automount of filesystem by label

[Tod Thomas]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Tod Thomas wrote:
>   
>> I have an external, USB connected, SATA drive divided into two
>> partitions with labels SATA1, SATA2.  I'd like to set up autofs to
>> automount the drive when I plug it into the USB port and power it up.
>>
>> In auto.master I have:
>>
>> /mnt /etc/auto.misc --timeout 60
>>
>> and in /etc/auto.misc I have:
>>
>> sata1    -fstype=ext3   :SATA1
>> sata2    -fstype=ext3   :SATA2
>>
>> I restarted autofs, no luck.  Is there a way to automount my drive using
>> just the labels?
>>
>>
>> Thanks - Tod
>>
>>     
> Dumb question - what error message do you get when you try do "cd
> /misc/sata1"? Automount does not mount anything until you try to
> access it. It does not mount your drive just because you plugged it in.
>
> Mikkel
>   
No such file or directory, and that's doing a "cd /mnt/sata1" - I always 
mount to mnt, I just reused the /etc/auto.misc file.