Re: automount of filesystem by label

[Mikkel]

Tod Thomas wrote:
>  I have an external, USB connected, SATA drive divided into two
>  partitions with labels SATA1, SATA2.  I'd like to set up autofs to
>  automount the drive when I plug it into the USB port and power it up.
>  
>  In auto.master I have:
>  
>  /mnt /etc/auto.misc --timeout 60
>  
>  and in /etc/auto.misc I have:
>  
>  sata1    -fstype=ext3   :SATA1
>  sata2    -fstype=ext3   :SATA2
>  
>  I restarted autofs, no luck.  Is there a way to automount my drive using
>  just the labels?
>  
>  
>  Thanks - Tod
>   
Dumb question - what error message do you get when you try do "cd
/misc/sata1"? Automount does not mount anything until you try to
access it. It does not mount your drive just because you plugged it in.

Mikkel
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