On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 23:10, Jason Dixon wrote: > Hi folks: > > I know there are plenty of folks that use removable USB flash media > and/or USB external drives, so I'm hoping someone has solved this. I'm > attempting to have automount mount a Maxtor external USB drive when it's > plugged in, and unmounted when it's unplugged. > > With the following entry in /etc/fstab, I have no problem manually > mounting the drive with "mount /mnt/usb": > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto defaults 0 0 > > However, autofs/automount isn't showing anything when attempting to let > it automount the drive (yes, it's already been umounted). Here's the > configuration: > > [/etc/auto.master] > /mnt/usb /etc/auto.usb --timeout=10 > > [/etc/auto.usb] > usb -fstype=auto :/dev/sda1 > your auto.master file is almost right... you are saying to 'watch' /mnt/usb. when it sees activity in the usb directory (of /mnt/usb) then it will make the mount. In other words, nothing happens until you 'cd /mnt/usb/usb/' Probably what you're trying to do is just automount when you 'cd /mnt/usb'... so change your auto.master to just monitor the /mnt directory. Then auto.usb says that when the 'usb' (/mnt/usb) directory is accessed to make the mount. Also one important thing to note... /mnt/usb won't show up until it is actually mounted... so don't just 'cd /mnt' and 'ls' and see that 'usb' doesn't exist and give up.... still 'cd usb' to make the mount happen. Good Luck! Brent > After doing a "service autofs restart", mount and "service autofs > status" both show it as being automounted, but an "ls /mnt/usb" reports > nothing... > > [jason@lappy ~]$ mount | grep usb > usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) > automount(pid14078) on /mnt/usb type autofs (rw,fd=5,pgrp=14078,minproto=2,maxproto=3) > > [jason@lappy ~]$ sudo service autofs status | grep -v '^$' > Configured Mount Points: > ------------------------ > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 10 /mnt/usb file /etc/auto.usb > Active Mount Points: > -------------------- > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout 10 /mnt/usb file /etc/auto.usb > > [jason@lappy ~]$ ls /mnt/usb/ > [jason@lappy ~]$ > > > Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks, > > -- > Jason Dixon, RHCE > DixonGroup Consulting > http://www.dixongroup.net -- Brent Langston <brentley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> GPG ID: 1024D/09D551AC Fingerprint: A05E 32DF 9EDF 45F3 25AA 3E74 7678 CE7A 09D5 51AC
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