Automount

[Wechter, Ron]

OK - I answered my own question.  I was getting confused on the floppy disk
mount.  I noticed (I never have to copy data to floppy disks - I always used
to working with everything over the network) that the /etc/fstab has a
listing for "noauto" for /dev/fd0 -- This means for autofs to not automount
AND (the biggest of them all) when I went to unmount the file system (floppy
disk) it would not unmount.  Well my pwd was still /mnt/floppy/ and it would
not unmount because the disk cache was still being used (I was in the dir) 

Long story short - I was not using common sense AND my inexperience with
mounting floppy disks got the best of me.

****Does this theory hold true for network files sytems too?  If a file is
being used in the files sytem will linux be able to unmount it if needed?
Can more than one computer mount the same files sytem (network resource?).  

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Wechter, Ron [mailto:WechterR at cnrc.navy.mil]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:26 PM
To: 'nflug at nflug.org'
Subject: Automount


Automount in Redhat 7.1

autofs is installed and the RPM query states that it will automagically
mount and unmount file systems, including floppy drives.  Does this actually
work?  The daemon is running but I still have to mount and unmount the
/dev/fd0 everytime I put a floppy disk in there.  

Do I have to invoke something or should I do a rpm -e and did it the ol
fashioned way?

Ron