On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Farkas Levente wrote: > hi, > i'm just start autofs on my desktop machine. the main reason for this > because smbfs (and also cifs) use a very high network load on my system > and i use these file very seldom, so it'd be very useful if after a few > minutes these fs can be umounted. unfortunately it seems that neither > cifs or smbfs not nfs volumes are never umounted. if they mounted once > they will remain there forever. it seems automount has the right option: > -------------------------------- > root 2007 0.0 0.0 1792 696 ? Ss Nov16 0:00 > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /smb program /etc/auto.smb > root 2041 0.0 0.0 1788 696 ? Ss Nov16 0:00 > /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /net program /etc/auto.net > -------------------------------- > i try to find out which file can hold /net or /smb but neither fuser nor > lsof can show anything. is there any way to find out something about the > status of automount? eg which files are used what is the timeout when > the timeout fill be left etc? > what can be wrong? any tip? > my system is fedora core 4 full update: > kernel-2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 > autofs-4.1.4-5 > nfs-utils-1.0.7-12.FC4 > samba-client-3.0.14a-2 > thank you for your help in advance. > yours.
I see this sort of thing from time to time but I have always been unable to find out what is causing it. Are you using a GUI. They are well known for scanning filesystems and keeping automounts active. Maybe I need to alter the autofs definition of busy. I'll think about it. Ian _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
