Networking Guide
Chapter 13, Configuring the NFS automounter

Direct automount maps

Direct automount maps

Direct maps are used to specify direct mounts and contain a separate entry for each direct mount point. A direct map entry can also contain pointers to other maps that automount should read (that is, nested maps). There can be more than one direct map. Map nesting is described in the section ``Mixing local and distributed automount maps''.

The syntax for a direct map is:

key [ mount_options ] location [ location ] . . .

Here:

key
Is the full pathname of the mount point.

mount_options
Are the options you want to apply to this particular mount. Options specified here override options that may be specified elsewhere for this direct map (for example, in the master map or on the automount command line). You may specify options here that are defined for NFS-type mounts in the mount(ADM) reference manual page, excluding bg (background) and fg (foreground), which do not apply.

location
Is the location of the resource, specified as server:pathname[:subdirectory]. Use of the optional subdirectory field is explained in ``Optimizing subdirectory mounting''. The use of multiple locations is explained in ``Specifying redundant servers''.
For an example direct map, see ``Creating indirect and direct automount maps''.