NAME

       systemd.automount - Automount unit configuration

SYNOPSIS

       automount.automount

DESCRIPTION

       A unit configuration file whose name ends in .automount encodes information about a file system automount
       point controlled and supervised by systemd.

       This man page lists the configuration options specific to this unit type. See systemd.unit(5) for the
       common options of all unit configuration files. The common configuration items are configured in the
       generic [Unit] and [Install] sections. The automount specific configuration options are configured in the
       [Automount] section.

       Automount units must be named after the automount directories they control. Example: the automount point
       /home/lennart must be configured in a unit file home-lennart.automount. For details about the escaping
       logic used to convert a file system path to a unit name see systemd.unit(5).

       For each automount unit file a matching mount unit file (see systemd.mount(5) for details) must exist
       which is activated when the automount path is accessed. Example: if an automount unit
       home-lennart.automount is active and the user accesses /home/lennart the mount unit home-lennart.mount
       will be activated.

       Automount units may be used to implement on-demand mounting as well as parallelized mounting of file
       systems.

       If an automount point is beneath another mount point in the file system hierarchy a dependency between
       both units is created automatically.

FSTAB

       Automount units may either be configured via unit files, or via /etc/fstab (see fstab(5) for details).

       For details how systemd parses /etc/fstab see systemd.mount(5).

       If an automount point is configured in both /etc/fstab and a unit file the configuration in the latter
       takes precedence.

OPTIONS

       Automount files must include an [Automount] section, which carries information about the file system
       automount points it supervises. The options specific to the [Automount] section of automount units are
       the following:

       Where=
           Takes an absolute path of a directory of the automount point. If the automount point is not existing
           at time that the automount point is installed it is created. This string must be reflected in the
           unit file name. (See above.) This option is mandatory.

       DirectoryMode=
           Directories of automount points (and any parent directories) are automatically created if needed.
           This option specifies the file system access mode used when creating these directories. Takes an
           access mode in octal notation. Defaults to 0755.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), systemctl(8), systemd.unit(5), systemd.mount(5), mount(8), automount(8),
       systemd.directives(7)