Mark M. Hoffman on 16 Dec 2004 22:33:37 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Understanding Autofs and Automount .


Hello:

* Sandhu, Suchindra <suchindra@gmail.com> [2004-12-16 13:44:36 -0500]:
> > "xxx    -fstype=autofs    :/xhome/auto"

* Dan Widyono <dan@widyono.net> [2004-12-16 16:59:48 -0500]:
> You're missing the NFS server hostname here before the colon.  Is it xhome?
> xhome:/xhome/auto assuming that the exported fs is /xhome/auto on the server
> named xhome.

Also, what is "-fstype=autofs"?  If you're automounting an NFS server as Dan
suggests, you'll want something like this, e.g.

	foo	-intr,hard,rsize=8192,wsize=8192	server:/foo

To automount a local device, you might use this:

	cdrom	-fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev		:/dev/cdrom

Regards,

-- 
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman@lightlink.com

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