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Automount mini-Howto

Rahul Sundaram, rahulsundaram@yahoo.co.in

v1.6, 2002-12-27

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This file describes the autofs automounter, how to configure it, and points out some problems to avoid.

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1. Introduction

• 1.1 Revision History
• 1.2 Automount - what and why?
• 1.3 Types of automounting

2. Administrative

• 2.1 Copyright information
• 2.2 Disclaimer

3. Installation

4. Configuration

5. The long wait for unmounting

6. Questions

• 6.1 I don't see /auto/floppy, or whatever mountpoint I'm looking for.
• 6.2 How do I see what's mounted?
• 6.3 I put in a win95 disk ("vfat") and it was autodetected as only a regular FAT disk.
• 6.4 My filesystem /auto/grumblesmurf is mounted and kill -SIGUSR1 won't unmount it.
• 6.5 What happens if I make / the directory for the automounter
• 6.6 Can I have two map files on the same directory?
• 6.7 I'm using SuSE 6.0 and needed ---timeout instead of --timeout
• 6.8 How do I set the permissions and ownership for the filesystem (ie)FAT.
• 6.9 How to browse the content of an autofs directory, when sub-dirs are not currently mounted ?
• 6.10 Who do I thank for autofs?
• 6.11 Where can I learn more about automounting?
• 6.12 where to contact the developpers" ?.Is there a mailing-list for autofs ?

  7. Acknowledgements,feedback and dedication

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