Re: automounting
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 08:56, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I want to be able to have my floppy and cdrom automount. I have enabled
> automount support in the kernel and have installed autofs. I have looked
> at and tried to follow the information in the autofs man page, the
> automount minihowto, http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/automount.html
> the quick autofs tutorial, www.linuxhq.com/lg/issue24//nielsen.html
> and Poul's linux guide--automounter setup,
> www.poulpetersen.dk/linux/ukautofs.htm.
> However, although I apparently have a running autofs and a valid
> /etc/auto.master, /etc/auto.floppy and /etc/auto.cdrom, and directories
> /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy, I still don't have automount. Where else
> should i look? What else should I try? what else might I be leaving out?
> thanks.
You could try Con Kolivas' patch on 'Supermount'
http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.7/2.6.7-ck<?>
then just add something like this in your fstab:
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto 0 0
hth
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