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AUTOMOUNT(8)		    System Manager's Manual		  AUTOMOUNT(8)

NAME
       automount -- update autofs mounts

SYNOPSIS
       automount [-D name=value] [-L] [-c] [-f]	[-o options] [-v] [-u]

DESCRIPTION
       When   called   without	options,  the  automount  command  parses  the
       auto_master(5) configuration file and any direct	maps  that  it	refer-
       ences,  and  mounts  or unmounts	autofs(5) filesystems to match.	 These
       options are available:

       -D  Define a variable.  It is only useful with -L.

       -L  Do not mount	or unmount anything.  Instead parse auto_master(5) and
	   any direct maps, then print them to standard	output.	  When	speci-
	   fied	more than once,	all the	maps, including	indirect ones, will be
	   parsed  and	shown.	 This  is  useful when debugging configuration
	   problems.

       -c  Flush caches, discarding possibly stale information	obtained  from
	   maps	and directory services.

       -f  Force unmount, to be	used with -u.

       -o  Specify  mount  options to be used along with the ones specified in
	   the maps.  It is only useful	with -L.

       -u  Try to unmount filesystems  mounted	by  automountd(8).   autofs(5)
	   mounts are not unmounted.  To unmount all autofs mounts, use	umount
	   -At autofs.

       -v  Increase verbosity.

EXIT STATUS
       The automount utility exits 0 on	success, and >0	if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES
       Unmount all filesystems mounted by automountd(8):
	     automount -u

SEE ALSO
       auto_master(5), autofs(5), automountd(8), autounmountd(8)

HISTORY
       The automount command appeared in FreeBSD 10.1.

AUTHORS
       The    automount	   was	  developed   by   Edward   Tomasz   Napierala
       <trasz@FreeBSD.org> under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.

FreeBSD	14.3		       November	22, 2014		  AUTOMOUNT(8)

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