On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote:
Hi, John. That sounds really useful, particularly on the netbook where I have to remember to disable the mounts before travelling. The only problem is, I don't know how to do that. Can you either describe it to me or point me to suitable reading? Thanks
Basically the automounter will just step in and mount things when you try to access files within the directory.
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs.html
That probably tells you everything you need, but I'll just note the basics.
Basically you can have:
/etc/auto.master:
/remote /etc/auto.remote
/etc/auto.remote:
somemount -rw,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,udp nfsserver:/blah/blah someothermount -rw,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,udp nfsserver:/foo/foo
chkconfig autofs on service autofs start
Then you should be able to do:
cd /remote/somemount
When you do that, autofs will mount the share.
There's a lot more you can do, you really do need to read the documentation. Executable automount maps and ldap based maps really give you a lot of flexibility on how you can use it, but you probably need something very simple.
jh