Re: mounting nfs directory using autofs

Chris Rouch wrote:

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:30:43 -0500, Steven J. Brown
<sbrown3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm trying to use autofs in its simplest possible form, following
examples in Red Hat's documentation, to mount an nfs directory from my
desktop pc to my notebook.  Everything seems to be in place because I
can mount the nfs export manually (at the command line or with
/etc/fstab) with no problem.  I want to do this because I connect my
notebook to three different networks (or sometimes I don't connect to a
network) and on startup, the notebook seems to take forever looking for
the networks (to mount smbfs/nfs/ncpfs directories) that arent' there.
I'm hoping that autofs will reduce boot time.  To get started, I tried a
simple one.  Here's how I've set it up:

Server (Desktop PC):
/etc/exports:
/home/sbrown    192.168.2.3(rw,sync)

Notebook:
/etc/auto.master:
/misc   /etc/auto.misc

/etc/hosts:
192.168.2.4   dadlx

/etc/auto.misc:
dad -rw,soft,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 dadlx:/home/sbrown

For my nfs automounts I always use '-fstype=nfs', e.g.
dad      -fstype=nfs             dadlx:/home/sbrown

Regards,

Chris

As it turns out, it's working. I didn't think it was working because when I did 'ls /misc', I expected to see an /misc/dad directory. Had I tried typing 'ls /misc/dad', the dad subdirectory would be mounted and I'd be able to see the contents.

The interesting thing is that when I changed 'dad' to '*' as suggested by Ankush Grover, I could type 'ls /misc/anythingiwant' and see the contents of the nfs directory. I could mount the same directory multiple times just by typing something else after '/misc'.

Thanks for your reply.

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