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willy

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Registered: 2006-01-19

Posts: 53

on demand mount?

Is it possible to mount a shared directory or open a directory just on demand, maybe it's not very clear, for example:
you can only access directory a by typing cd a .
it should not show up even when you do ls -a and you cannot remove it by using rm * ?

I wanted to do a search, but I'm not sure what to look for

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: on demand mount?

autofs?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Autofs

Last edited by lucke (2009-04-21 09:52:45)

willy

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Registered: 2006-01-19

Posts: 53

Re: on demand mount?

Great, thank you

willy

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Registered: 2006-01-19

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Re: on demand mount?

Hi, more question... Say for example that I want to mount all the content of /usr/local/ab to /home/willy/ab how can I do it?
in auto.master I have

/home/willy/ab      /etc/autofs/auto.ab

What should I put in auto.ab??

ab   -rw   /usr/local/ab

causes the content of /usr/local/ab to be mounted on /home/willy/ab/ab

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: on demand mount?

Wouldn't removing "/ab" from "/home/willy/ab" in auto.master work?

willy

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Registered: 2006-01-19

Posts: 53

Re: on demand mount?

that would cause all of the file in my home directory to disappear because it is now a mount point

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: on demand mount?

I don't know. Maybe someone else will assist.