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From: "Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx.taylor@intel.com>
Subject: Re: making the mountpoints visible all the time
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:29:38 -0800
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To: Alexander Macdonald <alexandermacdonald@yahoo.com>
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Alexander Macdonald wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've currently got automount setup so that i can cd into a directory 
> like /mnt/someplace and someplace will be automatically created and 
> mounted... it would be quite usefull if that directory was allways 
> visible so that i could browse to it in gui applications... how do i do 
> that?

If you want it visible all the time, use /etc/fstab, not autofs.  Work 
is being done on leaving the directory structure before actually 
mounting it, but it is not finished yet.

Forrest
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