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< < | IMPORTANTIf you refer to any path that begins with the text/.automount , you are automatically doing something wrong. If you write to a systems administrator![]() /a not /.automount ; use of the latter guarantees that your task will fail. | |||||||
The naming scheme for automount directoriesThis section is first because I assume most users at Nevis know what | ||||||||
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/dev/hda5 486M 190M 271M 41% / /dev/hda6 2.7G 1014M 1.6G 38% /home /dev/hda7 972M 849M 72M 92% /usr | ||||||||
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< < | franklin:/mail/inbox 4.1G 3.1G 1.0G 76% /.automount/a/franklin/mail/inbox karthur:/usr/local 17G 11G 5.0G 69% /.automount/a/karthur/usr/nevis | |||||||
> > | benjamin:/mail/inbox 4.1G 3.1G 1.0G 76% /a/mail/inbox library:/usr/nevis 17G 11G 5.0G 69% /a/apps/local | |||||||
The first three filesystems are partitions on my system. The
last two are directories on remote computer systems that have been
mounted on tanya by automount : | ||||||||
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< < | You'll notice that the directory under which the remote system is
mounted is /.automount . This is an
automount convention; you should leave this directory alone (see the warning above).
If you list the name of a directory that automount monitors,
you can see the link:
# ls -ld /a/mail/inbox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jul 12 11:35 /a/mail/inbox -> /.automount/a/franklin/mail/inbox | |||||||
When you do your work, you can ignore all these links. Just access a
directory using the automount naming
scheme and let the system take care of the links for you. |