I finally started using autofs for my network mounts!
In the past, I wrote about my ripped-off myautomount program which was a bash rewrite of a Go tool from TridentOS.
One main use of autofs is to automount network locations. I of course have my own nfs server and several mounts that are useful on all my clients. Here is what I set up for myself:
File /etc/autofs.internal-wireless.
* -fstype=nfs,noatime,rw,nosuid,rsize=262144,wsize=262144,soft server3:/var/server3/shares/&
And file /etc/auto.master.d/internal-wireless.autofs.
/net /etc/autofs.internal-wireless --timeout=5
I also set the user's xfe bookmarks to include /net/$USERNAME manually. I don't currently use nfs-mounted home directories, but each user has a primary export on the file server. For future reference, an Xfe bookmark is simply in file ~/.config/xfe/xferc:
[bookmarks] BOOKMARK1=/net/${USERNAME}
Where $USERNAME is of course fully evaluated already, so /mnt/bgstack15.
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