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AUTOFS(8) System Manager's Manual AUTOFS(8)
autofs - Service control for the automounter
If a SysV init script system is being used:
@initdir@/autofs start|stop|restart|reload|status
or if the systemd init system is being used:
systemctl start|stop|restart|reload|status autofs.service
autofs controls the operation of the automount(8) daemon(s)
running on the Linux system. Usually autofs is invoked at system
boot time with the start parameter and at shutdown time with the
stop parameter. Service control actions can also be manually
invoked by the system administrator to shut down, restart, reload
or obtain service status.
autofs will consult a configuration file @mapdir@/auto.master (see
auto.master(5)) by default to find mount points on the system. For
each of those mount points automount(8) will mount and start a
thread, with the appropriate parameters, to manage the mount
point.
@initdir@/autofs reload or systemctl autofs.service reload will
check the current auto.master map against the current automount
managed mounts. It will terminate those daemons or threads
(depending on autofs version) whose entries have been removed, re-
read the automount maps for entries that have changed and start
new daemons or threads for entries that have been added.
If an indirect map is modified then the change will become
effective immediately. If an indirect map uses the browse option,
the master map contains direct mount maps or the auto.master map
is modified then the autofs service control reload action must be
rerun to activate the changes.
However, if a map entry has offsets and is currently in use the
offset mounts cannot be updated due to potential mount
dependencies. In this case the map entry offsets will not be
updated until after the map entry has expired.
@initdir@/autofs status or systemctl status autofs.service will
display the status of, automount(8), running or not. When using
the systemd init system the status output includes somewhat more
information related to the service status.
systemctl(1) has more functions than the actions mentioned here,
see systemctl(1) for more information.
automount(8), autofs(5), autofs.conf(5), auto.master(5),
autofs_ldap_auth.conf(5), systemctl(1).
This manual page was written by Christoph Lameter
<[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. Edited by H.
Peter Anvin <[email protected]> and Ian Kent <[email protected]>.
This page is part of the autofs (automount) project. Information
about the project can be found at ⟨http://www.autofs.org/⟩. If
you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
[email protected]. This page was obtained from the project's
upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/storage/autofs/autofs.git⟩ on
2025-08-11. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2024-08-14.) If you discover
any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page,
or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a
mail to [email protected]
9 Sep 1997 AUTOFS(8)
Pages that refer to this page: autofs(5), auto.master(5), automount(8)
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