Who asked for /misc anyway ?

[John Summerfied]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 1/23/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
>>Why is autofs trying to mount these directories?
> 
> 
> becauase both directories are defined as active in the default
> configuration for autofs:
> /etc/auto.master
> which references
> /etc/auto.net
> /etc/auto.misc
> 
> 
>>What would they be used for if he (or she) succeeded?
> 
> to automount things as needed at a systemwide level.  Potentially very
> useful on multiple user systems on large unix-y networks with nfs
> shares. Marginally less useful on desktop oriented systems with
> primarily a single user logged in at one time.


I rather like to use it to mount ISOs on demand.
S1              -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,loop \ 
:/var/local/mirrors/linux/SUSE/10.0/i386/ISO/SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD1.iso



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