[CentOS] using autofs on C-7

Fri Jun 9 02:18:34 UTC 2017
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 04:02:05PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:

Kenneth:

thanks for the heads-up. I was stuck on looking for autofs tutorials,
having forgotten (if I ever knew) that systemd had subsumed that feature.

thanks again!

Fred
> On 6/8/2017 11:03 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
> >I'm trying to set up autofs on my C7 netbook so I can automount a cifs
> >share (actually two) from my NAS box, and because when I'm not at home
> >I don't want it attempting to mount it.
> 
> Automounting is now done through systemd. You just have to create
> two "unit files" to describe the mount. One holds the information
> for a static mount in fstab and the other is the automount entry
> that launches the first when its mount point is accessed.
> 
> http://blog.tomecek.net/post/automount-with-systemd/
> 
> So you'd need two files, mnt-syno\x2dfredex.mount and
> mnt-syno\x2dfredex.automount, both in /etc/systemd/system. You'll
> need an Options= clause in the .mount file for your CIFS mount
> options.
> 
> Note that the .mount file is not enabled, so it doesn't mount at
> boot time. Enable the .automount file to start at boot and it will
> start the .mount file on access.
> 
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