Failed mounts

[Claude Jones]

On Wed October 19 2005 10:09 am, Stuart Sears wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> >  Failed mounts:
> >     .directory          Program Lookup Failure 1 Time(s)
> >     misc                Mount Failure 1 Time(s)
> >     net                 Mount Failure 1 Time(s)
>
> looks like autofs trouble to me
> are you using the system autmounter?
>
The service is on - I'm not sure if I'm 'using' it or not. I was waiting to 
reply till I researched this some more. There's two areas where I thought I 
'might' be using it - I have the NTFS kernel-module installed so I can read 
my NTFS drive; I frequently connect/disconnect flash drives and an external 
USB fat formatted 80gb drive - are these two file systems being automounted 
by autofs? 

> if not, try
> chkconfig autofs off
> service autofs stop
>
> and see if the logs still have those messages in them the next day
>
If I turn autofs off, I'm trying to understand what this might imply for 
accessing the above mentioned file systems...


-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA