Networking Guide
Chapter 13, Configuring the NFS automounter

Creating direct automount maps

Creating direct automount maps

The syntax for a direct map is:

key [ mount_options ] location [ location ] . . .

A line whose first character is ``#'' is treated as a comment and everything that follows until the end of the line is ignored. A backslash at the end of a line permits splitting long lines into shorter ones. For details on this syntax see ``About automount maps''.

The following is a sample direct automount map:

   /usr/man            -r,soft   london:/usr/man
   /usr/spool/news     -r,soft   prague:/usr/spool/news
The first entry is the direct mount entry for the mount illustrated in Figure 13-1, ``An example of direct mounting using automount''. See the description near the figure.

The second entry mounts the filesystem /usr/spool/news from the server prague. automount creates the directories /usr, /usr/spool, and /usr/spool/news if they do not already exist. If /usr/spool/news does exist and is not empty, the mounted filesystem hides the local existing filesystem.

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