From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 18 23:40:17 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 2DCE516A401 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:40:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from northg@shaw.ca) Received: from pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC84443D45 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:40:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from northg@shaw.ca) Received: from pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.180]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IWC00152KF41T40@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:40:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.151]) by pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IWC00G1CKF35RF0@pd3mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:40:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([24.85.136.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IWC00AHIKF3WND0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:40:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.1.385 [268.2.5/284]); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:40:40 -0800 Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:40:40 -0800 From: Graham North In-reply-to: <20060318225547.GD74682@dan.emsphone.com> To: Dan Nelson Message-id: <441C9A78.10809@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=======AVGMAIL-441C9A785C67=======" X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <441BC12C.3070708@shaw.ca> <20060318225547.GD74682@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 23:40:17 -0000 --=======AVGMAIL-441C9A785C67======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --=======AVGMAIL-441C9A785C67======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: "AVG certification" No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.5/284 - Release Date: 3/17/2006 --=======AVGMAIL-441C9A785C67=======--