Automount volumes from other Solaris machines.. 1

[govinds]

HI,

How do I ensure that certain mount points that I manually mount from another machine, remain mounted even if I reboot the machine in which they are mounted??
Which file do I put in the commands and what commands??
I tried mnttab, but it seems it is read-only..

Govind..

 

[cfsalmeida]

You can put NFS mounts on "/etc/vfstab", so they will be mounted at boot time if NFS server is available,the syntax is:

remotemach:/remotepart - localpart nfs - yes [options]

For example, to mount the /usr/local partition, you would enter:

bigserver:/usr/local - /usr/local nfs - yes -

To mount it readonly, you would enter:

bigserver:/usr/local - /usr/local nfs - yes ro

Consult the vfstab man page if you're interested in knowing what the fields that contain "-"s and "yes" are for, for the most part, they're only relevant for non-NFS mounts.


Hope this helps,

Regards,

Carlos Almeida.

 

[govinds]

Can I also use /etc/auto_home and /etc/auto_direct to do the same??

 

[mikeclark]

When mounting remote filesystems it is a good idea to use options of " soft,bg ".
If the remote machine goes down your system can hang waiting for access to a remote filesystem. By using soft and background as options, your system will still operate without the remote filesystems being mounted.

 

[bhawani123]

Hello Govinds,

whatever you want to mount at booting time.Just keep in auto_direct and auto_indirect file and insure that your automountd daemon should work.

thanks,

ajay

 

[govinds]

Ajay,

What does the file auto_indirect do??

Govind..