unfamiliar mount points /net /host

[Graham North]

Hi Dan:
Thank you!  I do not have another machine set up as an NFS but may do so 
at some future time.   It also gives me comfort to know that they were 
not put there by someone else....
Cheers, Graham/


Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (Mar 18), Graham North said:
>  
>
>>I just noticed a couple of additional mount points after running df.
>>They are /net and /hosts .  They were not there previously, I think
>>they were created by automount which seems to have been added as a
>>dependcy after doing a cvsup and ports upgrade.  Can someone confirm
>>this and/or explain their purpose(s).
>>    
>>
>
>Those are amd mount points; if you have another machine set up as an
>NFS server, you can cd into /net/serverhostname and it will
>automatically mount the remote server's shared filesystems and unmount
>them when you cd out of the directory.  /hosts does the exact same
>thing.  Amd is part of the base system, so is unaffected by port
>upgrades.  Those directories were most likely always there; you just
>never noticed them.
>
>  
>

-- 
Kindness can be infectious - try it.

Graham North
Vancouver, BC
www.soleado.ca


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