Re: autofs only mounting one fs at a time.
>On 06.07.06 13:41, wehn wrote:
>> I set up autofs for automounting with help of:
>> http://greenfly.net/tips/autofs.html
>>
>> But I can only mount the 1st parition of the first device I insert.
>>Does anyone know what is wrong?
>
>the idea of using autofs for this purpose :)
>
>autofs is system that allows you automatically mount a directory if
you >try
>to access it. So, autofs only mounts directories if you change them or
>try
>to open them.
Which is what I am doing, maybe I wasn't clear enough:
1st device inserted is accessible if accessed eg opening photos from the
gimp. 2nd is not accessible (from a different program) until the first
is removed.
I'd love to get this working, since it seems to be a great way of doing
things. No more 'ejecting' usb drives.
>
>> If I insert a USB drive, it mounts /dev/sda1 and is accessable from
>> /media/sda1. Insert a second drive and it isn't accessable until the
>> first is pulled out. Then it works fine from /media/sdb1. Similar
>> problem with multiple partitions, only the first is mountable with
>> autofs, others don't work.
>
>use "udev" package for automatic mounting of usb drives.
I'll have a look and see if it's a good alternative while I try and fix
this.
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