Hi Francis,
I followed your procedure,====
[angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ ls /srv/BKx_programming
ls: cannot access /srv/BKx_programming: No such file or directory
====
(the output about the service is :)
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[angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ sudo systemctl status autofs
[sudo] password for angelo_dev:
● autofs.service - Automounts filesystems on demand
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/autofs.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2018-01-07 17:36:34 IST; 16min ago
Process: 1202 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/automount $OPTIONS --pid-file /run/autofs.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1220 (automount)
CGroup: /system.slice/autofs.service
└─1220 /usr/sbin/automount --pid-file /run/autofs.pid
=====
what to say ??
On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 1:44 PM, <Francis.Montagnac@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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