Thanks for the reply, Ian. Here are the details. I need to mount my usb flash drive on /mnt/ . There is no problem mounting it at least two dirs deep (/mnt/foo/ for example) but you can't put "/" as the key in auto.master as "/" is already mounted. Which leaves the other config file (auto.usb in my case). It won't accept "/", which would then indicate "/mnt/", and it errors with the previously mentioned message.
I'm not sure if that helps explain my goal any more clearly but to answer your questions: * autofs version: 4.1.4 (Fedora Core 5 rpm) * /etc/auto.master: /mnt /etc/auto.usb --timeout=3 --ghost * /etc/auto.usb: / -fstype=auto :/dev/sdb1 In short, I suppose I can sum it up in one question: How can you automount something exactly one directory deep from "/"? Thanks, Derek On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 12:58 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 12:12 -0600, Derek Reid wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to mount my usb flash drive exclusively on /mnt but I'm not > > sure if this is possible. > > > > >From the docs, it looks like /etc/auto.master has to have /mnt listed as > > the key but in the usb autofs config, but I don't know what would need > > to be listed. I've tried "/" and "." but neither seem to take. I get > > the following message written to the syslog: > > > > automount[21234]: bad map format: found indirect, expected direct > > exiting > > > > Does anyone know if this *is* possible and if so, what do I need to put > > as the key? > > No idea what you mean. > What version of autofs? > How about an example of what you're attempting to do with a description > of what you've done and what you've put in what files. > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
