Brock Murch wrote:
>
> I don't want to see the contents of the external mounts! In the same way that
> the /carbon appears on the root's structure from the auto.master file, why
> shouldn't I see the disk1 and disk5 under it from the auto.carbon file. I
> don't want it to mount until I cd to it, or use it somehow. Isn't it just a
> matter of making a /carbon/disk1 /carbon/disk5 mount points that are then
> mounted if required?
>
No, it's not.
> I mean I could, I suppose, make a /.automount /etc/auto.automount
> -nosuid,rw,intr
>
> and then mkdir /carbon and ln -s /.automount/disk1 /carbon/disk1 etc.....
>
> but it seems that an automount program could do this easily..... am I missing
> something?
Try doing an ls -l in a large directory like this and you'll see what
you're missing.
-hpa
