[WBEL-users] question on Automount

[Loyd]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Hooper" <whooperhsd2@earthlink.net>
To: <whitebox-users@beau.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] question on Automount


>
> Loyd said:
> > I'm having trouble with my new White Box install.  I'm trying to get two
> > fat32 volumes to mount so I can share them via SMB.
> > They won't mount automatically, like in other distributions so I did
some
> > research and found out I can use /etc/fstab or Automount, which is also
> > called Autofs?. Is that right?
> > I read that the fstab option is a drain on system resources so I decided
> > to go the Automount route.  Upon reading further however It seems to me
> > that Automount is for removable media. I don't need a timeout option to
> > mount a filesystem on a HDD, right?
>
> I'm not sure where you read that putting a mount in fstab is "a drain on
> system resources".  It sounds like you want the partitions mounted at boot
> and always mounted.  That is a job for fstab.
>
> If, however, you wanted the drives mounted on demand (say for example an
> nfs mount, or mounting a smbfs share from another server), then autofs
> might be what you want.
>
> -- 
> William Hooper

Thanks William I keep reading lots of stuff out there and you never know.