Difference between revisions of "Automount"
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According to its manual page, automount "manage[s] autofs mount points." It runs at startup and "sets up mount points for each entry in the master map, allowing them to be automatically mounted when accessed." ''autofs'' is the service program that does the mounting/unmounting when needed. | According to its manual page, automount "manage[s] autofs mount points." It runs at startup and "sets up mount points for each entry in the master map, allowing them to be automatically mounted when accessed." ''autofs'' is the service program that does the mounting/unmounting when needed. | ||
| − | == Configuration == | + | == General Configuration == |
''automount'' looks in ''/etc/auto.master'' for a map. Our setup apparently requires a non-default mapping: | ''automount'' looks in ''/etc/auto.master'' for a map. Our setup apparently requires a non-default mapping: | ||
/net /etc/auto.net | /net /etc/auto.net | ||
Revision as of 18:46, 29 June 2007
According to its manual page, automount "manage[s] autofs mount points." It runs at startup and "sets up mount points for each entry in the master map, allowing them to be automatically mounted when accessed." autofs is the service program that does the mounting/unmounting when needed.
General Configuration
automount looks in /etc/auto.master for a map. Our setup apparently requires a non-default mapping:
/net /etc/auto.net
It is important to note that that is not the default /etc/auto.net either. The detailed contents of auto.master and auto.net can be found here: Autofs Configuration Files.
On Fedora 7, once the files are added/edited, their security context may get changed as well, and it may be necessary to run restorecon -R -v /etc before restarting autofs, in order for autofs to work.
