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pm-utils package

  1. Bug #506116
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 506116

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Wizzu (wizzu) wrote :

@MountainX: No, the "auto" option for /etc/fstab is different to "autofs".

The "auto option" mounts the filesystem in question automatically at boot time.

"autofs" is a program/daemon which mounts/unmounts NFS shares on-demand. It's an alternative way to mount NFS shares so to speak, and in this case you wouldn't have those NFS entries listed in /etc/fstab at all. "autofs" control files are /etc/auto.master and some other /etc/auto.* files (user defined).

One of the reasons I started using autofs was to get a working suspend, because mounted NFS shares don't seem to work very well with suspend/resume...