hi david
your /etc/auto.master says to use /autofs as the mount point
...
> /autofs /etc/auto.test
your /etc/auto.test says that you will be autmounting
the remote filessytem crir-a136.univ-savoie.fr:/data
to your local file system at /autofs/data
...
> data -rw,fstype=nfs crir-a136.univ-savoie.fr:/data
doing an ls -la /autofs will show nothing... since nothing
is yet mounted....
if you try to access something ( /autofs/data or autofs/* )
then the automounter will mount the remote fs to /autofs
you do NOT get to manage anything in the /autofs directory...
amything you put there will(should) be overwritten by the automounter
( good and bad ...depending on point of view )
for fun...
root# touch /autofs/file_that_will_disappear.txt
root# mkdir /autofs/directory_that_will_disappear
root# ln -s /tmp/junk /autofs
root# ls -la /autofs
- should only show the mount point permissions
root# ls -la /autofs/*
- should only show /autofs/data ???
if you wanna do things like /n on a sun environment...
than you'd need mroe symlinks ...
mkdir /n
ln -s /autofs/server1 /n
ln -s /autofs/server2 /n
diff /n/server1/etc/passwd /n/server2/etc/passwd
have fun linuxing
alvin
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, David Berard wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> thank you for your reply.
>
> So, all is OK, I just haven't understand the internal working of autofs.
>
> It's just seem a bit silly to me, that autofs don't show the differents
> mount point of a map in the map's directory.
> If I mount data in /autofs, I must change directory to /autofs/data for
> seeing it... But if I don't known the existence of /autofs/data, how can I
> do that ???
>
> Is the symbolic link the only solution ?
>
