On 08/21/2017 07:23 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
so, in my case, the USB drive contains an xfs filesystem. would I do something like this:
in /etc/auto.master: backup /etc/auto.backup
and in /etc/auto.backup backup -fstype=xfs,defaults,noauto,users :UUID=09bfc97a-8db2-46de-b4dd-427da19b114
In auto.master, the first field is a directory, so it should be "/backup".
Debian's documentation says you shouldn't need to prefix UUID with a ':', so remove that from auto.backup if the configuration you described doesn't work. Alternatively, you could specify its location as ":/dev/disk/by-uuid/<the disk id>".