SOLVED: Autofs behaviour: how to show mountable resources in advance

[Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe <joao.roscoe@magnetimarelli.com.br>]

Dieter Roels wrote:

> Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote:
>
> > I have a bunch of autofs mounts in my etch box, whose doesn't show in my
> > filesystem tree until I explicitly use them, with a cd command, for 
> > instance
> > (ok, this is the intend autofs behaviour);
> >
> > My Solaris 9 boxes show a different behaviour: autofs resources do show
> > in the filesystem tree while still not mounted, as owned by root. Once I
> > effectively use them, they are mounted, and show with correct 
> > group/owner.
> >
> > That may look odd, since mounts are performed only when needed, but
> > is convenient for the user, because he/her can see in advance the 
> > resources
> > he/her can reach. Is there any way to get such behaviour with debian 
> > etch?
>
>
> Autofs should create the dirs if you add --ghost behind the entry in 
> /etc/auto.master
>
> like this:
>
> /foo    /etc/auto.foo    --ghost
>
> -D
That's *really* great! Worked as a bliss. Thank you very much,
Joao