Re: setting up autofs
hi robert
to automount the floppy as a user...
first check that the user can mount the floppy
( in /etc/fstab or manually entered options
in /etc/auto.misc
...
floppy -suid,user,fstype=vfat :/dev/fd0
have fun
alvin
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Robert Voigt wrote:
> 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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