How To Use USB Drives

Use USB Disks or sticks

I have several USB and eSATA disk I need on my machine. I also need to bring files and take files from the machine by USB stick. I use Putty and Webmin for these things

Install autofs

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​yum install autofs​

Need VFAT for the big USB Disk or the large files on it:

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​​yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g​

Setup the autofs by edit master settings

Change 2 lines to (if not needed)

Add one (or more) line for the USB disk /var/hda/vol /etc/auto.vol --timeout=3

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​nano /etc/auto.master​

# Sample auto.master file
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# For details of the format look at autofs(5).
#
/var/hda/vol    /etc/auto.vol  --timeout=3
#
#/misc  /etc/auto.misc
#
# NOTE: mounts done from a hosts map will be mounted with the
#      "nosuid" and "nodev" options unless the "suid" and "dev"
#      options are explicitly given.
#
#/net  -hosts
#
# Include central master map if it can be found using
# nsswitch sources.
#
# Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as
# above) in the included master map any keys that are the
# same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes
# precedence.
#
+auto.master

Add the directory by

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​​mkdir /var/hda/vol ; chmod 775 /var/hd​

Then add the auto.vol file:

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​​nano /etc/auto.vol​

#
# This is an automounter map and it has the following format
# key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
# mountpoint_key options location_device # man 5 autofs
#
cdrom  -fstype=auto,ro,nosuid,nodev,user                      :/dev/cdrom
#floppy -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/fd0
K      -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdk1
K.2    -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000  :dev/sdk2 #2nd partition
K.3    -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000  :dev/sdk3 #3d partition
L      -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdl1
M      -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdm1
N      -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdn1
O      -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdo1
G      -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdg
H      -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdh
I      -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdi
J      -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,noexec,user,gid=100,umask=000 :/dev/sdj

Now restart autofs and then all is GO

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​​service autofs restart​

Create the symlinks

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​​ln -s /var/hda/vol /var/hda/files/Disks​

Make browse active by edit the file autofs

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​​nano /etc/sysconfig/autofs Change line BROWSE_MODE="no" to BROWSE_MODE="yes"​

That is all, but for more see: http://www.autofs.org/autofs-man.html

Nalleju