Because of a show-stopping bug in Debian autofs 4, I just upgraded to autofs5.
It is not honoring the timeout option in my `auto.master` file:

```
/var/autofs/removable /etc/auto.removable --timeout=2

```

I use this map for thumb drives and so on; I don't want a general default timeout of 2 seconds.

I did some digging and although the `--timeout` option worked in autofs 4, and it appears in some examples on the Web, it is not actually sanctioned (or even mentioned) in the documentation for the `auto.master` file. So I don't feel I can report the problem as a bug.

**How can I get autofs5 to timeout after 2 seconds only on designated filesystems?**

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Update: I am using a Debian-packaged autofs5, version 5.0.4-3.2.