Re: autofs example

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting Frank Trenkamp (letho@t-online.de):

> 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?

Well, I too assumed they wanted it at startup. After all, it said:

 I have a win98 partition on /dev/hdb1. I want to mount that automatically,
 instead of explicitly using 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /win98'. I looked at
 the docs for autofs but found it confusing. How do I do it?

I assumed they asked about autofs because they had assumed that's how
it *had* to be done.

Now I've never used automounting at all. What benefit does it confer
when used with a fixed partition? (I can see the virtues with
removable disks and remote machines like your NFS mount below.)

> 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

Cheers,

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