On 12/07/2013 10:33 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: > On 12/07/2013 09:57 AM, William Harrington wrote: >> On Dec 7, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: >> >>> I've not been successful in getting autofs to work. >> There's a huge thread from earlier this year with autofs and LFS 7.2. >> It may shed some light into helping you: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.support/46321 >> >> Sincerely, >> >> William Harrington > That's one thing I forgot to do in my troubleshooting--check the list > archives. Thanks, William. > > But, that thread was unresolved. At least, there was never a solution > posted. I'm really "red-faced" about that one. I don't know what happened earlier, but what I was looking at earlier following the link William quoted ended before the final resolution. I apologize to William for doing the work recommending that to me and also to akheizer and Cliff for discounting the great work they did.
Anyway, it was the "file:/etc/auto.usb" that fixed it for me. But I still need to solve something. Here's my /etc/auto.usb > # This is an automounter map and it has the following format > # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location > # Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage > > > usb[!0-9] -fstype=auto :/dev/sd[a-z][1-9] > > memstick -fstype=auto :/dev/sdb1 > > Oh, BTW, /etc/auto.master creates the directory /mnt/removable for usb items. Right now my "stick" mounts at /mnt/removable/memstick when I insert it into a usb slot. I'm trying to account for having a number of usb devices in use and having them appear as /dev/sd??. I left the external disks alone while I was troubleshooting automount and wrote the specific entry for the stick. However, I'd like to change that to a "general" name too so that I don't have to worry about inserting it first all the time. I don't know if this file is the place to do that though. I could write a "persistent" udev rule for the drives and specifically list them, but that seems counter to the idea of the "--ghost" option in /etc/auto.master. I don't want to have to remember what each drive is. Ultimately, I'd like to get the different partitions of these drives mounted in /mnt/removable/$VOLUME_NAME. But I won't be able to do that until I get the different partitions to mount in the first place. I thought a regex would work. The other thing too is that when I initially ran <automount -vfd> it complained about not finding /etc/nsswitch.conf. It was right. That file wasn't there. I did a not too exhaustive search, but couldn't find anywhere in the build or configuration instructions for anything, creating /etc/nsswitch.conf. Did I miss something somewhere? If I did, I want to go back to where I missed it and see if I missed anything else. Thanks, Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
