On Friday 22 June 2001 12:19 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
I am not sure I know what you are referring to. The ls -l , that I am talking
about, should only show the keys designated in the auto.carbon map. Unless
you have a huge map file, then there shouldn't be a problem
>
> -hpa
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Brock Murch
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University of South Florida
Remote Sensing Laboratory
System Administrator / Programmer
X-Band Manager
