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HOWTO Setup and Configure Autofs
21/07/08
08:36:59 am, by richard 
, 4131 words 
Categories: Ubutnu Linux, Installation and Configuration, Network and Connectivity, OS and Systems Administration
HOWTO Setup and Configure Autofs
CDROMs and DVD With A Twist.
I have two DVD players on one of my machines, not sure why now but it was probably a good idea at the time. I like to access them as 0 or 1 rather than cdrom0 and cdrom1. With a little bit of tweaking it was done like this.
Add a new entry to /etc/auto.master to read the map file, add the line and save the changes.
Example:/etc/auto.master
/mnt /etc/auto.dvd --timeout=5
We need to create the map file this will setup the cd directory with autofs and call a second map file with the configuration of the two dvd palyers. /etc/auto.dvd has just the one line as below.
Example:/etc/auto.dvd
cd -fstype=autofs file:/etc/auto.dvdsub
Finally to setup the lines that will be used to mount the two dvd players
Example:/etc/auto.dvdsub
0 -fstype=iso9660,ro,sync,nosuid,nodev :/dev/hda
1 -fstype=iso9660,ro,sync,nosuid,nodev :/dev/hdb
1 -fstype=iso9660,ro,sync,nosuid,nodev :/dev/hdb
The usual check that the files have the correct permissions already. As we changed /etc/auto.master we need to bounce the autofs daemon.
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