Where is Autofs ?

whitetimer · 2010-11-17 16:17:42

Hi All

Is autofs still used for automounting removeable media as when i run sudo pacman -S autofs i get 'Error, could not find or read package' ?

Many Thanks

lucke · 2010-11-17 16:35:22

You can install it from AUR.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43473

ilpianista · 2010-11-17 16:35:33

Hi, has been moved to AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43473

whitetimer · 2010-11-17 17:00:48

Many Thanks ... so does that mean its no longer developed then, other than by the community ?

Mr.Elendig · 2010-11-17 17:14:47

I would use something else than autofs. If you are running X, most of the gui filemanagers can automount, and if you are tty only, there is always skvm and similar.

whitetimer · 2010-11-17 17:17:32

@Mr.Elendig

I think i will probably stick to thunar and mounting through fstab

Cheers

fukawi2 · 2010-11-18 00:23:45

Mr.Elendig wrote:

I would use something else than autofs. If you are running X, most of the gui filemanagers can automount, and if you are tty only, there is always skvm and similar.

Can I ask why? I'm looking for something that can unmount after timeout, and that I can also access via the CLI (which Gnome / gvfs doesn't let me)....

Mr.Elendig · 2010-11-18 00:34:42

Sort of unmantained, and has a long and proud history of bugs (some of them rather nasty)

whitetimer · 2010-11-18 05:56:18

Will avoid then ... Thanks for the advice

fukawi2 · 2010-11-18 07:56:20

fukawi2 wrote:

I'm looking for something that can unmount after timeout, and that I can also access via the CLI (which Gnome / gvfs doesn't let me)....

Anyone got suggestions for something that can do that?

litemotiv · 2010-11-18 20:45:53

fukawi2 wrote:

Anyone got suggestions for something that can do that?

I'd like to know that too...

I'm staying with Autofs until there is something better, personally i've never been bitten by any obvious bugs or flaws (afaict). I'm mainly using it for remote filesystems though, so if anyone knows a lightweight solution for that, speak up!

Dieter@be · 2010-11-18 21:57:34

autofs is broken for me for years now. too bad, because it used to work pretty well.

mikesd · 2010-11-20 10:02:26

That is a shame. autofs behaved eratically when I first installed it though a new release a couple of days later fixed the issues I was having and it has worked fine for me since. I haven't looked at skvm as I removed hal when xorg dropped it. There are a couple of udev/udisk based utilities available now:

udiskie - http://bitbucket.org/byronclark/udiskie
uam - https://github.com/mgorny/uam/

Haven't tried either of them yet.

EDIT: Only udiskie uses udisks. uam just uses udev.

Last edited by mikesd (2010-11-20 10:05:25)

Dieter@be · 2010-11-20 21:50:18

litemotiv wrote:

fukawi2 wrote:
Anyone got suggestions for something that can do that?
I'd like to know that too...
I'm staying with Autofs until there is something better, personally i've never been bitten by any obvious bugs or flaws (afaict). I'm mainly using it for remote filesystems though, so if anyone knows a lightweight solution for that, speak up!

+1
the "alternatives" rely on dbus/hal (yuck) and/or are meant for local media like usb sticks. not for remote FS'es like nfs

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