Apologies in advance that this is happenning on debian, not lfs. But
it seems like a plain-vanilla sysadmin issue, so I figured I'd ask
first where there is a greater percentage of knowledgeable folks...
I had successfully gotten udev/autofs running with some removable USB
drives. Then, after tweaking some settings, it no longer was
working. So, I reverted to the original configuration. It still did
not work. So I attempted to completely re-do the 1st configuration
which I had done, as follows:
# ls /var/autofs/removable/usb/
ls: cannot access /var/autofs/removable/usb: No such file or directory
# ls auto*
auto.master auto.misc auto.removable auto.smb
auto.master~ auto.net auto.removable~
# rm -f auto*~
# mv auto.removable saved.removable
(Then edited auto.master, commenting out the auto.removable line.)
# init.d/autofs restart
Stopping automounter: done.
Starting automounter: no automount maps defined.
# init.d/autofs status
Configured Mount Points:
------------------------
Active Mount Points:
--------------------
(a clean system, right?)
(Now uncommented auto.removable line)
# cat /etc/auto.master
#
# $Id: auto.master,v 1.4 2005/01/04 14:36:54 raven Exp $
#
# Sample auto.master file
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# For details of the format look at autofs(5).
#/misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
#/smb /etc/auto.smb
#/misc /etc/auto.misc
#/net /etc/auto.net
/var/autofs/removable /etc/auto.removable --timeout=2
# mv saved.removable auto.removable
# cat /etc/auto.removable
usb -fstype=vfat,rw :/dev/usbstick
ipod -fstype=vfat,rw :/dev/ipod
sdcard -fstype=vfat,rw :/dev/cam
# init.d/autofs restart
Stopping automounter: done.
Starting automounter: done.
# init.d/autofs status
Configured Mount Points:
------------------------
/usr/sbin/automount --timeout=2 /var/autofs/removable program
/etc/auto.removable
Active Mount Points:
--------------------
/usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_var_autofs_removable.pid
--timeout=2 /var/autofs/removable program /etc/auto.removable
(Up and running, right?)
(Insert usb thumbdrive....)
# ls /var/autofs/removable/usb
ls: cannot access /var/autofs/removable/usb: No such file or directory
(udev is still working....)
# ls /dev/usbstick
/dev/usbstick
# mount /dev/usbstick /mnt/foo
# ls /mnt/foo/*
/mnt/foo/album_cover.eps
/mnt/foo/album_cover.jpg
/mnt/foo/aldrich_fof.tex
(etc....)
Would appreciate any help here, I am stumped! What am I missing??!
Scott.
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