You didn't say what problems you were having, but these are the steps I used to get this working:
installed autofs package added line "/backup /etc/auto.misc" to /etc/auto.master to provide a mount point added line "usb - fstype=auto,gid=backup,umask=002 :/dev/sdb1" to /etc/ auto/misc to identify USB device cycled with "service autofs restart" cd to /backup/usb and run ls command to mount filesystem. On Jul 23, 5:10 pm, Scott Vargovich <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently installed Arch on my laptop. I'm trying to configure autofs to > mount a ntfs filesystem on an external hard drive. I'm pretty sure I > followed what the wiki tells me to do. I'm having no success. > > Here are the contents of my auto.master file: > > # Sample auto.master file > # Format of this file: > # mountpoint map options > # For details of the format look at autofs(5). > > #/media /etc/autofs/auto.media > > /media/misc /etc/autofs/auto.misc --timeout=5 --ghost > /media/net /etc/autofs/auto.net --timeout=60 --ghost > /net -hosts > > Here's my auto.misc: > > # This is an automounter map and it has the following format > # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location > # Details may be found in the autofs(5) manpage > > cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,nodev,nosuid :/dev/cdrom > floppy -fstype=auto,async,nodev,nosuid,umask=000 :/dev/fl > usbstick -fstype=auto,async,nodev,nosuid,umask=000 :/dev/sda1 > exthd -fstype=auto :/dev/sdb1 > > I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. > > -- > <>< Scott Vargovich <>< > ------------------------------------------ > OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E > ------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
