Hi! Thanks to some of you I got autofs set up on my C7 netbook for mounting local cifs filesytems. Now I want to do something on my C7 desktop machine, that seems to me to be a little different, and I"m not sure how to do it. I have an external RAID1 box that attaches via USB. It is/will be nearly always /dev/sdc, but being USB I can't guarantee that it will always be found there. accordingly, in my /etc/fstab I have an entry that mounts it via its UUID: UUID=09bfc97a-8db2-46de-b4dd-427da19b114 /mnt/backup xfs defaults,noauto,users 0 2 and I'm wondering how to specify that in an autofs recipe instead... If doing cifs mounts, /etc/auto.master may contain this line: /mymount /etc/auto.mymount then there would be a file /etc/auto.mymount that contains a line similar to this: winbox -fstype=cifs,rw,noperm,user=sushi,pass=yummy ://winbox/getme so, in my case, the USB drive contains an xfs filesystem. would I do something like this: in /etc/auto.master: backup /etc/auto.backup and in /etc/auto.backup backup -fstype=xfs,defaults,noauto,users :UUID=09bfc97a-8db2-46de-b4dd-427da19b114 Would that be expected to work, or am I all overlooking something obvious? Thanks in advance for your advice! Fred -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos