Re: Getting autofs to work.
Incoming from R. Clayton:
> [huge snip]
> Assuming I didn't know what noauto meant, I commented out those entries in
> /etc/fstab
>
> $ cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/hda3 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
> /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> #/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
> #/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
Are you sure you're not confusing two entirely unrelated things? I
think of automounter as being related to NFS (not to mention being a
huge pain in the butt).
You shouldn't need to go through all this if all you're looking for is
automatic filesystem type detection at mount time, which is what the
/etc/fstab stuff is all about. For the record, the entries in your
fstab mean (respectively):
auto in column 3 - figure out what filesystem type is on this
thing, then mount it.
noauto in column 4 - don't automatically mount this filesystem at
boot time.
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