CentOS - Jul 2015 - Mounting NFS file systems via Nautilus on CentOS 6

Why not just use autofs and have it mounted on demand?

jh

On 11/07/15 18:10, John Hodrien wrote:
> Why not just use autofs and have it mounted on demand?
You probably didn't read my post properly.

Part of what I'm saying is that autofs is set up out-of-the box to mount 
the filesystem. However, to access the area, I have to type in the full 
path all the time, which is rather tedios. I'd like to bookmark the 
location, but the problem is that Nautilus apparently keeps accessing 
all bookmarked folders to check status or something, which in practice 
means autofs will try to keep the filesystem mounted at all times - 
which I don't want.


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Looks like Nautilus is periodically 'stat'-ing the bookmark location.

How about making a softlink to the target dir in your home directory, then
bookmarking the link in nautilus.  Hopefully Nautilus will stat the link
and not the target then.

K

On Sun, 12 Jul 2015, Toralf Lund wrote:
> On 11/07/15 18:10, John Hodrien wrote:
>>  Why not just use autofs and have it mounted on demand?
>
> You probably didn't read my post properly.
Sorry about that, I clearly missed quite a lot of your post.
> Part of what I'm saying is that autofs is set up out-of-the box to
mount the
> filesystem. However, to access the area, I have to type in the full path
all
> the time, which is rather tedios. I'd like to bookmark the location,
but the
> problem is that Nautilus apparently keeps accessing all bookmarked folders
> to check status or something, which in practice means autofs will try to
> keep the filesystem mounted at all times - which I don't want.
I think a symlink is your only option, if you can't cope with autofs
mounting
it when you don't want it (or failing to mount it).  Depending on your
reasons
for not liking it trying to mount, you may find BROWSE_MODE with autofs
satisfies Nautilus when the mount is unavailable.

jh