mounting nfs directory using autofs
Chris Rouch
chris.rouch at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 13:20:31 UTC 2005
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:30:43 -0500, Steven J. Brown
<sbrown3 at optonline.net> 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
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