From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 18 22:55:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10DF16A420 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:55:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DAEC43D45 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:55:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k2IMtlMi095358; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:55:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:55:47 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Graham North Message-ID: <20060318225547.GD74682@dan.emsphone.com> References: <441BC12C.3070708@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <441BC12C.3070708@shaw.ca> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unfamiliar mount points /net /host X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:55:51 -0000 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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com