On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 12:30:33 +0200
Angelo Moreschini <mrangelo.fedora(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have problem to configure autofs, in order to use the partitions
that I made on my USB HD - for backing up the data of the computer.
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*(I am thinking that, perhaps, the names to indicate the "mounting
point" and the "automounter map" are not the same that are used in
sftab file <for the fix mounting>).*
I found an article: (Automatically mount USB external drive with
autofs -
https://linuxconfig.org/automatically-mount-usb-external-drive-with-autofs )
There the problem is seriously explained ... (differently than in
other articles there is explicitly considerate the mounting of an
*USB HD*). And there is suggested to use "udev" to create a "USB
device base name permanent" for the device... (and this look to me to
be advisable).
I haven't done this, but from the article it seems that you have either
an entry in fstab and use mount -a to mount the drive after plugging it
in, or you follow the udev - autofs route without an entry in fstab.
But following this procedure the complexity of the problem is growing
exponentially (I need also install udev ?).
I think udev is part of the base fedora system, so you will already
have it installed, as part of package systemd-udev.
The recipe in the article doesn't seem that bad. Basically three steps:
identify and specify the drive, let udev know about the drive, set up
autofs to mount the drive.