Re: automount of filesystem by label

[Tod Thomas <fr33zone gmail com>]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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
>   
No such file or directory, and that's doing a "cd /mnt/sata1" - I always 
mount to mnt, I just reused the /etc/auto.misc file.