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AUTOFS
 June 2, 2021  Atul Rajput  0 Comment

AutoFS is a utility that mount local or remote drives only when they are accessed
and if you don’t use them, they will be unmounted automatically after a certain
time (as configured).

Difference Between /etc/fstab and Autofs

(AutoMount)
As we know that /etc/fstab is used for permanent mounting of file systems but it
has advantage only if you have limited mount points connected to your
/etc/fstab file but if you are working on a large organisation and have so many
mount points linked to your /etc/fstab file then in that case your overall system’s
performance  gets effected.

But Autofs mounts the file systems on user’s demand. By default, the mount point
configured in Autofs is in unmounted state till the user access the mount point,
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unmounted state.

How to Configure AUTOFS in RHEL

Machine
Prerequisites
You should have sudo permissions as a user
autofs package should be installed on your machine

Configuration Files used in Autofs

/etc/auto.master
/etc/auto.misc  (name of this file can be anything)
/etc/sysconfig/autofs

Steps for configuring Autofs :

In our example we will mount the NFS share using autofs. NFS share ‘/db_backup‘
is exported from NFS Server (192.168.1.21). We are going to mount this nfs share on
CentOS 7 machine

1 : Edit the Master map file (/etc/auto.master)

[root@devopscheetah ~]# cat /etc/auto.master | grep -v “#”

/dbstuff /etc/auto.nfsdb –timeout=180
 /dbstuff should be a directory on your client system.
NFS Share will automatically umount after 180 seconds or 3 minutes if user
doesn’t access the share.
/etc/auto.nfsdb is our MAP File where we will configure the NFS server and Mount
details.

2 : Configure map file ‘/etc/auto.nfsdb’

[root@devopscheetah ~]# cat /etc/auto.nfsdb

db_backup -fstype=nfs,rw,soft,intr 192.168.1.21:/db_backup

db_backup is a directory where ‘192.168.1.21:/db_backup’ is mounted.

-fstype=nfs is the file system type & ‘rw,soft,intr’ are mount options.
‘192.168.1.21:/db_backup’ is nfs share location.

3 : Start the auotfs service

[root@devopscheetah ~]# systemctl start autofs.service

[root@devopscheetah ~]# systemctl enable autofs.service

4 : Now try to access the mount point

Mount point of nfs share will be ‘/dbstuff/db_backup’. When we try access the
mount point then autofs service will mount nfs share automatically and the
content of db_backup directory will be accessible.
 

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T ags: AutoFS , Autofs in RHEL

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