Re: How to automount an usb key ?

[Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>]

Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I  try to setup an automount for an usb key and have the following config :

I''m having the same trouble with a flash card reader. works like a 
champ to mount it manually, but cannot get automount to do it. MEanwhile 
automount works great for my nfs shares... what gives? is it a udev 
thing maybe?

A
> File auto.master:
> /mnt    /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
> File auto.misc:
> usbkey          -fstype=auto            :/dev/sda
>
> Directory /mnt is created and autofs daemon seems correctly started as status 
> display:
> ...
> Configured Mount Points:
> ------------------------
> /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /mnt file /etc/auto.misc
>
> Active Mount Points:
> --------------------
> /usr/sbin/automount --pid-file=/var/run/autofs/_mnt.pid --timeout=60 /mnt 
> file /etc/auto.misc
> ...
>
> But automount don't work.
> However a manual mount of /dev/sda works fine, so how to automount it ?.
>
> Thanks for any clue.
> Bruno