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Automount mini-Howto

don@sabotage.org

v0.4, 17 April 1999

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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 Automount - what and why
• 1.2 Types of automounting

2. Installation

3. Configuration

4. That long wait to unmount

5. Questions

• 5.1 I don't see /auto/floppy, or whatever mountpoint I'm looking for.
• 5.2 How do I see what's mounted?
• 5.3 I put in a win95 disk ("vfat") and it was autodetected as only a regular FAT disk.
• 5.4 My filesystem /auto/grumblesmurf is mounted and kill -SIGUSR1 won't unmount it.
• 5.5 What happens if I make / the directory for the automounter
• 5.6 Can I have two map files on the same directory?
• 5.7 I'm using SuSE 6.0 and needed ---timeout instead of --timeout
• 5.8 How do I set the permissions and ownership for the filesystem (IE FAT)
• 5.9 Who do I thank for autofs?
• 5.10 Where can I learn more about automounting?

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