Thierry de Coulon wrote:

On Thursday 24 September 2015 11.39:33 Per Jessen wrote:

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Just before I go delve further into the automount options - does anyone happen to know if I can have autofs only mount certain mountpoints, and not others?

Any mountpoint I have defined in fstan (with noauto) won't automount, while others will. That's the only option I know, but there may be others.

Hi Thierry I'm talking using the automount daemon, not running "mount -a". Usually automount looks after an entire directory, such as /var/lib/capitals and anything under there is handled by automount. I was just wondering if there was a way of telling automount that "capitals/oslo" is local and need no mounting where as "capitals/copenhagen" is remote and needs mounting. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.2°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

What you cannot do is to have indirect map for /capitals and then exclude /capitals/Oslo. At least, I am not aware of this possibility.

Well, at least that confirms my own results sofar - I can't find such a possiblity either. Thanks for the reply, Andrei. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (10.1°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote:

* Per Jessen [2015-09-24 04:39]:

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Just before I go delve further into the automount options - does anyone happen to know if I can have autofs only mount certain mountpoints, and not others?

I haven't used the automounter in quite some time but used to be a rather heavy user. IIRC, what you want is a "direct" mount.

See auto.master(5): "direct maps". There are some direct map examples in autofs(5).

Indirect maps take over an entire mount point, whereas direct maps allow placing individual mount points (as absolute paths).

--Phil

Hi Phil Yeah, I realize that's (indirect maps) what I have atm. I set it up myself a few years ago, I've forgotten how this stuff works. Well, I can't change the indirect mapping, so I'll have to think up something else. thanks Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.9°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org