Automount mini-Howto

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1. Introduction

• 1.1 Automount - what and why
• 1.2 Types of automounting

2. Installation

3. Configuration

4. That long wait to unmount

5. Questions

• 5.1 I don't see /auto/floppy, or whatever mountpoint I'm looking for.
• 5.2 How do I see what's mounted?
• 5.3 I put in a win95 disk ("vfat") and it autodetected it as only a regular FAT disk.
• 5.4 My filesystem /grumblesmurf is mounted and kill -SIGUSR1 won't unmount it.
• 5.5 Who do I thank for autofs?
• 5.6 Where can I learn more about automounting?