Re: autofs

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi mirek, caleb

the mount point for autofs should be a directory NOT shared
by others... otherwise... some dirs might disappear for a few minutes

i like /.autofs  for anything autofs related
and /.amd  for anything amd related

and /mnt reserved for users/system to play with 

/etc/auto.master
	/.autofs	/etc/auto.floppy --timeout=60

sometimes floppy cannot be mounted by a user... other than root...
( different options seems to work for varying reasons...

/etc/auto.floppy 
	# which ever works for you
	# floppy  -suid,user,fstype=auto   :/dev/fd0
	# floppy  umask=000,fstype=auto   :/dev/fd0

dont forget to restart autofs if you make changes
	
ln -s /.autofs/floppy /mnt/floppy   or /floppy

ls -ls /mnt/floppy should magically work

have fun linuxing
alvin
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html


On 12 Feb 2002, Caleb Shay wrote:

> Understabable.  I've found the autofs documentation to be a bit hard to
> follow also, but I did eventually figure it out.  You can't have a mount
> point of "/", so use something convenient like "/mnt", however, you can
> then set up a symlink so that it looks like it's at /.  Try this:
> 
> In /etc/auto.master
> /mnt	/etc/auto.mnt --timeout=5
> 
> In /etc/auto.mnt
> floppy	-fstype=auto,sync	:/dev/fd0
> 
> Then:
> ln -s /mnt/floppy /floppy
> 
> Then whenever you try to access /floppy it will automatically mount
> /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy, but because of the symlink you can access it as
> /floppy.  After 5 seconds of not trying to access /floppy (and not being
> in the directory in any shell) it will unmount it.
> 
> The big confusion came to me because there are actually 2 man pages for
> autofs, and the default one doesn't really explain the format of the
> files.  Try "man 5 autofs".
> 
> Caleb
> 
> On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 11:40, Mirek Dobsicek wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I feel a bit lost in running autofs.
> > 
> > I've installed autofs package, compilled  autofs4 support into kernel
> > and hoped that now my /floppy becomes automounted, but no :-((
> > 
> > I read man pages from autofs and auto.master, but i'm too lame to
> > understand it. Please help me.
> >