id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
2458	Automounting should be explained better	alexander@…	bdubbs@…	"There are some issues with the http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/autofs.html page.

1) It doesn't tell the reader about the symlink idiom:

/media/remote_share -> /var/lib/autofs/remote_share

The issue is that the remote share is invisible (i.e., doesn't appear in the file manager or in the ""ls"" output) until it is automounted by autofs, while a symlink is always visible.

2) It tells the users to mount autofs on /media, which prevents them from creating subdirectories of /media manually, and may interfere with HAL.

3) It doesn't tell that the modern way to automount removable storage is with HAL (upon detection), but the only way to automount network shares (on access) is with autofs."	task	closed	normal	6.3	BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed