On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 23:17 -0500, chris barry wrote: > I've googled, but have not found an answer to this seemingly simple > question. > > I'm automounting /foo from box1 on box2. /foo has no files, just other > directories, one of which is bar.
No you're not. You're mounting individual directories from box2. Things like, /foo/bar, /foo/baz, etc, are mounted individually, as requests to access them come in. > > box2 $ cd /foo > box2 $ ls > box2 $ (nothing shows up) > box2 $ cd bar > box2 $ cd .. > box2 $ ls > bar > box2 $ > > > Q: how do I get all of the directories under /foo to show up after it's > automounted? > > /etc/auto.master > /foo /etc/auto.foo --timeout=60 > > /etc/auto.foo > (all on one line) > * / > -fstype=nfs,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,rw,bg,hard,intr,noacl,nocto,async > 10.20.30.40:/foo/& How would autofs know what these directories are, to create them, from that map, * doesn't really say much and, even though this map has an ip address in the location others may not? Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
