Automounting not working?

riwa · 2006-05-01 12:15:38

I installed and configured autofs and on Wiki it says that:

Wiki-Pages wrote:

Devices are now automatically mounted when they are accessed. Visit the /media/cdrom and /media/floppy directories to access them. They will remain mounted as long as you access them.

However if I enter the dir and tries to list the files I get:

221506/media/cdrom$ ls
ls: .: No such file or directory

Any ideas?

/Richard

ScriptDevil · 2006-05-14 17:25:46

if it does not try the manual ways. Automated stuff are eyewashes.

shadowhand · 2006-05-17 14:44:46

Search the wiki. There's info about automounters there.

FUBAR · 2006-05-17 14:59:23

Create symbolic links in /mnt or somewhere pointing to every medium you have AutoFS manage.

ln -s /media/cd /mnt/cd

Then you just put in a CD, and cd /mnt/cd et voila.

riwa · 2006-05-18 17:48:46

Still the same problem after symbolic link:

194717/mnt/cd/cdrom# ls
ls: .: No such file or directory

Kern · 2006-05-18 21:20:32

silly question: its not a music cd by any chance? no insult to ur intelligence intended, its something i did once.
After a while a slap on the forehead seemed to cure me of the problem

FUBAR · 2006-05-19 07:48:25

riwa wrote:

Still the same problem after symbolic link:
194717/mnt/cd/cdrom# ls
ls: .: No such file or directory

If it's not an audio CD you're trying to mount, as Kern suggested, you probably didn't read the AutoFS wiki correctly.

Off the top of my head:
1. enable autofs support (unless you have a kernel from the repo)
2. install the autofs tools using pacman
3. edit /etc/autofs/autofs.media and /etc/autofs/autofs.master
4. modprobe autofs
5. /etc/rc.d/autofs start

riwa · 2006-06-16 08:22:17

I still get the same message:

101939/media# ls
cdrom/  usbstick/
101940/media# ls cdrom/
ls: cdrom/: No such file or directory

However I didn't moldprobe nit (I think). Tried:

102057/media# modprobe autofs
FATAL: Module autofs not found.

I did follow every step in AutoFS_HowTo.

FUBAR · 2006-06-18 13:59:23

If you're using the stock kernel, it's got AutoFS compiled in so no need for modprobing.

Did you run the autofs service?

riwa · 2006-06-19 14:10:45

I did:

/etc/rc.d/autofs start

I also added it in my daemon-list in rc.conf so it should start manually but I've tried both ways.

gizmo · 2006-06-28 23:00:29

Could you post the content of /etc/autofs/auto.media?

Did you remember to put a empty line at the bottom of /etc/autofs/auto.master?

riwa · 2006-07-03 12:36:06

Output of auto.media:

cdrom -fstype=iso9660, ro, nodev, nosuid :/dev/cdrom
usbstick -fstype=auto,  async, nodev, nosuid, umask=000 :/dev/sda1

Yes. There's an empty line below the last line in auto.master.

maxwevers · 2006-07-07 11:34:13

riwa wrote:

Yes. There's an empty line below the last line in auto.master.

As far as I can remember you need an empty line at the end of every auto file you include.

riwa · 2006-07-07 16:59:12

I'll make sure I do...

[edit]
Now my /media dir got deleted. I created it again, restarted autofs and it got removed again.

Mr Green · 2006-07-07 17:33:21

why not just use udev pmont hal dbus etc...

Romashka · 2006-07-11 13:59:08

Autofs has one big advantage over udev:
you can mount usbstick with -o async (which greatly improves speed and flash lifetime) and you can safely remove usbstick after 1 minute (if configured as in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AutoFS_HowTo ).
The same for CDs - you don't need any eject utilities or menus to unlock CD-drive. It will be unmounted and unlocked after 1 minute idle.

BTW I posted a feature request to Flyspray about changing useless autofs default config files to something like AutoFS HowTo from Wiki.

Mr Green · 2006-07-11 14:30:56

autofs not working here (yet!)

set up as per wiki .... nothing ...

Happy with udev rules & magic!

/me chants pendrive to mount

Romashka · 2006-07-11 21:29:15

Mr Green wrote:

autofs not working here (yet!)
set up as per wiki .... nothing ...
Happy with udev rules & magic!
/me chants pendrive to mount

Works for me. Setup as per Wiki. What I did wrong?

Mr Green · 2006-07-12 05:14:34

no idea .. I will keep trying maybe I missed something

Romashka · 2006-07-12 08:00:52

Did you disable your udev rules and restarted udev before playing with autofs?

Romashka · 2006-07-12 08:18:19

Here are my config files:

/etc/autofs/auto.master:

/media /etc/autofs/auto.media

Note that the end char is the newline char!

/etc/autofs/auto.media

cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,nodev,nosuid,iocharset=koi8-u :/dev/cdrom
floppy -fstype=auto,async,nodev,nosuid,umask=000,codepage=866,iocharset=koi8-u :/dev/fl
usbdrive -fstype=vfat,async,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime,umask=000,codepage=866,i
ocharset=koi8-u :/dev/sda1

/etc/conf.d/autofs:

# e.g. localoptions='rsize=8192,wsize=8192'
localoptions=''

# e.g. --timeout=60
daemonoptions='-g'

/etc/default/autofs:

TIMEOUT=1

And

 DAEMONS=(... autofs ...)

Then I've created empty /media directory.

On start autofs creates /media/cdrom, /media/floppy and /media/usbdrive
Autofs does not mount usbdrive when you plug USB drive, nor cdrom when you insert CD! It mounts these directories only on first access! And unmounts them after 1 minute after the last access (and if none files or dirs are blocked).

Mr Green · 2006-07-12 08:27:26

lol no .... but I will :oops:

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