Alvin Oga wrote:
> /etc/auto.master
> /.autofs/etc/auto.misc --timeout 600
I found that with the debian autofs init script (/etc/init.d/autofs),
the timeout option wasn't parsed properly unless it was specified like
so (YMMV):
/.autofs/etc/auto.misc timeout=600
hi robin
donno if its been answered or not... ( been away from email for a week )
-- first make sure your amn manually mount the partition
you need to fix /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.misc
( auto.misc is something that is referenced from auto.master
/etc/auto.master
/.autofs
Frank Trenkamp wrote:
An example from my system:
Hmm cool, I'd like to check this out, yes, I'm sure I somewhere enabled
autofs-support, but: which package do I need? I can't find anything like
autofs.
Hi,
> > In my opinion it's a question of comfort. It saves typing, as you can
> > omit su, sudo etc. and the actual mount command. Ok ok, it's for the real
> > lazy kind like me .. ;)
> >
> > On the other hand, if you wanted to remove, say, a floppy before autofs's
> > timeout, you do need to unmo
Say you have a machine with 8+ disks you share out to users. They may or may
not
need all 8 disks. You put the automounter on them. If the user CD's into
the directory it mounts up, and later unmounts.
This makes things simpler if the server or disk goes down for some reason. It
wont h
Quoting Frank Trenkamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Now I've never used automounting at all. What benefit does it confer
> > when used with a fixed partition? (I can see the virtues with
> > removable disks and remote machines like your NFS mount below.)
>
> In my opinion it's a question of comfort.
Hello again,
> Well, I too assumed they wanted it at startup. After all, it said:
>
> I assumed they asked about autofs because they had assumed that's how
> it *had* to be done.
Uhm, I assumed that since he knew how to mount it explicitly he also knew how
to enter it in /etc/fstab *if* he wante
Quoting Frank Trenkamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Monday 12 February 2001 11:21, Hanno Böttcher wrote:
> > I think you mean to mount it on startup, right? So you have to edit
> > /etc/fstab.
>
> uhm, I think, actually he meant what he said. ;) I think Robin wants to
> access his Windows partition
Hello,
On Monday 12 February 2001 11:21, Hanno Böttcher wrote:
> I think you mean to mount it on startup, right? So you have to edit
> /etc/fstab.
uhm, I think, actually he meant what he said. ;) I think Robin wants to
access his Windows partition by not mounting it at startup, but rather only
Quoting Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I have a win98 partition on /dev/hdb1. I want to mount that automatically,
> instead of explicitly using 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /win98'. I looked at
> the docs for autofs but found it confusing. How do I do it?
Put a line like this late on in /etc/fstab:
bian Users
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 8:24 AM
Subject: autofs example
> I have a win98 partition on /dev/hdb1. I want to mount that automatically,
> instead of explicitly using 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /win98'. I looked at
> the docs for autofs but found it confusing. Ho
I have a win98 partition on /dev/hdb1. I want to mount that automatically,
instead of explicitly using 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /win98'. I looked at
the docs for autofs but found it confusing. How do I do it?
Thanks.
Robin
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