Drive mounting using autofs daemon

[Paul Mora]

Hi.

When you use autofs, the mountpoint does not get created until you access
the mountpoint under /misc.  So, if you use the sample file that is included
in Red Hat / Fedora, the CD will be mounted when you access the /misc/cd
directory.

So you have to access the directory "blind"... that is, by CD'ing into a
directory that looks like it doesn't exist.  Keep in mind that autofs is
managing all access to /misc, and comparing what you're trying to do with
what you have configured; so it's when you access /misc/cd that the
mountpoint gets created, and the CD mounted.  After the timeout period (60
seconds), it gets unmounted and the mountpoint removed.

pm

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Paul Mora
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