Re: autofs example

[letho@t-online.de (Frank Trenkamp)]

Hello,

On Monday 12 February 2001 11:21, Hanno Böttcher wrote:
> I think you mean to mount it on startup, right? So you have to edit
> /etc/fstab.

uhm, I think, actually he meant what he said. ;) I think Robin wants to 
access his Windows partition by not mounting it at startup, but rather only 
when needed, right?

An example from my system:

root@caladan:~# cat /etc/auto.master
/amnt           /etc/auto.mnt

This file describes conf files for mountpoints under certain paths to autofs, 
in this case /etc/auto.mnt contains the configuration to apply when mounting 
under /amnt.

root@caladan:~# cat /etc/auto.mnt
gamont  -rw,no_root_squash,rsize=4096,wsize=4096                gamont:/home
win     -fstype=vfat,uid=0,gid=100,umask=002                    :/dev/hda2
cdrom   -fstype=iso9660,ro,uid=0,gid=100,umask=002              :/dev/scd0
floppy  -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,umask=002,uid=0,gid=100       :/dev/fd0

The second line describes mount options for mounting a Windows partition. As 
you can see, the first line is an NFS mount (VERY convenient ;), the third 
goes to the CD-ROM drive and the last one is for the floppy.

You should adapt "uid" and "gid" to your needs. Point to the correct device 
file, IIRC you said "/dev/hdb1".

Don't forget to restart autofs by issuing /etc/init.d/autofs restart, so your 
new config files are read. You should be able to access your Windows 
filesystem by cd'ing to /amnt/win.

Good luck,
	Frank
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