==> Regarding [autofs] Automounting on /. deleting entire FS!; Martin Fick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
fick> Yup, The [EMAIL PROTECTED] sys admin of my home machine, (that's me,) decided to fick> fool the automounter into using '/' to mount his partiions on and fick> lost his entire filesystem. Pouff, everything that was not a mounted fick> partition gone!!! Now I realize that I shouldn' have been deceitfull fick> to the poor little autofs daemon, I told hime to use '/.' since he fick> balked at '/', but did I really deserve this? fick> So a few questions: fick> 1) Why does the automounter delete files (or entire filesystems)? It doesn't, it simply mounted over your '/' mountpoint. If you umount /, you get what was there before (I'm guessing. never really overmounted / before). fick> 2) How can one go about automounting a cdrom on /cdrom? You could automount it in /misc/cdrom, and create a symlink. # ln -sf /misc/cdrom /cdrom fick> 3) Should this be fixed? i.e. if it's bad to use slash, then fick> should any other path that works out to be slash be checked also? :) Probably. fick> 4) Are my files really gone? Is there anything I can do to fick> recover? (it is an ext3 fs, not ext2) No, see the answer to 1) above. If you can't simply umount /, then you can boot in single user mode. This shouldn't start the automounter. Then, you can edit your automount config files to not overmount /. You should be good to go after that. fick> Still weeping/laughing, You gave me a chuckle. -Jeff _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
