corrected: mount vfat partition by "auto"

oleksandr korneta mai11ist at fastmail.fm
Wed Oct 5 23:48:46 UTC 2005


on 10/05/2005 12:48 PM Mike McGrath wrote:
> 
> Automount and what goes in fstab are two separate entities.  Automounted
> file systems are controlled by the automount daemon (service autofs)
> And are typically controlled by the file /etc/auto.master (do an ls
> /etc/auto.*)  Automount is typically used for remote file shares (like
> network shares).  Whereas fstab is used for local partitions.  What
> command are you running to mount /mnt/dwin and who are you running that
> command as?
sorry for confusing you Mike. What I really meant was mounting bu auto
parameter from fstab. But you have shown me a direction where to look
for the source of error "failed to mount /net/.directory". I didnt know
about /etc/auto/mster before.

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta




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