This is a description of the text file format. Other methods of
specifying these files may exist. All empty lines or lines
beginning with # are ignored. The basic format of one line in
such maps is:
key [-options] location
key
For indirect mounts this is the part of the path name
between the mount point and the path into the filesystem
when it is mounted. Usually you can think about the key as
a sub-directory name below the autofs managed mount point.
For direct mounts this is the full path of each mount
point. This map is always associated with the /- mount
point in the master map.
options
Zero or more options may be given. Options can also be
given in the auto.master file in which case both values
are cumulative (this is a difference from SunOS). The
options are a list of comma separated options as customary
for the mount(8) command.
There are several special options
-fstype=
is used to specify a filesystem type if the
filesystem is not of the default NFS type. This
option is processed by the automounter and not by
the mount command.
-strict
is used to treat errors when mounting file systems
as fatal. This is important when multiple file
systems should be mounted (`multi-mounts'). If this
option is given, no file system is mounted at all
if at least one file system can't be mounted.
-use-weight-only
is used to make the weight the sole factor in
selecting a server when multiple servers are
present in a map entry.
-no-use-weight-only
can be used to negate the option if it is present
in the master map entry for the map but is not
wanted for the given mount.
location
The location specifies from where the file system is to be
mounted. In the most cases this will be an NFS volume and
the usual notation host:pathname is used to indicate the
remote filesystem and path to be mounted. If the
filesystem to be mounted begins with a / (such as local
/dev entries or smbfs shares) a : needs to be prefixed
(e.g. :/dev/sda1).
