Chapter 34. HP-UX Automounter
Chapter Syllabus
34.1 Automounter Maps
34.2 Configuring Automounter
Automounter may be considered an additional service to an NFS client. An NFS client usually mounts file systems from the NFS server at boot time and keeps these file systems mounted while the system is up. The file systems are unmounted at system shutdown time. The Automounter, on the other hand, mounts remote file systems only when needed. If a mounted file system is not accessed for a specified period of time, it is automatically unmounted. The automount daemon keeps this process totally transparent from the user. Automounter is a client-side service and is installed with the NFS client. All file systems and directories should be exported by NFS in ...
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