Using AutoFS - RHCSA v9 Review

RHCSA on RHEL 9 Series:
Configuring AutoFS with our NFS server from the previous video.
Going over direct and indirect maps with easy to follow examples.

#autofs #rhcsa #linux

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[mariozamora]

Hey, thank you. I would recommend using the dropping directory instead. /etc/auto.master.d/ with individual configurations per master mapping file. This helps with segmentation which helps with maintenance, automation, etc.

[techtechuw]

Thank you for an excellent guide! Initially i couldn't get it working, but then I realized that I didn't have nfs-common (nfs-utils) installed. After installing that and mounting manually at first, all went well.

[teridon]

Very well done video. I'll add a little tip: at 8:20, you "cd .." and then "cd fun". I think you could have just done "cd ." (dot) or "cd ../fun". I'm all about efficiency! 😀

[huyvole]

There is something extremely magical about the "in-direct" type: data is only present when we access it intentionally, otherwise we just see an empty directory.

[davidchang]

Hi. Are u doing this on the server or client or both ?

[christophmeinel]

Can you explain when I should do a direct and indirect map?

[mohammadwaqas]

Hi, could you plz make a small video on mounting the user's home directory on the remote host with autofs and then change user password.

[sofiaknyazeva]

Interesting, maybe someday it will come handy. Subbed.

[chrisy.]

Hey, thanks a lot for the video... I follow up the steps exactly same but fails on the indirect map.... the wired thing is dir "/mnt/nfs/" exits, but "fun" sub-dir is gone after mounting... any idea which step is wrong?

[marcocarbone]

Hi, can you do a tutorial to explain how to configure autofs to automount a remote directory with user and password?

[davidnth]

hi, I'm trying to use autofs to mount automatically a folder path /mnt/sdb2 to a partition /dev/sdb2 (which is formatted by ext4), but it doesn't work so far. Could you please review my way is correct or not?
# vi /etc/auto.master
/mnt/sdb2 /ect/auto.sdb2
# vi /etc/auto.sdb2
sdb2 -fstype=ext4 :/dev/sdb2
# systemctl restart auto fs
I've checked with cmd 'df' but it doesn't show any item 'sdb2'.
And when I created a file test inside the /mnt/sdb2, it shows error "Permission denied"
Did I do it wrong?

[atotalidiot]

You did a great job of explaining but I still absolutely hate autofs.
whoever decided this needed to be on the

[BrendonEkoko]

This is actually an awful video for someone learning this, just keep it simple. Use the material from whatever booked you used and simply translate it without adding too much