Automount and Autofs.......

[Ralph Crongeyer]

On Thursday 17 April 2003 03:25 pm, Steven Michalske wrote:

Mtools 3.9.9 is installed. I think I need to have the autofs package 
installed.

Why Autofs ?

 Autofs automatically mounts file systems for you when they are requested. 
This has a very handy features: It's great for handling removable media. Just 
CD to the right directory, or execute ls or do anything that sends a request 
to the mount point: and the daemon mounts it. After all, it's the kind of job 
that's beneath the dignity of a human being First, you need to install the 
"autofs" package. It should include some appropriate config files. The files 
you need are /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.mnt Examples shown below: 

/etc/auto.master
 
# Format of this file:
# mountpoint map options
# For details of the format look at autofs(8).

#/misc       /etc/auto.misc     --timeout 60
/mnt   /etc/auto.mnt --timeout 5
# 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


/etc/auto.mnt

# nosuid means suid bits on mounted media will not be set. 

cdrom      -fstype=iso9660,user,nosuid        :/dev/cdrom
floppy     -fstype=ext2,defaults,user,nosuid,sync  :/dev/fd0
zip        -fstype=ext2,defaults,user,nosuid  :/dev/sda4

It can be downloaded from here:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/

> i believe kde uses the mtools package for automounting the floppy drive or
> something like that
>
>
>
> On Thursday 17 April 2003 12:12 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
> RC> On Thursday 17 April 2003 01:34 pm, Steven Michalske wrote:
> RC>
> RC> I have the hotplug module installed and it works great for my usb
> camera. RC> However I have to mount and unmount my usb floppy drive every
> time I want to RC> access it, it's the same with my cdrom?
> RC>
> RC> Should hotplug be mounting my usb floppy and cdrom too?
> RC>
> RC> > look at the hotplug module
> RC> >
> RC> >
> RC> > On Thursday 17 April 2003 10:27 am, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:
> RC> > RC> Can some one help me to set my system up so that the cdrom and
> usb RC> >  devices are RC> automatically mount when a disk is inserted or
> usb device RC> > is plugged in? RC>
> RC> > RC> All I can see on line so far is information about auto-autofs but
>  it is RC> >  not in RC> the moonbase.
> RC> > RC>
> RC> > RC> So how do I go about setting things up for automounting in Lunar?
> RC> >
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Ralph Crongeyer
Linux Systems Certified Professional (LSCP)
Network Administrator