[ILUG] How to mount a directory?

[Brendan Minish]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 15:55 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:


> If I just add it to /etc/fstab
> there is an inordinate delay if alfred cannot be seen.


Use the autofs to mount it when you access it and it will also un-mount
it when done. This avoids the need to do it at login but makes it
available (if present) when you try to access it 

you can also symlink the directory from the /net dir (possibly assuming
redhat like distros.) to where you want 

ln -s /net/alfred/common /common 

now 
ls /common 
will automount the share and do the needful 

some help on the autofs auto-mounter here for redhat like distros,
others will presumably be very similar 

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-nfs-client-config-autofs.html

.brendan