08-12-2009
Autofs, doesn't mount anything
Hi,
I know that this is probably quite a tiresome issue, but I can't get autofs to work.
I'm using udev rules to create symbolic links below /dev, that always point to the same devices regardless of which port they're plugged in. So, autofs's config files look like this for me:
/etc/auto.master:
Quote:
/media/auto /etc/auto.misc --timeout=60
and /etc/auto.misc:
Quote:
usb-stick -fstype=vfat,users,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=007 :/dev/usb-stick
ext-fp1 -fstype=ntfs-3g,users,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=007 :/dev/ext-fp1
ext-fp2 -fstype=ntfs-3g,users,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=007 :/dev/ext-fp2
The both ext-fp? are my external hard drives.
Running "service autofs start ; service autofs status" does start the service (I can tell by looking at "service --status-all"), but in the second command's output there are no entries under "Active Mount Points".
Trying to access the directories where my drives are supposed to be mounted gives me an error message:
Quote:
Transport endpoint is not connected
Can anybody help me out?
PS: As a thank-you, I would summarize my experience in a small guide about making device access (also with the NTFS file system) more comfortable under Linux. Guess that still is pretty common problem.
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AUTOFS(8) System Manager's Manual AUTOFS(8)
NAME
/etc/init.d/autofs - Control Script for automounter
SYNOPSIS
/etc/init.d/autofs start|stop|restart|reload|status
DESCRIPTION
autofs control the operation of the automount(8) daemons running on the Linux system. Usually autofs is invoked at system boot time with
the start parameter and at shutdown time with the stop parameter. The autofs script can also manually be invoked by the system administra-
tor to shut down, restart or reload the automounters.
OPERATION
autofs will consult a configuration file /etc/auto.master (see auto.master(5)) by default to find mount points on the system. For each of
those mount points automount(8) will mount and start a thread, with the appropriate parameters, to manage the mount point.
/etc/init.d/autofs reload will check the current auto.master map against running daemons. It will kill those daemons whose entries have
changed and then start daemons for new or changed entries.
If a map is modified then the change will become effective immediately. If the auto.master map is modified then the autofs script must be
rerun to activate the changes.
/etc/init.d/autofs status will display the status of, automount(8), running or not.
SEE ALSO
automount(8), autofs(5), auto.master(5). autofs_ldap_auth.conf(5)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christoph Lameter <chris@waterf.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Edited by H. Peter Anvin
<hpa@transmeta.com>.
9 Sep 1997 AUTOFS(8)