automount seems not to work

[Alfredo Ferrari]

See my previous message. It is exactly the FC2 autofs bug.

             Alfredo

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, CB wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 18:21, CB wrote:
>> ... the automount doesn't seem to do anything.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> I've realised now that I misunderstood how automount works. I assumed
> that when I plugged in my USB drive, the mount point would appear. Now I
> realise that the mount point only appears on demand. So far so good.
>
> But I have another problem. I can get automount to work for /dev/sda2 (a
> vfat partion), but not for /dev/sda1 (ext3). When I try to access the
> mountpoint, I get the error message "no such file or directory", and the
> following appears in /var/log/messages:
> 	localhost automount[5462]: mount(ext2): /dev/sda1: filesystem needs
> repair, won't mount
>
> If I mount /dev/sda1 manually, all is OK. I've also unmounted it and run
> fsck which reported no problems with the partition.
>
> So, 2 questions:
>
> 1. what might be causing the above error?
> 2. is there a way of getting the mountpoint to appear when I plug the
> drive in, rather than on demand?
>
>
>
>
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