Automounting A USB Drive
Hello,
Been try to use autofs to mount and unmount a usb flashdrive.
The mount point is /media
When the drive is NOT inserted, /media is empty. When Iinsert the drive, I see directories in /media that are on the usb drive but nocontent.
So, its kind working.
/etc/auto,master:
#
# Sample auto.master file
# This is a ‘master’ automounter map and it has thefollowing format:
# mount-point [map-type[,format]:]map [options]
# For details of the format look at auto.master(5).
#
/misc /etc/auto.misc
#
# NOTE: mounts done from a hosts map will be mounted withthe
# “nosuid”and “nodev” options unless the “suid” and “dev”
# optionsare explicitly given.
#
/net -hosts
#
# Include /etc/auto.master.d/*.autofs
# The included files must conform to the format of thisfile.
#
+dir:/etc/auto.master.d
#
# Include central master map if it can be found using
# nsswitch sources.
#
# Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as
# above) in the included master map any keys that are the
# same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes
# precedence.
#
+auto.master
/media /etc/auto.usb
/etc/auto.usb:
usb -fstype=auto :/dev/sdb1
The particular usb drive is a REAR backup drive but Iused -fstype=auto in case it may be something different.
TIA
4 thoughts on - Automounting A USB Drive
I’ve never had to do anything at all to make this work,… I insert the USB device, wait a few seconds, and voila!
are you trying this because you can’t get it to work the “normal” way, or is this simply an educational experience?
Fred
——– Original Message ——
Seems a permission issue. su to root after the “auto” mount and take a look. If you can see your file or can write a touch file then your user may not be in the necessary owner/group to view/write to the structure. Seen similar problems in upgrades… same user but the UID changed in the upgrade and blinded the current user to older files that were preserved. A
simple chmod command from root fixed the issue to restore proper ownership. Just a wag, but sometimes it’s the little things.
— Fred
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Let me add this which I failed to mention.
This was a fresh install as a “Server with Desktop”. I have been adding packages as needed.
Week before last when working on this, I was looking through the logs and found REAR need syslinux which wasn’t installed. I may not have all the packages installed I need. I run REAR as a cron job around 2AM. If I did a reboot/restart and forgot to manually mount the USB drive or forgot to click on it gnom, which is usually the case, I don’t get a backup.
It ran last night and I was OK, but I’d still need to find out why its not mounting by itself.
Thanks