Re: autofs

[Mirek Dobsicek <m.dobsicek@sh.cvut.cz>]

Hi, I tried it both, but it still does not work


I did:
cd /
mkdir mounted

then edited configs
here is my /etc/auto.master:
  /mounted /etc/auto.mnt --timout=5

here is my /etc/auto.mnt:
  floppy          -fstype=auto,umask=000          :/dev/fd0

then
/etc/init.d/autofs restart

then
cd ~elf
ln -s /mounted/floppy myfloppy

then inserted floppy disk and
cd myfloppy
the led on floppy drive went on, shell become frozen for few second and
then wrote "bash: cd: myfloppy: neither file nor directory


I thought that my floppy drive is broken, but no
fdformat /dev/fd0 and mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0 went fine ....


		Mirek Dobsicek


Alvin Oga wrote:

> hi mirek, caleb
>
> the mount point for autofs should be a directory NOT shared
> by others... otherwise... some dirs might disappear for a few minutes
>
> i like /.autofs  for anything autofs related
> and /.amd  for anything amd related
>
> and /mnt reserved for users/system to play with 
>
> /etc/auto.master
> 	/.autofs	/etc/auto.floppy --timeout=60
>
> sometimes floppy cannot be mounted by a user... other than root...
> ( different options seems to work for varying reasons...
>
> /etc/auto.floppy 
> 	# which ever works for you
> 	# floppy  -suid,user,fstype=auto   :/dev/fd0
> 	# floppy  umask=000,fstype=auto   :/dev/fd0
>
> dont forget to restart autofs if you make changes
> 	
> ln -s /.autofs/floppy /mnt/floppy   or /floppy
>
> ls -ls /mnt/floppy should magically work
>
> have fun linuxing
> alvin
> http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
>
>
> On 12 Feb 2002, Caleb Shay wrote:
>
>
> > Understabable.  I've found the autofs documentation to be a bit hard to
> > follow also, but I did eventually figure it out.  You can't have a mount
> > point of "/", so use something convenient like "/mnt", however, you can
> > then set up a symlink so that it looks like it's at /.  Try this:
> >
> > In /etc/auto.master
> > /mnt	/etc/auto.mnt --timeout=5
> >
> > In /etc/auto.mnt
> > floppy	-fstype=auto,sync	:/dev/fd0
> >
> > Then:
> > ln -s /mnt/floppy /floppy
> >
> > Then whenever you try to access /floppy it will automatically mount
> > /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy, but because of the symlink you can access it as
> > /floppy.  After 5 seconds of not trying to access /floppy (and not being
> > in the directory in any shell) it will unmount it.
> >
> > The big confusion came to me because there are actually 2 man pages for
> > autofs, and the default one doesn't really explain the format of the
> > files.  Try "man 5 autofs".
> >
> > Caleb
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 11:40, Mirek Dobsicek wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I feel a bit lost in running autofs.
> > >
> > > I've installed autofs package, compilled  autofs4 support into kernel
> > > and hoped that now my /floppy becomes automounted, but no :-((
> > >
> > > I read man pages from autofs and auto.master, but i'm too lame to
> > > understand it. Please help me.