Re: autofs [was Re: jaz drive questions]


Subject: Re: autofs [was Re: jaz drive questions]
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 06:35:46 MST


On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Mark Brethen wrote:

> On Thursday 08 November 2001 07:55, I wrote:
>
> > I then insert a jaz disk into the jaz drive and nothing happens, I still
> > have to manually mount it. Any ideas?
>
> I found the mini-howto on automount, and fixed the auto.misc file. I still
> have to cd into /misc/hfs_jaz to get the jaz disk to mount. Is that the way
> it works? Also, Is it ok to have it listed in fstab as well?
>

Yes, you need to have some activity in the mount point for the automounter
to know to mount the device :) Also, after some time of idle activity
(setable in the config file) , it will unmount the device. You don't need
to cd in to the direcorty its self, just make a symbolic link to the mount
point and cd into that, you may need to change the permissions on the
mount point so that non-root users can access as well.

-n

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