Comments on: A quick swing past autofs

By: bryan

bryan — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:02:07 +0000

I enjoyed this post, mostly because it made me aware of something I didn’t realize that autofs did (auto unmounting). I’m currently reinstalling & configuring arch on a netbook and, while I have most things installed and running currently (surf, tabbed, dwm, statnot, mpd, feh), I still haven’t installed thunar, my GUI file manager of choice. With either autofs or skvm, the suckless implementation of a volume manager, I’m considering not installing thunar at all since a large portion of thunar’s draw to me is thunar-volman.

Thanks for the post!

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:13:13 +0000

That is pretty cool. I’ll have to set that up and see how it works. Thanks for the pointer.

By: igro

igro — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:56:15 +0000

I use autofs for one cool thing: automounting sshfs. It’s really useful, when you just want to read/write a few files from a remote server and you don’t want to ssh into it just for that. So you just cd (or use mc/whatever) into the mount point, autofs automagically connects and voila, the contents of the server are part of your filesystem now and you can use your favourite editor to edit them, etc. And the best thing is, after some idle time, autofs automatically disconnects. Really cool stuff