Automount and Autofs.......

[Ralph Crongeyer]

On Thursday 17 April 2003 03:52 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote:

So what do you all think? Is this the way to go?
How do you accomplish this (Automounting) task?

> 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