On Friday 23 September 2005 19:13, Luca Dionisi wrote: > Hi folks > > I've just finished the installation of autofs, following the > instructions of BLFS in chapter 3. I was curious to see > if it was useful. > It is working... I think. But I have a few questions: > > 1. when I look in the mount point I can't see anything. > For example, I do a "ls /mnt" and there is no files nor > directories. But when I do "ls /mnt/cd" then the cdrom > is mounted. > Is this the correct way that autofs is expected to do? > Isn't it a little confusing the fact that I can't see which > are the devices I can mount?
I suggest that you have the actual autofs directory be somewhere else, eg /var/autofs, and have each mountplace be a symlink in /mnt to /var/autofs, eg /mnt/cd -> /var/autofs/cd. When you do ls /mnt, currently usable devices will be valid symlinks (light blue if your ls output is colored) and unusable devices will be invalid symlinks (red in ls.) Caveat: Doing an ls on /mnt can take a long time this way! > 2. when I have mounted a cdrom, the timeout (yes, I > know I can configure the value) ... is it the only way > to remove the cd? I mean, is there no way to remove > the cd before the inactivity timeout expires? Even > if there is no user or process accessing the files in > it? ...ehm, I mean without being root. Why is this a problem? Just set the timeout lower if it is locking the drive. If there's no user or process accessing it, it shouldn't be mounted; a timeout of two seconds is fine for CDs. Nick Matteo -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
