Verify that: 1. Autofs is not running 2. Systemd has created '.mount' and '.automount' units systemctl status mnt-backup.mount mnt-backup.automount systemctl cat mnt-backup.mount mnt-backup.automount 3. Verify that there are no errors in local-fs.target systemctl status local-fs.target 4. Check for errors via: mount -a journalctl -e Best Regards Strahil Nikolov В понеделник, 4 януари 2021 г., 01:29:25 Гринуич+2, Fred <fred.fredex at gmail.com> написа: OK, I think I've got it set up as described here, while fixing the misplaced fields in /etc/fstab: UUID=259ec5ea-e8a4-465a-9263-1c06217b9aaf /mnt/backup ext4 x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=15min,noauto 0 2 now when I do, e.g., "ls /mnt/backup" I get: $ sudo !! sudo ls /mnt/backup ls: cannot open directory /mnt/backup: No such file or directory if I do: ls /mnt I see: backup use su to become root, then: ls -l /mnt shows: # ls -al total 4 drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 0 Jan 2 13:24 . dr-xr-xr-x. 21 root root 4096 Jan 2 09:22 .. dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Jan 2 13:24 backup ls backup shows: # ls -al backup ls: cannot open directory backup: No such file or directory why? it clearly appears to exist ???? the FS isn't mounted, but /mnt/backup exists, so it should be visible as an entry directory. also, I can mount it manually: mount UUID=259ec5ea-e8a4-465a-9263-1c06217b9aaf /mnt/backup and then access it. but it doesn't automount with, e.g. "ls /mnt/backup" or "ls /mnt/backup/backups". I must still be doing something wrong but maybe I'm too stupid to see it. (Please don't agree with me publicly...! :=) ) Fred On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 4:36 PM Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: > > > > I commented out those entries in /etc/auto.master before modifying the > > fstab entry: > > > > UUID=259ec5ea-e8a4-465a-9263-1c06217b9aaf /mnt/backup > > ext4,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=15min noauto 0 2 > > That's not correct. See 'man fstab'. It should be > > device mount-point filesystem-type options dump fsck > > So you should have: > > UUID=259ec5ea-e8a4-465a-9263-1c06217b9aaf /mnt/backup ext4 > x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=15min,noauto 0 2 > > > > > > which is exactly as it was before except for the x-systemd entries as you > > described. > > Yeah, you put them in the wrong place. > > > P. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos