hi mirek, caleb
the mount point for autofs should be a directory NOT shared
by others... otherwise... some dirs might disappear for a few minutes
i like /.autofs for anything autofs related
and /.amd for anything amd related
and /mnt reserved for users/system to play with
/etc/auto.master
/.autofs /etc/auto.floppy --timeout=60
sometimes floppy cannot be mounted by a user... other than root...
( different options seems to work for varying reasons...
/etc/auto.floppy
# which ever works for you
# floppy -suid,user,fstype=auto :/dev/fd0
# floppy umask=000,fstype=auto :/dev/fd0
dont forget to restart autofs if you make changes
ln -s /.autofs/floppy /mnt/floppy or /floppy
ls -ls /mnt/floppy should magically work
have fun linuxing
alvin
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
On 12 Feb 2002, Caleb Shay wrote:
> Understabable. I've found the autofs documentation to be a bit hard to
> follow also, but I did eventually figure it out. You can't have a mount
> point of "/", so use something convenient like "/mnt", however, you can
> then set up a symlink so that it looks like it's at /. Try this:
>
> In /etc/auto.master
> /mnt /etc/auto.mnt --timeout=5
>
> In /etc/auto.mnt
> floppy -fstype=auto,sync :/dev/fd0
>
> Then:
> ln -s /mnt/floppy /floppy
>
> Then whenever you try to access /floppy it will automatically mount
> /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy, but because of the symlink you can access it as
> /floppy. After 5 seconds of not trying to access /floppy (and not being
> in the directory in any shell) it will unmount it.
>
> The big confusion came to me because there are actually 2 man pages for
> autofs, and the default one doesn't really explain the format of the
> files. Try "man 5 autofs".
>
> Caleb
>
> On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 11:40, Mirek Dobsicek wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I feel a bit lost in running autofs.
> >
> > I've installed autofs package, compilled autofs4 support into kernel
> > and hoped that now my /floppy becomes automounted, but no :-((
> >
> > I read man pages from autofs and auto.master, but i'm too lame to
> > understand it. Please help me.
> >
