/etc/auto.master - Master Map for automounter


DESCRIPTION

       The auto.master map is consulted when the autofs(8) script
       is invoked to set up the necessary mount  points  for  the
       automounter.   Each  line  in  this file describes a mount
       point and points to another file describing the file  sys­
       tems  to  be  mounted under this mountpoint. The access to
       those maps is governed by a key.

       Access to an automounted file system is  customarily  done
       using the path scheme:

       /mountpoint/key/path/file,

       where  the  mountpoint  will  be listed in the auto.master
       configuration file. The key is matched  in  the  map  file
       pointed  to  by  the master map (See autofs(5)).  The path
       and the file are referring to the file on the file  system
       mounted.


FORMAT

       The file has three fields separated by an arbitrary number
       of blanks or tabs. Lines beginning with  #  are  comments.
       The  first  field  is the mount point. Second field is the
       map file to be consulted for this mount-point.  This field
       is  of  the  form maptype:mapname, where maptype is one of
       the supported map types (file, program, yp, nisplus,  hes­
       iod,  userdir,  ldap), and mapname is the name of the map.
       The third field is optional and can contain options to+ be
       applied to all entries in the map. Options are cumulative,
       which is a difference from the behavior of the SunOS auto­
       mounter.

       The  format  of the map file and the options are described
       in autofs(5).


EXAMPLE

         /home     /etc/auto.home
         /misc     /etc/auto.misc
         /mnt      yp:mnt.map

       This will generate three  mountpoints  /home,  /misc,  and
       /mnt.  All accesses to /home will lead to the consultation
       of the map in /etc/auto.home, all accesses to  /misc  will
       consult  the  map  in  /etc/auto.misc, and all accesses to
       /mnt will consult the NIS map mnt.map.


SEE ALSO

       automount(8), autofs(5), autofs(8).


AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written  by   Christoph   Lameter

       Edited by <hpa@transmeta.com>.


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