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'automountd.conf' Configuration file

  This file names all volumes for automountd to check for present media. It consists of lines in the format explained below. Normally it should be located in /etc. See the source comments to change this default. Lines starting with a '#' sign are comments. The format used is quite similar to fstab with some options missing. Spaces and tabs can be used to separate the fields on one line, a newline ends one record. The maximum number of lines is equal to the maximum positive number that can be represented using an integer (this is normally about ). The line length is not restricted, but be shure to end each line (including the last one) with a newline character. Please note that the Options field must be present. If no options are used, put a '-' there, as shown in the example below. Do not use device names longer than about 255 characters.
Format of automountd.conf gif:


Adding any floppy drives to the daemon configuration file without the ``NOPOLL'' flag is not a good idea, as these drives may wear out. Devices with this flag are not mounted automatically, but can be forced to be checked with the volcheck (See section 2.3) command.

One important note regarding ZIP Drives: Be sure to have a valid disk in the drive at the time automountd starts. This can be ejected afterwards without any harm. The kernel is content if it was able to read a partition table from the disk and won't try again until an actual disk change occurrs. Otherwise (if no disk was present on the start of automountd, each mount request will generate several error messages from the kernel, which will increase the system load considerably.

Another thing to say about ZIP's: For SCSI drives /dev/zip used above should be a link to /dev/sdX4, where X is the drive identifier as in /dev/sda4. Disks formatted for ext2 should use /dev/sdX1. I do not know how the partitions to use are when parallel or IDE drives are used. See the ZIP-Mini-HOWTO.

As of version 0.09.03 additional per-device options are supported:

The option section starts at the end of the name section and continues to the end of the line (or the next comment character). Options can be specified upper- or lowercase, separated by commas, spaces, tabs or even nothing at all. To enhance readability, this is not recommended ...


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Fri Sep 25 18:04:42 GMT 1998