Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- General Public License for more details.
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-->
<refnamediv>
<refname>systemd.automount</refname>
- <refpurpose>systemd automount configuration files</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Automount unit configuration</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
- <para><filename>systemd.automount</filename></para>
+ <para><filename><replaceable>automount</replaceable>.automount</filename></para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
automount specific configuration options are configured
in the [Automount] section.</para>
- <para>Automount units must be named after the file
- paths they reflect. Example: the automount point
- <filename>/home/lennart</filename> must be configured
- in a unit file
+ <para>Automount units must be named after the
+ automount directories they control. Example: the
+ automount point <filename>/home/lennart</filename>
+ must be configured in a unit file
<filename>home-lennart.automount</filename>. For
details about the escaping logic used to convert a
file system path to a unit name see
on-demand mounting as well as parallelized mounting of
file systems.</para>
+ <para>If an automount point is beneath another mount
+ point in the file system hierarchy a dependency
+ between both units is created automatically.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
specific to the [Automount] section of automount units
are the following:</para>
- <variablelist>
+ <variablelist class='unit-directives'>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Where=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes an absolute path
of a directory of the automount
point. If the automount point is not
- existing at time of the automount
+ existing at time that the automount
point is installed it is created. This
string must be reflected in the unit
file name. (See above.) This option is
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>DirectoryMode=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Directories of automount
- points (and any parent directories)
- are automatically created if
- needed. This option specifies the file
- system access mode used when creating
- these directories. Defaults to
+ <listitem><para>Directories of
+ automount points (and any parent
+ directories) are automatically created
+ if needed. This option specifies the
+ file system access mode used when
+ creating these directories. Takes an
+ access mode in octal
+ notation. Defaults to
0755.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>automount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>automount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.directives</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>