Manually mounting and unmounting devices such as external USB drives or remote NFS or Samba shares can be tedious tasks to perform when administering a machine. The autofs daemon can help us automatically mounting a filesystem when needed and umounting it after a specified period of time. In this tutorial we will see the basic concept related to the automounter, and how to configure it.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-configure-the-autofs-daemon-on-centos-7-rhel-7