Not sure if this is possible but seems like it should be.

For user home directories we have LVM snapshots being made that are stored in another location. (yes I know there are better ways, but this is the only option currently)

I'd like automounter to present these files in a .snapshot/monday .snaphsot/tuesday and so on in each users home folder. But I can't seem to get the logic down.

In the /etc/auto.master file this is what I have:

 /home/$USER/.snapshot /etc/auto.home

Then in the /etc/auto.home file I have.

 monday :/dev/filesarea/mondaysnapshot
 tuesday :/dev/filesarea/tuesdaysnapshot

Thoughts? Is this even possible or is there something missing? Ideally I'd like the mount point to go directly to the users folder but happy to get it even to just eh base of the snapshot as indicated in my example.

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aren't you missing the filesystem type in your auto.home? This is a cool idea and it should be possible. If it isnt the auto.home config issue what does automountd -v output when you try to cd to the .snapshot/... dir? – polynomial Oct 6 '11 at 2:30
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