On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 18:21, CB wrote: > ... the automount doesn't seem to do anything. > > Any suggestions? > > > I've realised now that I misunderstood how automount works. I assumed that when I plugged in my USB drive, the mount point would appear. Now I realise that the mount point only appears on demand. So far so good. But I have another problem. I can get automount to work for /dev/sda2 (a vfat partion), but not for /dev/sda1 (ext3). When I try to access the mountpoint, I get the error message "no such file or directory", and the following appears in /var/log/messages: localhost automount[5462]: mount(ext2): /dev/sda1: filesystem needs repair, won't mount If I mount /dev/sda1 manually, all is OK. I've also unmounted it and run fsck which reported no problems with the partition. So, 2 questions: 1. what might be causing the above error? 2. is there a way of getting the mountpoint to appear when I plug the drive in, rather than on demand?
