auto.master

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NAME
       /etc/auto.master - Master Map for automounter

DESCRIPTION
       The  auto.master map is consulted when the autofs(8) script is invoked
       to set up the necessary mount points for the automounter.   Each	 line
       in  this	 file  describes  a  mount  point  and points to another file
       describing the file systems to be mounted under this  mountpoint.  The
       access to those maps is governed by a key.

       For  indirect  automount	 maps access to an automounted file system is
       customarily done using the path scheme:

       /mountpoint/key/path/file,

       where the mountpoint will be listed in the  auto.master	configuration
       file.  The key is matched in the map file pointed to by the master map
       (See autofs(5)).	 The path and the file are referring to the  file  on
       the  file system mounted.  For direct automount maps access is via the
       full path to the filesystem as given in the associated map. The mount-
       point  for the direct map is always specified as /- in the auto.master
       map.

FORMAT
       The file has three fields separated by an arbitrary number  of  blanks
       or  tabs.  Lines beginning with # are comments. The first field is the
       mount point. Second field is the map file to  be	 consulted  for	 this
       mount-point.  This field is of the form maptype:mapname, where maptype
       is one of the supported map types (file, program, yp, nisplus, hesiod,
       userdir,	 ldap),	 and mapname is the name of the map.  The third field
       is optional and can contain options to be applied to  all  entries  in
       the map. Options without a leading dash are passed on (with -o) to the
       mount command.  Those options preceded by a dash	 are  considered  map
       options.	 Options can be separated by commas or spaces.	For example:

       /home	 /etc/auto.home ro,intr -DOSREL=3.0E

       The  option  string  "-o hard,intr" is passed to the mount command for
       each of the entries in the auto.home map.  The  option  "-DOSREL=3.0E"
       is parsed by the map format specific parser.

       Options are cumulative, which is a difference from the behavior of the
       SunOS automounter.

       The format of the map file and the options are described in autofs(5).

EXAMPLE
	 /home	   /etc/auto.home
	 /misc	   /etc/auto.misc
	 /mnt	   yp:mnt.map

       This  will  generate  three  mountpoints	 /home, /misc, and /mnt.  All
       accesses to /home  will	lead  to  the  consultation  of	 the  map  in
       /etc/auto.home,	all  accesses  to  /misc  will	consult	 the  map  in
       /etc/auto.misc, and all accesses to /mnt	 will  consult	the  NIS  map
       mnt.map.

SEE ALSO
       automount(8), autofs(5), autofs(8).

AUTHOR
       This  manual page was written by Christoph Lameter <chris@waterf.org>,
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system.	 Edited by <hpa@transmeta.com>.



				  9 Sep 1997		       AUTO.MASTER(5)