[Gllug] NFS mounts and shared directories

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On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Dylan wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> three queries:
> 
> A) I've got a DVD drive on a server which I have set up over NFS to manually 
> mount (fstab entry):
> 
> host:/dvd	/dvd	nfs	ro,user,suid,dev,exec,noauto,async 0 0
> 
> then a desktop link to mount from client machine. Is there a way of 
> auto-unmounting the drive when the user logs out?


if your using the automount(er), then i think what you could do, is create
a symlink from /net/{nfs.server.hostname}/dvd to /dvd

that way it gets auto matically mounted upon request, and after a while of
non use gets unmounted.

oh, this requires setting up the automount maps properly.


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