Hello,

This question is about auto-mounting usb drives attached to ZGemma H7S running OpenVix 5.3

I am currently using /etc/fstab to auto-mount an ext4 USB drive and a fat32 USB key at boot up and it works fine.

I am looking into autofs as an alternative but I was a bit put off by mention in the autofs man page about not being able to write to vfat filesystems that were automounted by autofs because only those with root privileges could write to them. See the "Indirect Map" example here.

Will I need to make a new group on the linux OS of OpenVix and add users to it (maybe the enigma2 user?) so that it can write (e.g: a backup image) to the fat32 drive if it was auto-mounted by autofs?

Also autofs related... on my system there is a folder /media/autofs and if I delete the autofs folder it keeps coming back. What process is creating it and how can I turn that off?

Cheers,

Flex