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  Posted on December 6th, 2006

  Written by cliff

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  auto.master, auto.misc, autofs, automountd, backups, chkconfig, computer, daemon, HowTo, intr, linux, mount options, mountd, mounts, network, nfs, options, overhead, rhel, server, service, soft, storage, unix

  Setting Up The Automounter Service on RHEL

  

  Mounting filesystems in RHEL is pretty straightforward and easy. Occasionally, however, you will not want the filesystem to remain mounted all the time, but rather to automatically mount for a set period of time only when it is needed. Because of networking overhead, and the general unreliability of networks, NFS mounts are a good [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on January 1st, 2006

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  automount, automountd, auto_master, dfs, dfstab, HowTo, mount, mountd, nfs, share, shareall, solaris, storage, sun, systems administration

  Solaris Automounter

  

  Whenever you’re using NFS mount points, it’s really nice to use some type of automounter. Linux and FreeBSD use AMD to accomplish this, but Solaris uses automountd, and it’s fun and easy to use… Here is an example of a configuration that will automatically mount an NFS share and unmount it after 5 minuets of [...]

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