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====== Automount ======
Automount is the system that automatically mounts and unmounts network disks when the user requests access.

===== Important disks =====
Starting with Fedora 20 (2014), the most important disks ''/home'', ''/strw0'' and ''/software'', ar no longer hard-mounted, but configured through a special type of automount (through systemd, for those who like to know the details). Most of this is transparent to users. Just don't despair if you don't see ''/software'' mounted on your computer, it will be available as soon as you need something from it.

===== Data disks =====
All data disks of desktops and compute nodes are available under ''/net'': if machine ''eendracht'' has a local disk called ''/data1'', this can be accessed from other systems as ''/net/eendracht/data1''.
Note that ''/net/machinename'' will give a listing of disks on this machine, but ''/net'' will not contain a listing of all available computers.

===== Named disks =====
Named disks are available onder ''/disks'' . 
Disk names are usually related to the research groups, e.g. ''/cosmos*'' for the cosmology group.

There are some tools to make work with all of those disks somewhat easier:

  * **disks**: This gives an overview of all available disks, or all disks matching a pattern, e.g. ''disks chem'' to get a list of the ''/disks/chem*'' disks and the machines that serve them, or use e.g. ''disks schie'' to get a list of the disks on workstation schie.
  * **df**: The standard Unix command df has been modified to know about disk groups, so you can type e.g. ''df cosmos'' to get a report on disk space on all of the disks of the cosmology group.

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