Re: [gentoo-user] autofs for a symlink - howto

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 02/24/2019 06:26:51 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a lot of symlinks in my home directory like
>
> $HOME/Python  -> /Src/Python
>
> Now, I'd like to not mount /Src on default.
>
> How can I set up my system (using autofs ?) to automatically mount
> /Src if such a symlink is accessed
> like   cd    $HOME/Python
>

Since I didn't find a similar configuration on the net, I've come up  
with the following solution (after some trial and error)

First, I've replaced all symlinks by empty directories of the same name.

My     /etc/autofs/auto.master      contains (the only uncommented line)

/-    /etc/autofs/auto.local

and /etc/autofs/auto.local contains, e.g.

/Src      -fstype=ext4,exec,suid,noatime      :/dev/sdc3

/home/jarausch/Python      -fstype=bind,exec,suid,noatime    
:/Src/Src/Python


I hope this helps others,
Helmut