Heh... maybe you can kill two birds with one stone here. What if you create /cdrom, /floppy, ... as symblinks to /auto/cdrom, /auto/floppy, ...? Then whenever you access /cdrom, the kernel's gonna try to access /auto/cdrom, which will then tell autofs to check the CDROM and mount it if necessary.
Just an idea. I personally don't like automounting at all, partly because I can't tell when it's mounting and unmounting and I can't be sure if I can just pop my floppy out, and it doesn't let me eject the CD sometimes, it doesn't recognize new floppy properly when I swap in a new floppy, ... -Mark On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > hi all, > > i just learned how to configure and use autofs. works great except for > a few minor glitches. > > one of the minor glitches is that the mount point, say, /auto/cdrom, > disappears until the filesystem gets mount. for example, this produces > no output: > > $ ls /auto/ > > however, this produces the the directory listing for the cd drive: > > $ ls /auto/cdrom > > in other words, when automount runs, the mount point is not there until > you ls or cd into the directory. when the filesystem gets unmounted, > the mount point directory again disappears. > > i googled for this, and found that other people experience the same > thing. it kind of sucks because: > > 1. can't use filename completion (which i rely on) > > 2. graphical file openers cannot reach the filesytem. > > 3. having to tickle the directory before you use it is just > very unaesthetic. > > does anybody know a way around this? in other words, does anybody know > how to keep the directories visible even when the filesystem isn't > mounted? > > i could've sworn i've installed mandrake systems at our IF's that had > this behavior.... > > > > another minor glitch is that it appears you can't automount onto a top > level directory. in other words, i can have the cd automount into > /auto/cdrom but not into /cdrom. this is frustrating, because i really > like having the mountpoint /cdrom. can someone confirm or refute this? > if possible, i'd REALLY like to have /cdrom, /floppy, and /jaz automount > rather than /auto/cdrom, /auto/floppy, and /auto/jaz. > > thanks! > pete > > -- > GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg > GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/ PGP key available upon request. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
