Playing with autofs.
 

Now I have been playing with "autofs" for two days (just for my own enjoyment) and I can't get it to work or I just don't understand something.

I made an entry in "/etc/auto.master":
Then I created file "auto.fat" in /etc and made following entry in it:
I took a look at a few tutorials and one of them says that:
- "/windows" will be my mounting point
- "fat" is my key to invoke automount action
So as far as I understand only "/windows" folder needs to be created.

Now when I start "autofs", my windows folder stays the empty. If I type it says that this folder doesn't exist.
If I create "fat" folder inside "/windows" and type , fat folder stays empty.

How do I make that when I go into that folder I would be able to see files on that partition.

After you made your changes to the config files, did you restart the autofs daemons?

If not, then more than likely, your daemons are not running with up-to-date config info.

Try restarting the service, or if you're having difficulty locating it, restart the system.


HTH,

Nawar

I do restart the service every time I make changes. :cool:

I also solved my problem:

1. I created /windows/fat folder manually
2. I changed this: to this: 3. Restarted autofs, and finally it worked. :)

I just don't know if timeout option works, which i specified in "auto.master":

/windows /etc/auto.fat --timeout=10

I assume that 10 means 10 seconds and not 10 minutes, right?:scratch:

Now that makes sense.

It's always the simple things that cause problems, isn't it.

Like forgetting to have a directory available as a mount point.... <DOH!>

I know I've done it before, and WILL do it again.


Glad to hear you solved your problem.

Good work!

Directory thing was not the biggest problem. Because I tried creating it and autofs still wouldn't mount fat partition.

Now this apperantely caused all the problem:

fat -fstype=vfat :/dev/hda5

- for some reason it would not take "vfat" value so I replaced it with "auto" and also added a bunch of other options.

I also found this link:
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_.../autofs-6.html
It states some of the mounting options, maybe it will come useful to someone, on this forum, one day. :)