Automount question

[ian-cwAjtnUKHr2dFdvTe/nMLpVzexx5G7lz at public.gmane.org (Ian Levesque)]

On Aug 9, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> I have a situation where I have a directory I want to automount:
> eg. /mnts/foo
> In my auto.master I have /mnts   /etc/auto.mnts
> My /etc/auto.mnts is
> foo    -fstype=nfs,rw,nosuid  <host0>:/exports/foo
> 
> This works fine, but for a transition period I will be moving some of
> foo's subdirectories individually so I want to automount
> <host1>:/mnts/foo/clients
> 
> I've been playing around with this such as creating another entry in
> auto.master /mnts/foo/, and /etc/auto.foo contains
> clients -fstype... <host1>:/mnts/foo/clients

I think your problem is because you can create an autofs entry within another autofs mountpoint.

If possible, I would remove the /mnts entry from your master autofs config and instead use /mnts/foo and then define each directory as its own mount. Depending on your NFS server, you might need to define your exports to allow subdirectory mounting.

Best,
Ian