Is it possible to use autofs to mount a partition off of / rather than a directory under root (such as /foo/my_stuff_here)?

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Issue

  • Is it possible to use autofs to mount a partition off of / rather than a directory under root (such as /foo/my_stuff_here)?
  • Locating files with relative paths going up to the root filesystem (/) do not work correctly and return a "File not found" error

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • autofs

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