaps, appropriate.. ... > I found only an article that consider explicitly the my case...: > *Automatically mount USB external drive with autofs > -https://linuxconfig.org/automatically-mount-usb-external-drive-with-autofs > This article suggest to use the file "node" in the directory /dev as name > for mounting the partitions... > ....This is another/different way to cope the problem... > If you are interested, give a look to this article, ... I read it already. > perhaps what I did til now (mounting directories instead i file node > in /dev directory) could be not the right procedure... You mounted (in /etc/fstab) using UUIDs, and that is a good practise. If you really want to test autofs try the following: Add in /etc/auto.master: -------------------------------- cut here -------------------------- /srv/ /etc/auto.ext-usb --timeout=10,defaults -------------------------------- cut here -------------------------- And create /etc/auto.ext-usb as: -------------------------------- cut here -------------------------- BKx_data-personal -fstype=ntfs :/dev/disk/by-uuid/376214F24CC07CE0 -------------------------------- cut here -------------------------- Then restart autofs.service and check that you see your partition under /srv/BKx_data-personal/ I reference the partition by its UUID, knowning that the system creates automatically the /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxx entries. autofs wants a :/dev/... as location. I don't think the options ,user,exec,uid=1000 are needed. -- francis _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
