Re: setting up autofs
It was not easy to find out that autofs works out of the box for floppy
and cd. It's behavior is not intuitive at all.
I also made symlinks from /floppy to /var/autofs/misc/floppy and the
same for /cd. But this causes the cdrom drive to rattle everytime I go
to / in Konqueror, and ls / hangs. Besides, I still have to type umount
if I want to remove the cd or floppy before the timeout for the
automatic unmounting. This is not what I wanted.
When I had Mandrake I just selected supermount at install and it worked
most of the time.
For now I returned to typing mount and unmount everytime I want to
access a floppy or CD. Maybe I'll shorten it with an alias.
Autofs works for the nfs filesystem, so this is at least one plus.
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