Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:20:43 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Robert Davison <rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automount Message-ID: <44mz63pu0k.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <444118.56083.qm@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (Robert Davison's message of "Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:37:01 %2B0000 (GMT)") References: <444118.56083.qm@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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Robert Davison <rob_27_preston@yahoo.co.uk> writes: > After some kind advice from this mail list, im trying to set up an amd automount so that my external hard drive doesnt have to be on all the time for the main server to boot. > > My fstab for the drives (there is two drives contained within a Sun StorEdge S1) reads: > > /dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/da0s1d /s none rw,noauto 0 0 > /dev/da1s1b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/da1s2d /t none rw,noauto 0 0 > > I've mkdir -p both /s and /t as mount points > > I've then put the following lines into /etc/amd.map > > localhost/s type:=program:fs:=/s;\ > mount:="/sbin/mount mount /s";\ > unmount:="/sbin/umount umount /s" > > localhost/t type:=program:fs:=/t;\ > mount:="/sbin/mount mount /t";\ > unmount:="/sbin/umount umount /t" > > And finaly I've added the following to ,y /etc/rc.conf > > portmap_enable="YES" > amd_enable="YES" > amd_flags="-a /.amd_mnt -l syslog /host/etc/amd.map" > > when i reboot the server the external drives are not mounted. > > Am I missing a step here, or the point totally ?? I'm not sure about the exact syntax of what you have, but note that the automounter won't mount the filesystem until something tries to access it...
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