>I tried the below
>On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 06:10, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> Milos Prudek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was looking forward to use supermount but it does not work very well
> > in Mandrake 9.0. Details in separate post. So I tried autofs.
> >
> > Autofs in Mandrake 9.0 mounts drives automatically, but does not unmount
> > them when timeout expires. They must by umounted manually.
> >
> > auto.master:
> > /mnt /etc/auto.drives --timeout=20
>
> Ignore bropken man pages and do this:
>
>Did this for auto.master
> /mnt /etc/auto.drives --timeout 20
>
> the = doesn't work. use a space.
>
> I have over 20 linux workstations with autofs working fine. Took awile
> to track down this problem.
>
>
>Did this for auto.drive
> > auto.drives:
> > cdrom -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom
> > floppy -fstype=auto,user,rw :/dev/fd0
>Started autofs and all the mount points under /mnt had disappeared
>making it impossible to go to say the cdrom using mc.
>Also is there a fix for the cdrom and floppy icons on the desktop to
>work?
>Currently got everything back on manual mounting.
you are close, what you need to do is simply create some soft links
if auto.drives mounts stuff under /mnt (create a /drives, leave /mnt open for the needed manual mounts)
then create a /media and in it 'ln -sf /mnt/cdrom cdrom'
so if a cd is in the drive but the mount has expired and been removed, as soon as you ls /media it will atempt to look at /media/cdrom and thus remount the device again since it was being accessed indirectly.
for more info check out Linux Journal Issue April 2002 #96, the article Virtual CDROM Jukebox goes into a discussion on this topic.
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