Hi Francis,
I followed your procedure,
I can see the partitions by nautilus as is the standard, but still I cannot
see them from the command line ..:
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[angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ ls /srv/BKx_programming
ls: cannot access /srv/BKx_programming: *No such file or directory*
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(the output about the service is :)
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[angelo_dev@localhost ~]$ sudo systemctl status autofs
[sudo] password for angelo_dev:
● autofs.service - Automounts filesystems on demand
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/autofs.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2018-01-07 17:36:34 IST; 16min ago
Process: 1202 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/automount $OPTIONS --pid-file
/run/autofs.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1220 (automount)
CGroup: /system.slice/autofs.service
└─1220 /usr/sbin/automount --pid-file /run/autofs.pid
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what to say ??
Perhaps the right procedure (in the case of an USB device) is really to use
the node file in /dev directory how is wrote in the article ?
We tried ... In every case thank you very much
Angelo
On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 1:44 PM, <francis.montag...@inria.fr> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 13:07:11 +0200 Angelo Moreschini wrote:
>
> > Strangely I had several difficult to try autofs ..
>
> This is not as simple as /etc/fstab.
>
> > Now I that I went more in depth,I can understand that autofs is made
> mainly
> > to be used in a net environment (NFS - file systems used in networks).
>
> Yes, but not only.
>
> > The purpose because I wont use autofs is different.. :
>
> Again, I'm almost sure you do not need it.
>
> > I wont only to mount an USB Hard Disk - permanently connected to
> > computer <in order to the back up of the data>.
>
> > The case that I am interested is not so much considered in current
> > "literature" <it is not the default use of autosf.> and so the
> information
> > that I collected couldn't be, perhaps, appropriate.. ...
>
> > I found only an article that consider explicitly the my case...:
>
> > *Automatically mount USB external drive with autofs
> > -https://linuxconfig.org/automatically-mount-usb-
> external-drive-with-autofs
>
> > This article suggest to use the file "node" in the directory /dev as name
> > for mounting the partitions...
> > ....This is another/different way to cope the problem...
>
> > If you are interested, give a look to this article, ...
>
> I read it already.
>
> > perhaps what I did til now (mounting directories instead i file node
> > in /dev directory) could be not the right procedure...
>
> You mounted (in /etc/fstab) using UUIDs, and that is a good practise.
>
> If you really want to test autofs try the following:
>
> Add in /etc/auto.master:
>
> -------------------------------- cut here --------------------------
> /srv/ /etc/auto.ext-usb --timeout=10,defaults
> -------------------------------- cut here --------------------------
>
> And create /etc/auto.ext-usb as:
>
> -------------------------------- cut here --------------------------
> BKx_data-personal -fstype=ntfs :/dev/disk/by-uuid/376214F24CC07CE0
> -------------------------------- cut here --------------------------
>
> Then restart autofs.service and check that you see your partition
> under /srv/BKx_data-personal/
>
> I reference the partition by its UUID, knowning that the system
> creates automatically the /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxx entries.
>
> autofs wants a :/dev/... as location.
>
> I don't think the options ,user,exec,uid=1000 are needed.
>
> --
> francis
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