I'm wondering if anyone has tackled the issue of having a USB flash
drive automatically mount to the file system when it is inserted?
I can do this manually easily enough by: 

mkdir /mnt/usbflash
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash 

To make this mount occur automatically, I believe that I need to use
autofs to do this, but if that's wrong I'd like to know.
Using autofs, here is what I did...

I inserted the following into /etc/auto.master: 
  /mnt/usbflash   /etc/auto.usbflash --timeout=30 --ghost

I inserted the following into /etc/auto.usbflash:
  usbflash        -fstype=auto,sync       :/dev/sda1

I then:
mkdir /mnt/usbflash
/etc/init.d/autofs restart 

and this appeared to work.  But for some reason, the directory
/mnt/usbflash is then deleted.  And inserting the USB stick does not
force an automatic mount. 

Any suggestions?
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